Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Boogie]

As much as I like to shit on Frank Miller for his recent work, this quote is on point:

People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.

And that's exactly why Avengers made a shitload of money. But DC/Warner is blind to that and keep sucking off Nolan to copy the Batman movies.

batman, too, made a shit load of money.

lol, you're engaging with ManaByte.

[Phoenix Dark]

Didn't TDKR nearly make a billion worldwide, while TDK did make a billion? All three films did great. The more serious tone fit the character; modern Batman is quite serious, some of his best source material is mature, etc. I'd love to see a gritty, dark Daredevil film for instance, but Superman and most other characters should not be Nolanized.

Superman is a shitty character and most Superman films suck, come at me. He's not particularly popular today and I doubt this film will change that.

Another thing this tells me is that DC can't compete with Marvel in terms of superheroes. All they have is Batman, I don't see any of the other JLA having huge films like Thor or Captain America. Anyone want to see a Flash film? What about Wonder Woman? Martian Manhunter? The characters are boring thus leading to forced semi-comedies like Green Lantern. And without Bale as Batman what's the point of a JLA film.

[ManaByte]

Didn't TDKR nearly make a billion worldwide, while TDK did make a billion? All three films did great. The more serious tone fit the character; modern Batman is quite serious, some of his best source material is mature, etc. I'd love to see a gritty, dark Daredevil film for instance, but Superman and most other characters should not be Nolanized.

Superman is a shitty character and most Superman films suck, come at me. He's not particularly popular today and I doubt this film will change that.

Another thing this tells me is that DC can't compete with Marvel in terms of superheroes. All they have is Batman, I don't see any of the other JLA having huge films like Thor or Captain America. Anyone want to see a Flash film? What about Wonder Woman? Martian Manhunter? The characters are boring thus leading to forced semi-comedies like Green Lantern. And without Bale as Batman what's the point of a JLA film.

Bale wasn't a good Batman. Batman doesn't smoke a carton a day, but Bale's seemed to. Batman also doesn't quit being Batman because his girlfriend dies.

[Phoenix Dark]

Dude I think Bale's Batman is bad and his Bruce Wayne is alright. But most people disagree with us and want to see Bale as Batman in more films. Recasting him would defeat the purpose of a JLA film IMO. They need to establish these characters in the minds of the audience, and a recast would hurt their most bankable star/character.

Anyone outside of gay dudes and 13 year old girls want to see Robin Blake as Batman?

[Great Rumbler]

Bale wasn't a good Batman. Batman doesn't smoke a carton a day, but Bale's seemed to. Batman also doesn't quit being Batman because his girlfriend dies.

Batman's parent also weren't killed by The Joker. What's your point?

[ManaByte]

DC is doing the reverse Marvel with JLA. Introduce the characters there and then spin them off into solo movies after.

Bale's Batman doesn't fit in the same universe as Darkseid.

[Phoenix Dark]

Good luck with that. The exposition and character introductions will take up half the movie lol

[ManaByte]

Well they say the current script does have the Ryan Reynolds GL (though written differently) and the Cavill Superman in it. Just Batman, Wonder Woman, and Flash are new.

[Verdigris Murder]

I literally just rewatched Session 9, and its aged really well.

[Verdigris Murder]

Also Dark Shadows is actually really good.

[Cormacaroni]

DC is doing the reverse Marvel with JLA. Introduce the characters there and then spin them off into solo movies after.

Bale's Batman doesn't fit in the same universe as Darkseid.

and that's exactly why it would be awesome

[Great Rumbler]

I'm still interested in seeing the new Superman movie, but I agree that a Superman movie with lots of crazy intergalactic villains and superman punching a whole through a hundred skyscrapers would be really great. Also, I really hate what they did with The Green Lantern.

"Hey, I've got a great idea! We'll set up the intergalactic menace and this council on another planet full of aliens who fight intergalactic menaces ALL THE TIME but then the intergalactic menace attacks one Earth city and this regular guy fights it by himself because whatever!"

BLERGH.

It was also just boring as can be from front to back.

[Cormacaroni]

I'm still interested in seeing the new Superman movie, but I agree that a Superman movie with lots of crazy intergalactic villains and superman punching a whole through a hundred skyscrapers would be really great. Also, I really hate what they did with The Green Lantern.

