Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Polident Hive]

Saw some concept art from Affleck's Batman the other week. They were going back to the Bale/Nolan style? I liked the comic book gray and black he had in previous movies.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

disgusting

[Nintex]

lmao Ice man is the admiral now 

https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1508801595181568013

[chronovore]

Looks fun, but seriously wondering who asked for this.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Looks fun, but seriously wondering who asked for this.

L. Ron Hubbard Estates Treasurer

[HardcoreRetro]

Here's a cute animated movie for us Europeans to watch. Great movie btw.

[Tuckers Law]

jarviss ᱬ (@jrvsscarlet) Tweeted:
Be careful out there everyone. I had 2 Morbius tickets in my car and someone broke in and left 4 more. https://t.co/AUtwDehdbM

[Nintex]

[Madrun Badrun]

It's at 17%, wow

[Nintex]

I'm still processing the Hans Zimmer concert. Just as I come across this video.


Hearing the DUNE theme live was incredible. They had all those weird self-made instruments and the actual vocalist at the concert (she actually did Gladiator too (after just an afternoon of practice) because Lisa had tested positive for COVID).
But there was also a version of the Dark Knight theme with probably the deepest bass I've ever felt in my life and it just kept getting louder and louder. In fact the entire building was literally shaking.

And once you had processed all that he brought out a different vocalist who had discovered during practice she could sing as high pitched as a violin.

Unlike the previous concert I went to in 2017 which was great too but with a simple structure of a song a bit of talk about the movie it was from and then another song, this was truely as Zimmer called it a big celebration of music.
In 2017 he had an orchestra of about ~70 people this time there weren't as many performers but it was the 'official' Hans Zimmer band with the guitarist, flautist, vocalists etc. .
The stage and light effects were insane too.

I hope the Amsterdam performance is the version they use for the Blu Ray release even though Lisa wasn't there. For the previous Blu Ray release they used the 2016 Prague recording, which was missing a few songs he did in Amsterdam in 2017 with special guests. For example, the Wonder Woman theme was performed live in Amsterdam for the first time by Tina Guo but missing from the BD release as well as a few solo performances and guest appearances.

They were filming on stage at the Amsterdam event but I couldn't tell if it was just for promotion or the Blu-Ray.
I imagine they would have to make a few cuts for the international release though, like the part where he trashed the Oscars and Will Smith and used phrases like 'that was fucking amazing' after a crazy guitar solo. 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/MorbiusMovie/status/1509571878507081732

The Morbius Discord Community

[team filler]

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[Cauliflower Of Love]

some one pm a link to the morbius discord

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/MorbiusMovie/status/1509571878507081732

The Morbius Discord Community

Is it just me or does the entire row in front of Leto look like paid models and not uh, the kind of people that would be on a Morbius discord?

[chronovore]

Those are almost certainly PR and Marketing flaks that are attending Leto’s appearance.

[chronovore]

Hoo boy.

[Madrun Badrun]

Rambo last blood was bad.  I like that it went back to vigilantism instead of military propaganda, but shame he didn't take it back to its roots and end on killing cops. 

[team filler]

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[Tasty]

Hoo boy.

Say what you will about Jason X but at least it had some cool kills.

[Tasty]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-pumps-brakes-smith-action-194458637.html

Bright 2 next please

[james]

Watched Free Guy this weekend.

6/10

[D3RANG3D]

[Madrun Badrun]

Watched Free Guy this weekend.

6/10

I really liked Free Guy for what it was. 

[james]

Watched Free Guy this weekend.

6/10

I really liked Free Guy for what it was.

The plot holes were too large.

Scene A: how did he kiss you there's no kiss button
He's an npc he does what we wants

Scene B 10 minutes later SHE KISSES HIM

[chronovore]

we need a dorner movie tbh.

Natalie Dorner? I agree.

[chronovore]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-pumps-brakes-smith-action-194458637.html

Bright 2 next please

There was supposed to be a TV show next, based on it. You know, just like Alien Nation.

[Tasty]

A Bright anime came out last fall IIRC.

[Polident Hive]

The Last Duel was really great. Ridley Scott's best since Kingdom of Heaven.

Listening to a conversation with him, I've never heard him speak outside of commentary. Any movie the interviewer mentions, from Black Rain to GI Jane, he goes "fucking great movie!" Any actor, he goes "fucking love nicholas cage, the twat." When asked about shooting in Ireland, he goes "it's always fucking raining." Closest thing to a break or vacation he's taken was filming A Good Year. Cool dude.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-pumps-brakes-smith-action-194458637.html

Bright 2 next please

There was supposed to be a TV show next, based on it. You know, just like Alien Nation.

I fucking loved alien nation, film AND show

[Madrun Badrun]

The Lighthouse was great

[chronovore]

A Bright anime came out last fall IIRC.

