Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Stro]

Blade Runner fucking sucks, dawg

[Great Rumbler]

You're a nice guy, Stro, a real nice guy. But you and me, man, we’re done professionally.

[Stro]

Visually great, I think we can all agree on that.

Acting is dead fish bullshit, the leads have negative chemistry, the plot and pace is garbage, all versions of the movie fucking suck. Ridley is a hack! Ridley should have become a full time DP 40 years ago instead of a director.

[ToxicAdam]

I never got the love for the original BR either. I think people fall in love with the aesthetic so much that they overlook the flaws.

[Great Rumbler]

stop bullying me

[Stro]

stop bullying me

You're a bad dog. Not a good boy.

[shosta]

So this is gonna be one of those opinions that gets Shosta riled up but when I watched 2001 during my film buff phase I thought it was pretty zzz. But then I didn’t watch it high off my ass. I love Kubrick stuff like FMJ and The Shining and Clockwork Orange but 2001 was a bit too artsy for my tastes. Not saying it’s a bad movie, just wasn’t for me.

I don't understand ANYTHING you write in this thread!!!

[Nintex]

"Gentlemen, don't fight in here. This is the war room!"

[Tasty]

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3515705/15-years-later-final-fight-freddy-vs-jason-remains-one-horrors-greatest-gifts-fans/

[Stro]

[BlueTsunami]

Speaking of 2001, just bought a ticket to a 70mm IMAX showing near me for Thursday

[Huff]

Saw the final war of the planet of apes movie. Solid. I think. feel like I enjoyed the previous 2 more, but that could have just been timing and I saw the 3rd one years after and forgot some plot points.

Feels like they set up some points to redeem some of the human soldiers but then doubled down on them being "bad". Ceasers dying at the end didn't really have the same umph as I think they wanted.

I dunno. 8/10 for cool action.

[chronovore]

Blade Runner fucking sucks, dawg

Go sit outside and think about what you've done.

[Stro]

Blade Runner fucking sucks, dawg

Go sit outside and think about what you've done.

I'll happily go sit outside and think about how I've done your mom

[Mandark]

I didn't think either 2001 or BR was that great when I saw them, but that was years ago and I haven't rewatched either yet.

[shosta]

Anybody got one of those movies where a detective with character flaws gets obsessed with the case, gets suspended while cutting corners, but can't let it go and solves it anyway?

[Mandark]

Zootopia.

[Joe Molotov]

[Bebpo]

So this is gonna be one of those opinions that gets Shosta riled up but when I watched 2001 during my film buff phase I thought it was pretty zzz. But then I didn’t watch it high off my ass. I love Kubrick stuff like FMJ and The Shining and Clockwork Orange but 2001 was a bit too artsy for my tastes. Not saying it’s a bad movie, just wasn’t for me.

I don't understand ANYTHING you write in this thread!!!

See, I used to keep some of my opinions to myself. But now that you told me, I'm posting them all just for you 

[Tasty]

The Mansion (La Manoir)

Fun little French horror/comedy that feels like a trip back to the early 2000s American culture, from the characters to the plot to the overall vibe. It was actually sort of refreshing even though if it was in English and came out back in the day, it'd be absolutely be direct to DVD and likely something you'd gladly skip over at the video store. But like I said, it has its appeal these days.

2 / 5


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Should have watched before Bore-con. Fun but aimless. I also didn't totally grasp the performance Depp was trying, felt a bit tryhard to me.

4 / 5


Beyond the Black Rainbow

Frustrating because you can tell there's a spark, but it's stretched much too thin to sustain the movie. Some pretty haunting scenes and ideas though, and obviously the production design was great. Acting was iffier, and after a while I started to get annoyed with the "music." If there's individual tracks and not just a single 93 minute song I'd be surprised, because it all sounds exactly the same. Good for building tension, but way overused.

2 / 5

[Assimilate]

Beyond the Black Rainbow

Frustrating because you can tell there's a spark, but it's stretched much too thin to sustain the movie. Some pretty haunting scenes and ideas though, and obviously the production design was great. Acting was iffier, and after a while I started to get annoyed with the "music." If there's individual tracks and not just a single 93 minute song I'd be surprised, because it all sounds exactly the same. Good for building tension, but way overused.

2 / 5

The soundtrack was excellent i thought and the imagery really good. It's promising for the director and hopefully he can improve his skills.

The trailer still amazing.