"Hey, I've got a great idea! We'll set up the intergalactic menace and this council on another planet full of aliens who fight intergalactic menaces ALL THE TIME but then the intergalactic menace attacks one Earth city and this regular guy fights it by himself because whatever!"

BLERGH.

It was also just boring as can be from front to back.

Yeah, I think they should have saved the whole OA deal for later and just set the whole thing on Earth or at least in the solar system. The whole thing felt schizophrenic with the shuttling back and forth, and it all just served to diminish Hal Jordan even further than all the putdowns from every single person he knew on Earth. It's that fucking Hero's Journey/3 act structure bullshit again. I don't need to see his personal growth. I didn't need to see Indy Jones growing as a human being either. Silly serial heroes can just be silly serial heroes ya know? Arrow on TV is a bit like that too, with the way every single person Ollie meets is giving him shit about something he should be doing or did or says or thinks constantly

[Mandark]

Bale wasn't a good Batman. Batman doesn't smoke a carton a day, but Bale's seemed to. Batman also doesn't quit being Batman because his girlfriend dies.

I dunno.  We're talking about a guy who dresses up like it's Halloween and assaults strangers every night while constantly lying to people and guarding against genuine social interaction in his "real" life, all because his parents were shot two or three decades before.  Whatever Bruce Wayne's strengths, a healthy grieving process ain't one of them.

[cool breeze]

I'm still interested in seeing the new Superman movie, but I agree that a Superman movie with lots of crazy intergalactic villains and superman punching a whole through a hundred skyscrapers would be really great. Also, I really hate what they did with The Green Lantern.

"Hey, I've got a great idea! We'll set up the intergalactic menace and this council on another planet full of aliens who fight intergalactic menaces ALL THE TIME but then the intergalactic menace attacks one Earth city and this regular guy fights it by himself because whatever!"

BLERGH.

It was also just boring as can be from front to back.

Yeah, I think they should have saved the whole OA deal for later and just set the whole thing on Earth or at least in the solar system. The whole thing felt schizophrenic with the shuttling back and forth, and it all just served to diminish Hal Jordan even further than all the putdowns from every single person he knew on Earth. It's that fucking Hero's Journey/3 act structure bullshit again. I don't need to see his personal growth. I didn't need to see Indy Jones growing as a human being either. Silly serial heroes can just be silly serial heroes ya know? Arrow on TV is a bit like that too, with the way every single person Ollie meets is giving him shit about something he should be doing or did or says or thinks constantly

yeah, a better way to handle it would've been a smaller threat on earth (just the homeless guy) and a tease of a greater thread (parallax) for the sequels.  First movie is Hal coming to terms with what happened, and is pretty reckless with his powers but ultimately stops the bad guy.  Maybe you have Parallax show up and Hal is powerless to stop it.  But then Sinestro and other green lanterns show up and drive Parallax away, and the movie ends with Hal arriving at Oa to train and accept his new role as space cop.  And then Green Lantern: The Second One can be Training Day in space with weirdos in green tights.  I dunno. 

There was a lot wrong with the Green Lantern movie.  I didn't particularly like any of the stand alone Marvel movies, except Iron Man 1, but I liked Green Lantern even less than those.  Mark Strong  was cool as Sinestro, as was Angela Basset as Amanda Waller...that's about it.  Doesn't really matter if they're going forward with the Justice League movie...depending on how well Su--Man of Steel does, people will go see it for Batman and Superman.  It'd be novel if they have him try and arrest Superman for some reason or another, just to play up the space cop angle.

[ManaByte]

So Pacific Rim screened yesterday in Burbank:
http://www.pacificrimmovie.net/news/reactions-from-pacific-rim-test-screening/

Rian Johnson @rianjohnson (Twitter)
Go into Pacific Rim prepared to be transmogrified into a 12 year old. And then to pee your pants with joy. I love it so much.

[Barry Egan]

Overall, it’s probably the best summer monster movie I’ve seen, and out of summer movies in general, falls behind the new Batman series, but that’s about it. I wrote on their response form that they should be proud of the movie and that I’m glad it’s not another Transformers clone (re: Battleship). They killed it!