Complete garbage. Couldn't finish it.
I meant there was a live-action TV show planned.

[Tasty]

A Bright anime came out last fall IIRC.

Complete garbage. Couldn't finish it.

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I meant there was a live-action TV show planned.

Oh. Yeah hopefully that's been shitcanned too.

[Potato]

Did Bright just start life as a Shadowrun film and then they lost the licence?

Seems to have some similarities that made me think that when I watched it.

Speaking of Shadowrun, a TV adaptation would be great.

[Tasty]

Bright was a Max Landis original IP.

[chronovore]

Max Landis X Will Smith

Yeah, that’s megacanceled.

[Potato]

Bright was a Max Landis original IP.

I'm going to say that he played a lot of Shadowrun before he wrote it then. The setting is basically identical except for being light on the cyberpunk.

[Tasty]

Possibly. I think it's just as likely Max in isolation found the concept of 'modern + fairytale' "groundbreaking."

[Pissy F Benny]

Probably, he's the hollywood equivalent of the tech bro who thinks he's come up with the new uber and its just a public bus route.

[Tasty]

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/ezra-miller-arrest-warner-dc-meeting-1331156/

Looks like that chokeslam vid wasn't fake.

[Joe Molotov]

May go watch Everything Everywhere All at Once this weekend

[Madrun Badrun]

It looks so good.  Hoping I can convince some friends. 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

May go watch Everything Everywhere All at Once this weekend

I'll be there behind you.

[Bebpo]

Finally sat down and watched Licorice Pizza

Weird movie, but was good. It feels like the kind of movie that should've been PT Anderson's first movie around his Hard Eight era, except made with all the skill he's amassed over his decades of filmmaking. Feels more about "hey the early 70s were weird" than anything. Also feels a bit weirdly anime in that the way the main gal is written is like super Tsundere tropey. Also the main gal and her entire family actually just being the band Haim and their parents just adds to the strangeness of the film. Just an odd movie overall, but well made and pretty enjoyable.

[ToxicAdam]

It felt like one of those gimmick short story books where the stories are not connected but two characters appear in each story.  Some kind of consistent throughline or specific POV of the times would of been welcome.

[HardcoreRetro]

It's a PT Anderson movie?

I thought it was a Richard Linklater one. Seems more his style.

[Madrun Badrun]

Black Friday was not good
  *correct thread

[Bebpo]

It felt like one of those gimmick short story books where the stories are not connected but two characters appear in each story.  Some kind of consistent throughline or specific POV of the times would of been welcome.

Yeah, my friend said the same thing, that it felt like a series of vignettes. I saw that at times, but i thought it still held together enough.

The Linklatter mention is spot on, it's a Linklatter kind of flick, but stylistically it feels very P.T. Anderson.

I don't like The Master, it's the only film of his I don't like, so I'd put this above that, but I think it's weaker than the rest of his catalogue. Still quality though, would give it a 3.5/4.

[Tasty]

Black Friday was not good
  *correct thread

The old one, the middle one, or the new one?

I thought the new one was absolute putrid garbage.

Edit- I read that as Black Christmas

[Quaker]

May go watch Everything Everywhere All at Once this weekend

I watched this tonight in preparation(Crouching Tiger rewatch was last night) and thought it was genuinely fantastic.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x764z22

[Bebpo]

Watched Spielberg's West Side Story remake.

Never seen a movie look so authentically like it was made in the time period before. The set design, costume work. cinematography and direction is really stellar. The musical sequences are busy and dynamic. Very technically impressive.

But like idk what Speilberg saw in Ansel Elgort, dude feels incredibly miscast. Everyone else is thin, grimey and muscled in the face and he's just this pretty dough boy who looks like he's in an isekai where he stepped into this movie from 2020. It's not like he's a great singer or dancer. Just seems a weird miscast.

Also the last 30 mins kind of loses steam and peters out. The first 2 hours through the rumble is really good, but then it's like the movie gives up and stops caring and is just getting the rest done to hit the credits.

[Tasty]

NYT: New Era Begins at Warner Bros., Tinged With Nostalgia

By 2018, almost every golden-age Hollywood studio had been conquered by outside forces.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had been tossed between disruptive owners for decades, never to fully recover. Columbia Pictures was sold to Coca-Cola in 1982 and then offloaded to Sony in 1989. Universal had weathered five outside takeovers in the span of 21 years. Paramount Pictures had been strip mined for cash by an ailing Sumner Redstone.

Warner Bros. alone stood as Hollywood’s citadel, a beige-walled protectorate of filmmakers run by executives with institutional Hollywood knowledge.

Then AT&T drove into town.

