Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Great Rumbler]

I might just have to see this shit on the big screen.

I think Tokyo Drift was when I tapped out on this series. Why are they still making them and why are people still seeing them?

After 4 they stopped being street racing movies and became over-the-top action movies with a bit of racing ocassionally.

[Bebpo]

Spontaneous - Well that was about the weirdest paced & tonal shifting movie I've seen. At like 50 mins in I thought it was over and saw there was still 50 mins left.

It's a tween HS romance movie about people spontaneously combusting. It's pretty sharply written and directing/acting is solid, but for me the tween romance bits were too tweeny and kinda not my thing while the exploding people stuff was enjoyable.

I figured it was probably a novel, because the pacing feels like a weird ass Pynchon kinda novel.

As a movie, idk, doesn't work that great even if the parts are good. I'm glad I watched it but idk if I'd recommend it.

[Bebpo]

Also the movie has a weird tension that I'm not sure is intentional where every scene you are bracing yourself for the characters to explode and instantly die and over an almost two hour movie length that becomes kind of draining.

[Madrun Badrun]

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]

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]

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]

It sounds like Mystery Team only dark

[Tasty]

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

[D3RANG3D]

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]

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]

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

[D3RANG3D]

I am on the reboot movies wish me luck. 

[G The Resurrected]

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]

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]

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

[D3RANG3D]

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]

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]

Music is cool

[Tasty]

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]

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]

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

[Transhuman]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Rob Zombie has actually done comedy before:



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

[Madrun Badrun]

Hostiles was too grimdark for its own good.

[Madrun Badrun]

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]

I also now have Cumbath in my search history. 

[Don Rumata]

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]

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]

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

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

[Tasty]

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]

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]

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

 

[Joe Molotov]

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

[Don Rumata]

Or shouldn't be alive today. 

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In MINECRAFT, obviously.

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[Tasty]

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

[Tasty]

 

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Definitely felt like a pilot.

[bork]

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]

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

[Transhuman]

Respectfully, you people disgust me

[Tasty]

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.

“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]

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]

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

[Joe Molotov]

 

[Tasty]

[Nintex]

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]

When's the Matrix 4 trailer, again?

[Tasty]

When's the Matrix 4 trailer, again?

I WAS JUST THINKING THIS

[Madrun Badrun]

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

[Madrun Badrun]

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.