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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38640 on:** April 14, 2021, 08:52:28 PM »

I'm a half-hour into The Kid Detective - this is really really good. I'm invested in mysteries and the comedy is spot on. Also, it was funded by Canada.

Bebpo · « **Reply #38641 on:** April 14, 2021, 09:09:44 PM »

Reading up on Spontaneous reviews, I see a lot of reviewers saying the movie is a metaphor for school shootings. Which makes a lot of sense in retrospect and tonally it fits more that way. I should have realized this when the adults offer "thoughts and prayers" to the exploding kids.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38642 on:** April 14, 2021, 10:10:12 PM »

That was like a 10/10 movie for me. Got really dark. Also, it's the same premise as Venture Bros, as in a 60's kid's comic book character becoming a middle-aged failure, but in a live-action movie which is awesome.

Speaking of school shootings, I watched The kid Detective because I was listening to Adam Brody on Comedy Bang bang plug it and he mentioned that the director of Kid Detective also did a movie that turns into a school shooting at the end. Will watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirties

Transhuman · « **Reply #38643 on:** April 15, 2021, 12:04:50 AM »

It sounds like Mystery Team only dark

Tasty · « **Reply #38644 on:** April 15, 2021, 09:02:23 AM »

Screw everything else he's doing DerrickComedy needs to come back

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #38645 on:** April 17, 2021, 12:27:59 AM »

Been watching the Leprechaun series, just finished Leprechaun in The Hood.

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What the fuck were they thinking with the space movie.

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Nintex · « **Reply #38646 on:** April 17, 2021, 05:30:07 AM »

Watched VICE yesterday a good watch but not everything works as well as they intended.

Rummy and Dick are portrayed perfectly.

The film is structured weird though and they left out a few things you would think are significant.
For example, the Florida recount is implied but they didn't have a scene where Stone and the bois are harassing the counters.
There's events that you don't see the outcome of and events that are missing the wider context. The Big Short was better structured.

Overall I feel like it would've worked better as a series as the film is already structured as such.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38647 on:** April 17, 2021, 09:47:30 AM »

lol I was watching Leprechaun 4: In Space last night. I skipped 2 and 3 though.

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #38648 on:** April 17, 2021, 09:56:11 AM »

I am on the reboot movies wish me luck.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #38649 on:** April 17, 2021, 11:26:27 AM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on April 17, 2021, 09:47:30 AM

lol I was watching Leprechaun 4: In Space last night. I skipped 2 and 3 though.

Don’t skip 3, it’s hilarious. Space is so crazy dumb, it’s got the same energy as Critters 4 which was also in space...

Nintex · « **Reply #38650 on:** April 17, 2021, 04:52:34 PM »

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Cut 4K release

I'm so happy this is finally in 4K. This version of the film looks so good compared to the butchered Blu Ray release.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38651 on:** April 17, 2021, 11:30:08 PM »

News of the World was alright. A bit slow and uneventful though.

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #38652 on:** April 18, 2021, 12:14:17 AM »

Watched the reboot/sequel to the original Leprechaun was a lot better than I was expecting, probably has the best kills in the entire franchise.

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I also finished up the new Critters decent movie, wish more movies respected the source material even if it was hokey in the first place.

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chronovore · « **Reply #38653 on:** April 19, 2021, 02:34:18 AM »

Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman in John Woo's Philip K. Dick's PAYCHECK.

This is a silly movie. I mean, I like Woo's Mission Impossible 2, but this is next-level stupid stuff. There is nothing consistent in this entire movie. There are some beautiful shots, but there's no point in guessing what's next in a movie with '70s Batman TV show level puzzles and logic jumps.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38654 on:** April 19, 2021, 05:41:50 PM »

Music is cool

Tasty · « **Reply #38655 on:** April 20, 2021, 11:03:23 AM »

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Bloody-Disgusting additionally reports Rob Zombie’s upcoming film adaptation of The Munsters is rumored to be a Peacock exclusive “that will open day-and-date in theaters via Universal Pictures/UPHE, similar to what Warner Bros. is doing with HBO Max.”

Wh----what...??!?!?

Tasty · « **Reply #38656 on:** April 20, 2021, 11:06:48 AM »

https://twitter.com/AngelaBishop/status/1383948908263403523

https://twitter.com/GladysB/status/1383942868960645126

Feels like I've been hearing about this movie FOREVER and it's actually, finally going into production.

