Author Topic: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread (Read 4176953 times)

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #41760 on:** April 21, 2023, 02:57:37 AM »

There was also that fucking weird from nowhere episode of Creepshow which was literally Bob Ross vs Evil Dead

I didn't particularly like ED 2013 - it kinda felt like someone had made a movie based on a conversation they had with someone who watched the first one a few years back and were trying to recount the plot.

team filler · « **Reply #41761 on:** April 24, 2023, 04:41:53 AM »

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #41762 on:** April 24, 2023, 05:00:52 AM »

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41763 on:** April 24, 2023, 08:36:22 AM »

Gonna come in with a contrarian take. Travolta is better than Cage in Face Off.

Nintex · « **Reply #41764 on:** April 24, 2023, 07:56:09 PM »

Travolta did not get enough credit for that role and people didn't appreciate enough what a fun movie it was.

Potato · « **Reply #41765 on:** April 25, 2023, 05:21:35 AM »

Mario movie was ok. Not much going on storywise, but it was fun as a spectacle. They really played it safe. Kids enjoyed it.

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41766 on:** April 25, 2023, 07:30:26 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on April 24, 2023, 07:56:09 PM

Travolta did not get enough credit for that role and people didn't appreciate enough what a fun movie it was.

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Travolta nails Cage’s Castor mannerisms so well. Not dissing Cage. He’s great as Castor and Archer pretending to be Castor. He’s great in Broken Arrow, too. During Woo’s stint in Hollywood, Travolta understood how to act in Woo’s style the best.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #41767 on:** April 25, 2023, 09:55:06 PM »

Halfway through Scream 6. This is a lot of fun so far.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #41768 on:** April 25, 2023, 11:18:06 PM »

Good movie.

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41769 on:** April 27, 2023, 03:33:31 AM »

https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1651369356524400640

Tuckers Law · « **Reply #41770 on:** April 27, 2023, 07:50:43 AM »

Quote from: Polident Hive on April 27, 2023, 03:33:31 AM

https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1651369356524400640

I thought Alita was for sure done because it didn't do well in theaters!

Nintex · « **Reply #41771 on:** April 27, 2023, 03:28:57 PM »

https://twitter.com/hollywoodhandle/status/1651249238284685312

Can't wait for Miyamoto to insist Link does not speak in the movie adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and do a $2 billion movie with a muted protagonist.

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #41772 on:** April 27, 2023, 03:36:11 PM »

How soon until the fanboy wars?

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Nintex · « **Reply #41773 on:** April 27, 2023, 03:46:30 PM »

It all depends on Guardians of the Galaxy and more Miyamoto interviews. He's already been quite confident in stating that the goal is to overtake Disney and make Mario a bigger character than Mickey Mouse.
He also said that the critics not liking the movie probably made it more popular and people were more interested to see it because of it.

But he also says things like that he changed the script for the Japanese movie because the western script wouldn't work there so people wonder what changes he made or if its just a marketing ploy for the special Japanese screenings that have been announced in the US.

His perspective on the idea of licensing was also interesting. He considers himself and by extension Nintendo to be the 'talent agent' of their characters and everything has to be approved by Nintendo (him).
Unlike the classic form of licensing, where the creator loses their influence once they license their character or stories to another party.

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #41774 on:** April 28, 2023, 12:12:22 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on April 27, 2023, 03:46:30 PM

He considers himself and by extension Nintendo to be the 'talent agent' of their characters and everything has to be approved by Nintendo (him).

after the last smb movie, no fucking shit they want tighter control of the reins

Nintex · « **Reply #41775 on:** May 02, 2023, 01:51:50 PM »

https://twitter.com/wbpictures/status/1653444333390155777

Sideshow Raheem · « **Reply #41776 on:** May 03, 2023, 11:37:12 AM »

Renfield was disappointing despite Nic Cage being his usual awesome hyperbolic self. It took two movies and fused them, but not like in a particularly interesting or competent way.

Dracula and Renfield and their weird relationship is great. I wanted to see these two interacting and butting heads, with Renfield trying to escape servitude after decades of mistreatment. There wasn't too much of this.

And then you've got this crappy crime drama with Renfield and lady cop doing the buddy routine to take down a bro-dude gangster and his mommy. And you can turn off your brain here with the blood sprays and super-cool murders as the good guys slaughter everyone and Dracula teams up with the criminals.