[Tasty]

Beyond the Black Rainbow

Frustrating because you can tell there's a spark, but it's stretched much too thin to sustain the movie. Some pretty haunting scenes and ideas though, and obviously the production design was great. Acting was iffier, and after a while I started to get annoyed with the "music." If there's individual tracks and not just a single 93 minute song I'd be surprised, because it all sounds exactly the same. Good for building tension, but way overused.

2 / 5

The soundtrack was excellent i thought and the imagery really good. It's promising for the director and hopefully he can improve his skills.

For a directorial debut it's absolutely promising and if the trailer didn't do it, I'd be looking forward to Mandy even more now.

There's not one sequence in the film I can remember the music for. That's not the case for my favorite synth-based horror films.

[Stro]

The Mansion (La Manoir)

Fun little French horror/comedy that feels like a trip back to the early 2000s American culture, from the characters to the plot to the overall vibe. It was actually sort of refreshing even though if it was in English and came out back in the day, it'd be absolutely be direct to DVD and likely something you'd gladly skip over at the video store. But like I said, it has its appeal these days.

2 / 5


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Should have watched before Bore-con. Fun but aimless. I also didn't totally grasp the performance Depp was trying, felt a bit tryhard to me.

4 / 5


Beyond the Black Rainbow

Frustrating because you can tell there's a spark, but it's stretched much too thin to sustain the movie. Some pretty haunting scenes and ideas though, and obviously the production design was great. Acting was iffier, and after a while I started to get annoyed with the "music." If there's individual tracks and not just a single 93 minute song I'd be surprised, because it all sounds exactly the same. Good for building tension, but way overused.

2 / 5

You can tell what he's going for if you've ever seen a Hunter S. Thompson video, particularly the ones where he's hammered and shooting guns on his property, and if you've read any of his writing. He was just doing an impression, which is what Bill Murray did for Where The Buffalo Roam, and neither fully ever dropped the character from their psyche. It's pretty weird, really.

[Assimilate]

Yeah if you never seen a video of Hunter S Thompson than yeah maybe Depps character would be lost to you.

[Assimilate]

hated the 15min of Barry Lyndon I saw before I immediately returned the disc

You stupid fucking idiot you go back and rent that movie right the fuck now.

The movie is gorgeous.

[Tasty]

I've seen a few vids of Thompson over the years but Depp felt like a caricature than impersonation to me. But I guess that's what he does.

[shosta]

you might think that's a caricature but here's a video of hunter s. thompson and his neighbor exchanging gunfire because of a dispute over some cows

[Assimilate]

you might think that's a caricature but here's a video of hunter s. thompson and his neighbor exchanging gunfire because of a dispute over some cows

 

[Tasty]

I know, it was linked on this site a few weeks ago.

[Stro]

hated the 15min of Barry Lyndon I saw before I immediately returned the disc

You stupid fucking idiot you go back and rent that movie right the fuck now.

The movie is gorgeous.

nah

[Assimilate]

hated the 15min of Barry Lyndon I saw before I immediately returned the disc

You stupid fucking idiot you go back and rent that movie right the fuck now.

The movie is gorgeous.

nah

whatever.

movie is a masterpiece. your loss.

[Stro]

I don't care how pretty it looks. I hate the setting.

[chronovore]

Blade Runner fucking sucks, dawg

Go sit outside and think about what you've done.

I'll happily go sit outside and think about how I've done your mom

Gigolo to the elderly is a good career move for a man of your limited abilities. Enjoy the beef curtains among the taint waddles.

[Bebpo]

Ghost Stories

Eh.

I enjoyed the bookshelf tale, but the ghost stories themselves were so undercooked it was hard to care. 1/3 are basically just "noises and then a ghost pops up. The end", the 2nd one seemed kinda fun in an Evil Dead Sam Raimi way with goofy goat-man and the kid from End of the F**king World being totally hilarious freaking out, but like 1 and 3 it ends way too early and is not very satisfying. The movie felt like a bunch of potential that never brings it to fruition. It was ok, but felt kinda empty imo.

[Momo]

https://www.magsreader.com/robert-downey-jr-start-preps-for-sherlock-holmes-3/

[Stro]

Blade Runner fucking sucks, dawg

Go sit outside and think about what you've done.

I'll happily go sit outside and think about how I've done your mom

Gigolo to the elderly is a good career move for a man of your limited abilities. Enjoy the beef curtains among the taint waddles.

Make comments about your mom's labia and think you're insulting me, brehs

[Purrp Skirrp]

Visually great, I think we can all agree on that.

Acting is dead fish bullshit, the leads have negative chemistry, the plot and pace is garbage, all versions of the movie fucking suck. Ridley is a hack! Ridley should have become a full time DP 40 years ago instead of a director.