Fucking crazy George is getting that much money to play with though, holy shit.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #38657 on:** April 20, 2021, 11:23:03 AM »

Could result in a bloated mess though.
Fury Road worked so well because it was lean and mean.

Transhuman · « **Reply #38658 on:** April 20, 2021, 11:28:24 AM »

They were going to film Fury Road here in Australia too but it started raining and the landscape was too green. Thankfully there is a drought now so hopefully there are still a few bushes and shrubs around but not too many so the landscape looks like it's chronologically somewhere between Mad Max 2, where there were no living trees but still a few smaller insignificant plants that are still green, and Fury Road, where there was no living vegetation in the environment and even dead vegetation is rarely shown.

Tasty · « **Reply #38659 on:** April 20, 2021, 11:41:58 AM »

Quote from: Don Rumata on April 20, 2021, 11:23:03 AM

Could result in a bloated mess though.
Fury Road worked so well because it was lean and mean.

Would rather see a bloated mess directed by Miller than most soulless marketing-driven pap out there these days.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #38660 on:** April 20, 2021, 02:22:55 PM »

Quote from: Tasty on April 20, 2021, 11:41:58 AM

Quote from: Don Rumata on April 20, 2021, 11:23:03 AM
Could result in a bloated mess though.
Fury Road worked so well because it was lean and mean.

Would rather see a bloated mess directed by Miller than most soulless marketing-driven pap out there these days.

Yeah, that's true.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #38661 on:** April 20, 2021, 03:34:06 PM »

Quote from: Tasty on April 20, 2021, 11:03:23 AM

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Bloody-Disgusting additionally reports Rob Zombie’s upcoming film adaptation of The Munsters is rumored to be a Peacock exclusive “that will open day-and-date in theaters via Universal Pictures/UPHE, similar to what Warner Bros. is doing with HBO Max.”

Wh----what...??!?!?

Tuckers Law · « **Reply #38662 on:** April 20, 2021, 04:02:59 PM »

Going to be ridiculously difficult to find a new Herman Munster. Fred Gwynne was perfect in the role.

Also: it better be funny, I’ll not stand for a dour bullshit-horror Munsters.

“Did you say ‘yutes’?”

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #38663 on:** April 20, 2021, 04:52:11 PM »

Rob Zombie has actually done comedy before:

Not that this style would translate to a good Munsters movie.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38664 on:** April 20, 2021, 05:45:06 PM »

Hostiles was too grimdark for its own good.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38665 on:** April 20, 2021, 09:31:21 PM »

The Courier was really good

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but not so good that Cumberbatch should have starved himself for like 20 minutes of movie fotage.

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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38666 on:** April 20, 2021, 09:34:01 PM »

I also now have Cumbath in my search history.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #38667 on:** April 21, 2021, 07:24:00 AM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on April 20, 2021, 05:45:06 PM

Hostiles was too grimdark for its own good.

The Christian Bale one? Probably unfair to say, but felt a bit like parody of other movies.
Kind of like Better Angels felt like a parody of Malick (or post Tree of Life Malick, felt like a parody of Malick

)
I found it surprisingly corny.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38668 on:** April 21, 2021, 09:18:35 AM »

Ya I found it very unintentionally corny too. I actually LOLed when the three little kids got shot one by one at the start. Rosamund Pike was wearing baby-bullet armor.

Nintex · « **Reply #38669 on:** April 21, 2021, 05:02:02 PM »

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1384968196294418446

Looks like Sony+ won't be a thing just yet

Tasty · « **Reply #38670 on:** April 21, 2021, 05:22:54 PM »

Sony has been aggressively against building their own platform, believing there's more value, and more importantly less downside, in licensing while retaining rights.

chronovore · « **Reply #38671 on:** April 22, 2021, 09:14:11 AM »

Quote from: Tasty on April 21, 2021, 05:22:54 PM

Sony has been aggressively against building their own platform, believing there's more value, and more importantly less downside, in licensing while retaining rights.

Submarine patent trolls also worship that model.

Tasty · « **Reply #38672 on:** April 22, 2021, 05:14:47 PM »

https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1385306093799165953

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #38673 on:** April 22, 2021, 07:42:25 PM »

Spot the people who weren’t alive in the 90’s.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #38674 on:** April 22, 2021, 08:07:47 PM »

Or shouldn't be alive today.