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41777 on:** May 03, 2023, 12:03:12 PM »

Nintex · « **Reply #41778 on:** May 04, 2023, 04:13:17 PM »

I need to watch DUNE again, such a great looking movie

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #41779 on:** May 04, 2023, 04:27:10 PM »

just take an ambien

Nintex · « **Reply #41780 on:** May 06, 2023, 07:25:43 PM »

Netflix finally figured out their target audience is not the soy latte sipper

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1654848492773289985

HaughtyFrank · « **Reply #41781 on:** May 06, 2023, 08:13:07 PM »

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was good. Honestly James Gunn just really has that shit figured out by now. How nice is it to have a superhero trilogy where the characters grow and change and you have themes that are resolved at the end of the movie.
Though if you happened to dislike the first 2 this one won't change it

Nintex · « **Reply #41782 on:** May 08, 2023, 02:08:49 PM »

https://twitter.com/OppenheimerFilm/status/1655467845571198978

Nintex · « **Reply #41783 on:** May 10, 2023, 05:29:15 PM »

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1656393229531594754

Oof yikes

james · « **Reply #41784 on:** May 10, 2023, 08:17:04 PM »

Go woke by not renewing the cricket contract go broke

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #41785 on:** May 11, 2023, 11:06:21 AM »

everything long scripted sucks

it's all about short scripted youtube shorts

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41786 on:** May 11, 2023, 11:27:08 AM »

Learned for the first time that Wild Speed Fire Boost is out in a week. Can’t wait to see how the beginning of the end of the road begins.

Nintex · « **Reply #41787 on:** May 13, 2023, 05:38:45 PM »

Watched Ant-Man: Quantumania and it was ok for direct to streaming I guess?

Kang was actually the most interesting Marvel villain I've seen in a while but the last hour of the movie is once again just a bunch of CG armies going to war.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #41788 on:** May 14, 2023, 01:48:14 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on May 13, 2023, 05:38:45 PM

Watched Ant-Man: Quantumania and it was ok for direct to streaming I guess?

Kang was actually the most interesting Marvel villain I've seen in a while but the last hour of the movie is once again just a bunch of CG armies going to war.

It's funny because antman subverting that by using ants and then fucking marvel.

those the scott/ants scence was cool.

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41789 on:** May 14, 2023, 04:02:02 PM »

Mario Movie was actually pretty fun. 98% of that was “I know what that is!” but I like Mario and am an easy mark.

Nintex · « **Reply #41790 on:** May 15, 2023, 02:55:20 PM »

Nintex · « **Reply #41791 on:** May 17, 2023, 02:13:48 PM »

https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1658819727563665410

HaughtyFrank · « **Reply #41792 on:** May 18, 2023, 11:20:26 AM »

I'm so ready

Transhuman · « **Reply #41793 on:** May 18, 2023, 12:16:42 PM »

The book was phenomenal, not sure if i'd recommend reading it before the movie but I definitely recommend reading it at some point. There's no way the movie can cover everything that happened, even with a 3.5 hour runtime. I imagine a lot of Tom White's background will be cut, as well as what happens to him after the main events, which is probably enough for a movie on it's own.

Nintex · « **Reply #41794 on:** May 18, 2023, 04:08:52 PM »

DiCaprio is always so good in these type of films

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41795 on:** May 19, 2023, 08:09:10 AM »

Don’t put much stock in reviews, but surprised by this.

https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1659510916289888258

James Mangold has a streak of well regarded and well reviewed movies. This is coming after Kingdom Skull set low ish expectations.

headwalk · « **Reply #41796 on:** May 19, 2023, 09:04:04 AM »

Quote from: Polident Hive on May 19, 2023, 08:09:10 AM

Don’t put much stock in reviews, but surprised by this.

https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1659510916289888258

James Mangold has a streak of well regarded and well reviewed movies. This is coming after Kingdom Skull set low ish expectations.

his record can't compete with kathleen kennedy the franchise death witch.

Nintex · « **Reply #41797 on:** May 19, 2023, 09:15:20 AM »

Quote from: Polident Hive on May 19, 2023, 08:09:10 AM

Don’t put much stock in reviews, but surprised by this.

https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1659510916289888258

James Mangold has a streak of well regarded and well reviewed movies. This is coming after Kingdom Skull set low ish expectations.

The bits and pieces of the movie I've seen so far explain that capitalism is equal to stealing and the fact that Indy fought the Nazis doesn't get him a free pass from the perfect girl boss character because he killed indigenous people.