Re: your parents' sex tape.

Visually great, I think we can all agree on that.

Acting is dead fish bullshit, the leads have negative chemistry, the plot and pace is garbage, all versions of the movie the fucking sucks. Your dad is a hack! Stro's mom should have used protection doing full time DP 30 years ago instead of recklessly spawning a wrestling stan.

 

[Bebpo]

New Saulnier woooo

Still sucks about True Detective S3

[Stro]

I wish every day she had used protection 30 years ago tbh

[Spieler1]

I agree with the shit acting Peak cringe is thirsty Ford assaulting the robot lady while porno-esque music plays. The sequel is better because it has the audiovisuals plus good acting.

[Stro]

Harrison Ford is better in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull than he was in Blade Runner

[VomKriege]

It's all about Hauer (and the visuals), really.

[Tasty]

It's all about Hauer (and the visuals), really.

TBH that's all I get out of it. And that's fine. It's an OK movie.

BR2049 is more traditional and modern, but not enough that it betrays the original. I also think it's a better film on all fronts, except maybe "nuance" (whatever that means.)

BR: 3 / 5
BR2049: 4 / 5

[Stro]

I'd take piece of shit detective Deckard and Roy fucking Batty acting over K's blank stares as his waifu goes all moe all over the place any day of the week.

Is BR2049 a good movie? yeah. But the villains are two dimensional at best, the plot is all about who or what is actually special while some dumb war uprising is brewing in the background, and has a thousand times the pointless lingering people claim the first had. Doesn't help that the so called detective work has to be spelled out for you over and over and over. BR2049 is absolutely the weaker movie and all of it's strong aspects are derivative of the original, and I still don't see the point in it existing. Preferring BR2049 to the original is like preferring 2010 to 2001. The preference mostly stems not wanting a slower paced, dare I say nuanced flick to what essentially is more conventional hollywood storytelling.

Call me a snob if you want, I'll forever die on this hill.

Perhaps 40 years later sequels aren't always the best ideas

[Joe Molotov]

You're an OK poster.

[Stro]

Ridley Scott, king of nuance

[BlueTsunami]

I prefered seeing K slowly losing his mind over Deckard sort of cooly walking though that world. The OG Blade Runner is slick and has a wonderful vibe but BR2049 stuck with me in deeper ways.

[Tasty]

Ridley Scott, king of nuance

[Tasty]

Spoiler: it wasn't revealed in the sequel one way or the other.

[Spieler1]

It's all about Hauer (and the visuals), really.

 

Vangelis 

[Stro]

Man have you ever listened to the commentaries for Prometheus/Covenant? The bullshit he's spewing about how grand he thinks his idea are is 

"No one ever though to ask the question: Who created this alien, and what if it was a robot?"

That's not a direct quote, but he says something very similar to that multiple times during Covenant. He seemed a little more full of himself and his idea for Prometheus and realized he was making some bullshit with Covenant and takes it down a notch, but it's still hilarious, especially as he was for sure drinking during both and once in a while lets loose and gets excited over blood and guts like a teenager


Tbh I enjoyed Prometheus and Covenant but they're some of the dumbest "smart" movies around

[Tasty]

Anyway, I'm kind of burned out on this subject and know I'm the minority here.

Feel free to also step off that Harrison Ford-shaped cross while you're at it. BR isn't lacking for praise, even here.

[Tasty]

Now, BR2049 hate on the other hand is pretty unique, but comes off as tryhardy contrarianism.

[Stro]

Dude I'm not disputing that the man is insane. I'm mostly referring to his very first two movies and you're bringing up decades later quotes. He probably was always crazy so I'm not sure what changed since then, be that as it may I would describe Alien and Blade runner as two fantastic movies that knew not to show too much and I don't know what Ridley Scotts recent hijinks has to do with that. As, again, I agree that he's a weird asshole who does hilarious shit on the regular.

Anyway, I'm kind of burned out on this subject and know I'm the minority here. Doesn't help that the original is a divisive movie in and of itself. So I'll stop the care posting for now.

I wouldn't say Alien is particularly nuanced about, well, anything. It's just not as hilariously overbearing with its messages and themes as Prometheus and Covenant. It benefits greatly from just being a sci-fi monster movie as opposed to delving into ancient astronaut theory and panspermia and creation and god and a bunch of half baked allegories to mythology and the Bible and whatever drunk idea he had on the set or suggested to him at the time. The super long doc that came with Prometheus explains everything so perfectly: Ridley was drinking on set constantly, even in editing, and was amenable to literally any idea pitched to him That's how it went from direct Alien prequel to prequel set in the same universe but not actually connected to prequel set in the same universe but kind of connected but some things are different because why not lolz

[Assimilate]

Why are people dogging Ridley Scott? Most directors would kill to have a filmography like that even with the occasional turd.