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In MINECRAFT, obviously.

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Tasty · « **Reply #38675 on:** April 22, 2021, 08:17:06 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on April 22, 2021, 07:42:25 PM

Spot the people who weren’t alive in the 90’s.

Tasty · « **Reply #38676 on:** April 23, 2021, 12:11:50 PM »

Edit- Lol why does Bloody Disgusting think this is a new release?

https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3661750/corey-feldman-becomes-zombie-king-alongside-edward-furlong-trailer/

Tuckers Law · « **Reply #38677 on:** April 24, 2021, 01:04:20 AM »

Mortal Kombat was the right amount of stupid, I went in with zero expectations and was rewarded for my time far more than the meh Godzilla vs Kong. Sheng Tsung’s actor kept throwing me off, though, leaving me thinking in every scene he’s in that, “I bet he’s good with calculations.”

toku · « **Reply #38678 on:** April 24, 2021, 10:36:28 AM »

Tonally it felt more like a horror movie to me. They made Sub Zero into terminator. I went in with zero expectations too and enjoyed it. Kano MVP. That actor was having fun.

MMaRsu · « **Reply #38679 on:** April 24, 2021, 05:10:59 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on April 19, 2021, 02:34:18 AM

Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman in John Woo's Philip K. Dick's PAYCHECK.

This is a silly movie. I mean, I like Woo's Mission Impossible 2, but this is next-level stupid stuff. There is nothing consistent in this entire movie. There are some beautiful shots, but there's no point in guessing what's next in a movie with '70s Batman TV show level puzzles and logic jumps.

Both of those movies are fucking terrible but yeah Paycheck is dumb on another level

chronovore · « **Reply #38680 on:** April 24, 2021, 06:37:03 PM »

Quote from: MMaRsu on April 24, 2021, 05:10:59 PM

Quote from: chronovore on April 19, 2021, 02:34:18 AM
Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman in John Woo's Philip K. Dick's PAYCHECK.

This is a silly movie. I mean, I like Woo's Mission Impossible 2, but this is next-level stupid stuff. There is nothing consistent in this entire movie. There are some beautiful shots, but there's no point in guessing what's next in a movie with '70s Batman TV show level puzzles and logic jumps.

Both of those movies are fucking terrible but yeah Paycheck is dumb on another level

Paul Giamatti, wasted. Uma Thurman, mild and unimpressive. Aaron Eckhardt, unrepentantly oozing evil in every scene.

I want to read the PKD book now, just to see if there’s any overlap with that nonsensical script.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #38681 on:** April 24, 2021, 09:00:36 PM »

I thought MK was really disappointing, and went in with no expectations also.
Just devoid of any fun, aside from the Kano guy trying his hardest to inject some life into this cosplay fest.
At least it had some decent CGi here and there, with the ice effects.
Also who the fuck was that protagonist, just gimme Liu Kang, fool.

Made me appreciate PW.Anderson's version all the more.
Was nice to see Kung Lao tho, he was my main whenever i played the games.

Bebpo · « **Reply #38682 on:** April 24, 2021, 10:42:14 PM »

Mortal Kombat was...passable. Like it just baaaaaaaaarely is ok enough to not be a "bad" movie and was enjoyable, but was pretty stupid, a little slow paced for the first half and didn't have a lot of great moments. But it had good enough action, and was fun & campy and had some game references.

First Mortal Kombat was better for sure. But this is ok. Was worth the 90 mins.

toku · « **Reply #38683 on:** April 24, 2021, 11:50:57 PM »

Definitely felt like a pilot.

bork · « **Reply #38684 on:** April 26, 2021, 07:30:36 AM »

Nu-Mortal Kombat was OK I guess. Don't get adding a brand new character who basically took Johnny Cage's place.
For all the hype and trailers showing Scorpion, he's barely in the film.

Some strange omissions, too. Mileena but no Kitana? No Shao Khan? Guess it was pretty 'budget' since most of it just took place in the middle of nowhere.

I agree that the original 1995 movie was better, even if it is 10 times cheesier and filled with bad CG.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #38685 on:** April 26, 2021, 10:02:40 AM »

Yeah i think they signed, like, 4 more movies? Godspeed with that.