HaughtyFrank · « **Reply #41798 on:** May 19, 2023, 11:56:25 AM »

Holy crap, it was a 50% when I last looked. 12 reviews is still a fairly small sample size but i think it's pretty certain that it won't reach a good score

Edit: 44% with 18 reviews now

Sman · « **Reply #41799 on:** May 19, 2023, 12:36:57 PM »

Quote from: Polident Hive on May 19, 2023, 08:09:10 AM

Don’t put much stock in reviews, but surprised by this.

https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1659510916289888258

James Mangold has a streak of well regarded and well reviewed movies. This is coming after Kingdom Skull set low ish expectations.

It looks awful in trailers. Never a good sign if they can't find 2 minutes of good footage out of an entire movie.

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #41800 on:** May 19, 2023, 12:59:54 PM »

PART time

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #41801 on:** May 19, 2023, 01:09:16 PM »

Watched Freaky which 100% guaranteed was called Freaky Friday the 13th internally, because thats literally what it is - fish out of water highschooler body swap X slasher, and mining every trope it can from each respective genre.

As with all bodyswap comedies, the main characters have a lot of fun aping each other, and Vince Vaughns teenage girl is pretty funny, same with Kathryn Newtons stone cold unstoppable killer, and the supporting cast are pretty good too.

If you dislike either the slasher genre or the bodyswap comedy, nothing here is going to persuade you otherwise, but a pretty competent blending of the two leaves you with a pretty entertaining post-modern horror comedy. After watching, I looked up the folks responsible, and the director of this also did Happy Death Day and the sequel, which check out as its the same entertaining high concept genre mash up.

Like, its no Scream, but a very solid watch.

bork · « **Reply #41802 on:** May 20, 2023, 08:25:02 AM »

Fast X: Somehow, despite the lack of anyone going into space with a car, this one manages to be the most over the top stupid movie yet in this franchise. So many unintentionally hilarious moments with Vin and company being immortal superheroes as usual. It's a really dumb movie that feels like it's now recycling plot points and action scenes at times. Jason Momoa as the Fast version of The Joker was kinda fun, but the way they retconned Fast 5 to insert him into the story was awful. That's a staple of this series though, as is bringing back "dead" characters. The movie ends on a cliffhanger with

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Gal Gadot's Giselle popping back up.

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. And if that wasn't enough, the mid credits scene teases

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the return of Hobbes. I thought The Rock was done with this franchise?

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Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #41803 on:** May 20, 2023, 08:45:47 AM »

But i thought it was the last film in the franchise

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41804 on:** May 20, 2023, 09:13:01 AM »

It was, then it was a two part finale, and now is a trilogy finale.

In FFX-2, they become a pop group or something?

Potato · « **Reply #41805 on:** May 20, 2023, 05:12:05 PM »

Watched Ant Man 3. Even my 10 year old was bored.

Kang is just not a really threatening villain. He's so overpowered that any "solution" these new Avengers come up with will have to be absurd cosmic McGuffin territory. His powers in this film weren't even consistent and let's not start talking about the fucking ants and why only they went through some weird time dilation effect.

Also, lol, homeless people still exist in a world of Pym particles, cosmic travel, iron man nano particle tech, and wakanda.

Shit needs a reboot. Keep it grounded.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #41806 on:** May 20, 2023, 06:48:09 PM »

Gotg was great.

All the animal abuse bitching was fucking Hilarious.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #41807 on:** May 21, 2023, 12:19:19 AM »

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on May 20, 2023, 06:48:09 PM

Gotg was great.

All the animal abuse bitching was fucking Hilarious.

Was it more or less traumatic than 101 Dalmatians?

Coax · « **Reply #41808 on:** May 21, 2023, 05:42:08 AM »

Quote from: HaughtyFrank on May 18, 2023, 11:20:26 AM

I'm so ready

How tf isn't this on Apple's own Trailers site when it's produced by them

chronovore · « **Reply #41809 on:** May 21, 2023, 05:50:46 AM »

Quote from: Potato on May 20, 2023, 05:12:05 PM

Watched Ant Man 3. Even my 10 year old was bored.

Kang is just not a really threatening villain. He's so overpowered that any "solution" these new Avengers come up with will have to be absurd cosmic McGuffin territory. His powers in this film weren't even consistent and let's not start talking about the fucking ants and why only they went through some weird time dilation effect.