And for the record i enjoyed Prometheus. The problem with the movie wasn't completely Scott, it was the fucking writing/writer that he trusted.

[Tasty]

Why are people dogging Ridley Scott? Most directors would kill to have a filmography like that even with the occasional turd.

And for the record i enjoyed Prometheus. The problem with the movie wasn't completely Scott, it was the fucking writing/writer that he trusted.

I read the original Spaihts script front-to-back. It's definitely a lot better but it still shares a surprising number of flaws with the final film. After reading it I actually hated Lindelof a little less.

In an ideal timeline, we would have gotten Scott/Spaihts' Alien: Engineers, then Blomkamp's Alien 5, and then a massively improved (somehow) version of Covenant (ideally as Alien 6 and not another prequel, but could still feature Fass obviously. In fact Covenant only needs to be a prequel if you're following directly on from Prometheus, but not the original Alien: Engineers.)

[Tasty]

What annoys me most with Prometheus/Covenant is the backtracking.

"Prometheus isn't an Alien prequel... now it is!"

"Prometheus is starting a new line of films that are in the Alien universe, but won't use 'Alien' in the title!" <Alien: Paradise Lost is announced, then renamed Alien: Covenant>

"This new line of films is about all these big ideas about our place in the universe, our makers, etc." <Covenant jettisons all that and kills Shaw offscreen for no reason (literally no reason, Noomi Rapace starred in a fucking web short that connected the two movies so she's obviously game)>

Etc.

I think I would have enjoyed Prometheus 2 more than Covenant, which I never would have thought a few years ago.

[MMaRsu]

Just saw the movie Upgrade which I think was fantastic. The story is about a man who gets into a car accident with his wife and becomes a quadriplegic. Through some experimental treatment he gets a computer implant/chip which enables him to walk again, but at what price?

I won't give away too much about this movie, I'd say don't watch any trailers or shit ( I didn't ) and it will certainly surprise you.

A fantastic dark scifi action flick with some slight thriller/horror influences.

[Purrp Skirrp]

BR's an uneven film and at times a slog to sit through for all the reasons Stro states.
It's absolutely carried by its audiovisuals: the synth OST, SFX and miniature work, world building and setting, the neo-noir styling.
Some of the themes resonate with me, but they come across a little half-baked (hence all the subsequent edits/cuts).
It doesn't suck, its influence is undeniable, but I'd rather listen to the soundtrack than watch it again.

Barry Lyndon tho

Yes, it's beautifully shot but beyond that it's a sweeping epic detailing the rise and fall of a doomed, self-destructive protagonist.
Don't let the setting deter you; the movie's so much more than that. It's like passing on Raging Bull because you aren't into boxing.

[VomKriege]

Why are people dogging Ridley Scott? Most directors would kill to have a filmography like that even with the occasional turd.

And for the record i enjoyed Prometheus. The problem with the movie wasn't completely Scott, it was the fucking writing/writer that he trusted.

I think I would sum it up like this :
- He started making mediocre films pretty fast (Do you remember Someone to Watch Over Me ? A lot of people sure don't and it's not unwarranted...) and you never know if with every new film you'll get a decent, bad or straight up shitty one (I thought American Gangster was the lamest thing ever). There doesn't seem to be much rhyme and reason to it (it's not linear decline or evolving through different stages) and even when the films have obvious qualities and are influential (Kingdom of Heaven, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator) I find they always come short as a whole.
- His weird insistence of trying to "own", force feed us with his ideas (and convince us they  were always the one and only plan)) and constantly iterate with more fluff to tack on his two most major works gives the vibe the guy doesn't really get the message or meaning (plus weirdly insecure) of the films. It gives flesh to the idea he's a talented formalist (though very hit and miss, didn't find Prometheus cinematography gorgeous but I won't deny it had better production design than your average Hollywood fare) but an incomplete filmmaker (or not very adept at the story part). Which would explain why his movies are all around the place in terms of quality. I'd say the dreadful shlock that was Hannibal is another piece of evidence he doesn't have the best of handle on what makes the source material great.

But sure, for all its flaws, I'd rather take someone like him who at least has character (occasionally going for odd choice of subject matter) than... I dunno, JJ Abrams or Ron Howard.