Transhuman · « **Reply #38686 on:** April 26, 2021, 10:21:18 AM »

Respectfully, you people disgust me

Tasty · « **Reply #38687 on:** April 26, 2021, 10:54:54 AM »

The Oscars were a goddamn trainwreck.

Glad I watched the whole thing live so now I have context (and enjoyed YMS crew's live commentary.)

They fucking switched the schedule for Best Picture and Best Actor/Actress because they wanted to end on Chadwick Boseman winning posthumously (he was even the last "In Memoriam" headshot and got extra time), but the Academy voted for Anthony Hopkins.

"There were gasps in the audience."

Anthony Hopkins doesn't give a fuck about awards and was asleep at home when he won.

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“Having to be nice to people and to be charming and flirting with them…oh, come on! People go out of their way to flatter the nominating body and I think it’s kind of disgusting. That’s always been against my nature,” said Hopkins. “People groveling around and kissing the backsides of famous producers and all that. It makes me want to throw up, it really does.”

The show basically cut out 10 seconds after he won. "That's all folks!"

Sadder than a wet fart.

Tasty · « **Reply #38688 on:** April 26, 2021, 10:58:04 AM »

On the plus side, no Jimmy Kimmel or SNL fuckos making cringe jokes.

Not sure if they have enough material with Trump out of office anyways.

Mr. Nobody · « **Reply #38689 on:** April 26, 2021, 12:17:57 PM »

Can't wait for the next episode of Mortal Kombat on the CW

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #38690 on:** April 28, 2021, 01:30:44 PM »

Tasty · « **Reply #38691 on:** April 28, 2021, 01:38:16 PM »

Nintex · « **Reply #38692 on:** April 28, 2021, 03:20:42 PM »

I can't tell who is GI Joe and who is Cobra.

Why aren't those people wearing masks, they must be bad guys.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #38693 on:** April 28, 2021, 04:27:40 PM »

When's the Matrix 4 trailer, again?

Tasty · « **Reply #38694 on:** April 28, 2021, 07:08:27 PM »

Quote from: Don Rumata on April 28, 2021, 04:27:40 PM

When's the Matrix 4 trailer, again?

I WAS JUST THINKING THIS

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38695 on:** April 28, 2021, 07:25:05 PM »

https://io9.gizmodo.com/jeff-goldblum-is-doing-a-dungeons-dragons-podcast-wh-1846781705?utm_campaign=io9

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #38696 on:** May 01, 2021, 09:58:05 AM »

Got halfway through The Mitchells vs The Machines last night: It's actually pretty great.

Finished. If you liked the Lego movie or Spiderverse, you'd probably like this.

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #38697 on:** May 03, 2021, 07:53:02 AM »

I didn't realise Mitchells vs Machines was a Miller / Lord joint, and just assumed it was the usual kids cartoon shit netflix pad their lineup with, but yeah, I watched it and can confirm it's pretty entertaining and had a few genuine LOLs from me, even though I kind of actively hated the main protagonist? It reminded me a lot of 'when it was good' earlyish Simpsons in tone, where it had moments of genuine emotion, but managed to undercut it with a gag just before it became shmaltz and that mostly grounded in reality until its really not and nobody blinks setting.

I especially liked the "hello fellow humans" robot pair, and they mined that for some pretty good bits.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #38698 on:** May 03, 2021, 03:34:26 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on April 28, 2021, 01:30:44 PM

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Was wondering if Harry Knowles was still alive since I haven't heard his name in a hot minute and found out he got MeToo'd in 2017:

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/harry-knowles-sexual-assault-alamo-drafthouse-1201878971/

chronovore · « **Reply #38699 on:** May 03, 2021, 10:51:38 PM »

The Forest: Natalie Dormer goes looking for her missing twin sister in Japan's "Suicide Forest." This is about as good as the first Juon movie, about which I am lukewarm. The mythology seems inconsistent, or could have used a better explanation. The Japanese people in the film seem like walk-ons in a film about their own culture. A couple neat twists. Trying to figure out why 90% of the names in the credits were eastern European.

The Invisible Man: Elisabeth Moss is fantastic. The direction and editing are a goddamned clinic in suspense and surprise. No cheap jump scares, this film shows you what it's going to do, and then does it, and it's still surprising.

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