Also, lol, homeless people still exist in a world of Pym particles, cosmic travel, iron man nano particle tech, and wakanda.

Shit needs a reboot. Keep it grounded.

I am so happy that I didn't see this shit in a theater. I've never seen this much money spent so poorly. Everything is a mess.

GreatSageEqualOfHeaven · « **Reply #41810 on:** May 21, 2023, 08:12:58 AM »

Quote from: Polident Hive on May 20, 2023, 09:13:01 AM

In FFX-2, they become a pop group or something?

you're too early with this very solid joke

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #41811 on:** May 22, 2023, 04:51:30 PM »

Sisu

Another basic bitch retro style action flick ala Maverick that we need more of, hollywood should get a fucking clue already.

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It's old snake larping as a nordic ww2 Terminator bodying gnatzi's nuff said.

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HaughtyFrank · « **Reply #41812 on:** May 22, 2023, 07:00:22 PM »

Bodies Bodies Bodies

It's a fairly blatant takedown of Gen Z culture that refreshingly wasn't written by some old dude but by Gen Zers themselves so it feels a bit more nuanced than "ugh, social media". Pretty fun overall

bork · « **Reply #41813 on:** May 24, 2023, 08:35:05 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on May 21, 2023, 05:50:46 AM

Quote from: Potato on May 20, 2023, 05:12:05 PM
Watched Ant Man 3. Even my 10 year old was bored.

Kang is just not a really threatening villain. He's so overpowered that any "solution" these new Avengers come up with will have to be absurd cosmic McGuffin territory. His powers in this film weren't even consistent and let's not start talking about the fucking ants and why only they went through some weird time dilation effect.

Also, lol, homeless people still exist in a world of Pym particles, cosmic travel, iron man nano particle tech, and wakanda.

Shit needs a reboot. Keep it grounded.

I am so happy that I didn't see this shit in a theater. I've never seen this much money spent so poorly. Everything is a mess.

Watched it and I didn't think it was that bad, apart from the horrible Modok CG whenever they showed the actor's face. But then I'm a sucker for all the multiverse-related stuff and goofy characters. This was a pretty formulaic Marvel movie and didn't have the best action, but I kinda liked all the drama.

I really want them to hurry up and move on from all the Avengers, though. They have so many other characters they can use and it's tiring getting what continue to be End Game epilogue films.

MMaRsu · « **Reply #41814 on:** May 26, 2023, 04:10:38 AM »

Polident Hive · « **Reply #41815 on:** May 28, 2023, 06:21:23 AM »

This store had Top Gun Maverick as a demo for a big ass TV. Stood there watching it for some time, transfixed. One by one, other guys showed up, watching in either the crossed arms or hands on waist pose. Silent. One guy did an air fist bump in sync with Hangman. One guy’s wife grabbed him and he walked away backwards. Think I discovered positive masculinity.

Nintex · « **Reply #41816 on:** May 28, 2023, 11:44:03 AM »

https://twitter.com/TheRoo624/status/1662462438074118145

team filler · « **Reply #41817 on:** June 06, 2023, 12:00:54 PM »

I always thought it was burton who lost interest and stepped away. the studio forced him out. looks like they even hired child actors to go on talk shows and trash his movies

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burton was ahead of his time and even made two profitable movies. but they wanted to sell more toys to kids

Bebpo · « **Reply #41818 on:** June 11, 2023, 02:23:20 AM »

Ant-Man 3 was beyond awful. Worst MCU film. What is this script. Not only is the story terrible and pointless but the dialogue is filled with zingers like "You can always stop being a dick" $:-\$

Kang was pathetic, instead of this hyping up Avengers Kang Dynasty, it just makes me want the MCU to move on from Kang because apparently he sucks. Which is too bad because he was good in Loki for 1ep.

Thor 4 was a bad movie, but it had redeeming bits like Bale's character, some funny jokes, nicely shot black & white moon sequence. Ant-Man 3 has no redeeming values. Easily the worst film in the MCU.

Potato · « **Reply #41819 on:** June 11, 2023, 02:45:25 AM »

I think you need to revisit (or maybe not) some is the phase 1 and 2 stinkers before rating it the worst. Most soulless maybe, but nowhere near as bad as trash like Incredible Hulk, Thor 2 and Iron Man 3. Then you have Eternals, Captain Marvel, Age of Ultron, Dr Strange 2 and Black Panther 2 which all complete for worst movie as well.

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