Already, Mr. Zaslav has vanquished tech leaders brought in by AT&T, including Jason Kilar, who made his name at Hulu and Amazon, and Andy Forssell, who came up through Oracle and Hulu. Also departing is Ann Sarnoff, who AT&T hired to run Warner Bros. in 2019 despite limited Hollywood experience. During her tenure, Ms. Sarnoff reworked the Warner Bros. shield logo, dropping the gold trim in favor of AT&T blue. On Friday, Mr. Zaslav restored the gold.

Definitely feels good to have the gold/yellow back. I also like how it's not tall/squished together anymore. Feels right.

“Success is about creative talent, in front of the screen, and behind the screen, and fighting and fighting to create a culture that supports that creative vision,” Mr. Zaslav said when announcing the takeover. For much of the past year, he has rhapsodized about the studio’s rich legacy, repeatedly paying tribute to Jack, Harry, Sam and Albert Warner, “the brothers who started it all.”

TALK TO ME ZAS BABY

On Friday, Mr. Zaslav talked about his aspirations to “dream big and dream bold” in an email sent to his new employees. “Hallelujah,” one Warner Bros. manager said in a text message afterward. Another executive at the studio, speaking by phone, said she was going on a “wild” shopping spree to celebrate, adding, “Hollywood is back, baby.”

Others were not so sure. [...] Under Ms. Sarnoff, Warner Bros. slashed its annual theatrical output by nearly half and built a direct-to-streaming assembly line. “The good old days are gone forever,” one Warner-affiliated film producer said on Friday.

Mr. Horn continued: “David’s willingness to go around town and seek the advice of dozens of people has spoken volumes. It’s how you build trust.”

Mr. Zaslav will “work with a passion to rebuild the studio’s relationship with the creative community,” Mr. Daly said. “You’ve got to support the talent,” he added. “It’s a bit like children: Don’t spoil them too much, but make them feel loved.”

That's actually pretty accurate, from actors to writers to directors to pretty much everyone.

If Zas wants to prove his mettle, he'll moneyhat Nolan back into the fold after Oppenheimer.

[porkbun]

Hoo boy.

Say what you will about Jason X but at least it had some cool kills.

The sleeping bag one is one of my favorites.  I like the movie overall.  Yeah, the story is supid, but not any worse than fake Jason, psychic powers, or voodoo.  It's fun and has nice eye candy.

Lexa Doig

 

May go watch Everything Everywhere All at Once this weekend

I watched this tonight in preparation(Crouching Tiger rewatch was last night) and thought it was genuinely fantastic.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x764z22

That's a good one.  I'd also recommend Ah Kam.  It's a neat look at the world of Hong Kong stunt performers.  And of course they play the footage of her breaking her back (legit) several times during the end credits.

Other good pre-Hollywood movies for her are Yes Madam!, Police Story 3 (Supercop), Project S (Supercop 2), Wing Chun, Tai Chi Master, The Heroic Trio, and Executioners (Heroic Trio 2).

[Madrun Badrun]

Lexa Doig

[chronovore]

Lexa Doig

Couldn’t figure out where I had seen her before, had to look it up. She is Talia al Ghul in the Arrow series. She’s good in that.

[Tasty]

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/04/david-lynch-inland-empire-laura-dern-1234716407/

4K AI-upscaled Inland Empire overseen by David Lynch.... wait what??

[Bebpo]

I vaguely remember that one was not particularly good? Like most Lynch stuff has kind of stuck around the test of time in weirdness and goodness, but I can't recall anything about that besides that I saw it back in 2006?

[Coax]

So it was shot in SD, scaled to HD+, downsampled to SD again to remove 'false details' introduced, then upscaled again (from that final master?) recently using a neural network. Seems like a roundabout way to do it, unless it was actually upscaled from the source and the article isn't super clear about it.

[Tasty]

I vaguely remember that one was not particularly good? Like most Lynch stuff has kind of stuck around the test of time in weirdness and goodness, but I can't recall anything about that besides that I saw it back in 2006?

I mean it's almost four hours unfiltered David Lynch by way of early-2000s camcorder footage, no matter the story or acting not everyone is gonna get over that hump. But it's a spellbinding work (probably better served as an HBO miniseries), and it probably is Laura Dern's best work. Very excited by the thought of possibly watching it in higher quality than a camcorder, it took me more than one attempt to watch and finish back in the day but I'm glad I did.

I'm excited by this 4K upscale even if I'm waiting on footage since yeah, not too sure of the details right now.

[Bebpo]

So it was shot in SD, scaled to HD+, downsampled to SD again to remove 'false details' introduced, then upscaled again (from that final master?) recently using a neural network. Seems like a roundabout way to do it, unless it was actually upscaled from the source and the article isn't super clear about it.

From a tech perspective, I can't imagine that it won't be a total mess visually.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/ScratchyDerose/status/1514437504723787778

Hmm...