Oooof.  Worse than The Dark Marlboro Man?  Summer flop total.

[Joe Molotov]

[Great Rumbler]

Overall, it’s probably the best summer monster movie I’ve seen, and out of summer movies in general, falls behind the new Batman series, but that’s about it. I wrote on their response form that they should be proud of the movie and that I’m glad it’s not another Transformers clone (re: Battleship). They killed it!

Oooof.  Worse than The Dark Marlboro Man?  Summer flop total.

"Really good, but not as good as Batman." ~Random IMDB user

[Phoenix Dark]

But TDKR was bad

[fistfulofmetal]

Fast 6 trailer



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[Great Rumbler]

With how good the last Fast & Furious was, and with the cast and crew returning, I'm am definitely hyped up to see this.

[Cormacaroni]

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that is EXACTLY how it feels when i cum

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Trading Places - Never saw this movie before.  It was pretty good.  Before I saw this movie, people were talking up Jamie Lee Curtis' titties and I was always like wtf but after seeing this movie, now I know why.

[Cormacaroni]

first titties i ever saw in motion, life-changing obviously

[Beezy]

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that is EXACTLY how it feels when i cum

[Cormacaroni]

happy birthday Beez!

god i'm so lazy i can't even post in the official thread

[Eric P]

Shinjuku Mad - guy tries to figure out why his son was killed which leads him to a leftist order in late 60s Japan.  Released in 1970 but has the 60s all over it.  Good but short.  The youth in this film are all either on drugs or fucking except for the one dude who sings a song whose lyrics are "hari krishna" for like 15 minutes straight.

freebie and the bean - i'm surprised more people don't know about this film. James Caan and Alan Arkin are squabbling buddy cops in San Francisco going outside the law to take down the kingpin of a highjacking ring.  lots of car chases with lots of car crashes including one off of a highway into an apartment.  crazed.  wildly inappropriate sexual content too.

 now see here private hargrove - comedy based on the writings of a journalist who was drafted to fight at the tail-end of ww2.  Surprisingly funny.  Almost a screwball propaganda piece.  Good dialogue and Donna Reed plays a good love interest.

[Cormacaroni]

dude I saw Freebie and the Bean IN THE THEATER

[fistfulofmetal]

PRACTICAL EFFFEEECTXXXXX

[cool breeze]

other superbowl movie commercials




Fast 6 wins

[Beezy]

happy birthday Beez!

god i'm so lazy i can't even post in the official thread

Haha. Thank you oh cult grandmaster.

[Rahxephon91]

Had a marathon of movies recently:

Silent Hill-I've never seen this or played the games. So I have no attachment to the series. I liked this movie. The visuals were great and the atmosphere fantastic, with some genuinely creepy things. It just seemed to be an actually cared for and well crafted movie.

Silent Hill 2-Pretty much the complete 180 of the 1st. Feels rather cheap looking and pointless.

Iron Sky-Was this movie supposed to be funny? Jesus Christ it wasn't. What sounded like a great set-up for some fun just never went anywhere. So boring.

The FP-Now this is a fun movie, were it feels like the creators understood their premise and genre and played it up correctly. From the music to the visuals. Everything clicks and sells it's 80s dance gang genre movie. It was great.

Spawn-Man this was bad. Micheal J White can not act and the cg has aged terribly.

Equilibrium-Gun Kata is kind of silly and the movie can look pretty cheap in it's cityscape shots. But still, it was interesting movies with a well presented world. I liked it.

[Great Rumbler]

Spawn-Man this was bad. Micheal J White can not act and the cg has aged terribly.

Wrong. Go watch Black Dynamite.

[The Sceneman]

fuck Black Dynamite is so good.

And I rewatched Dredd the other day, easily the best film of 2012.

My movies of the year going back as far as I can:

1997 - Con Air
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - The Mummy
2000 - Traffic
2001 - Spy Kids
2002 - Catch Me If You Can
2003 - Oldboy or Paycheck. Probably Paycheck as Oldboy is a film student type of choice
2004 - The Butterfly Effect (really it's The Aviator but that isn't as lulz entertainment as Butterfly Effect)
2005 - The New World
2006 - American Cannibal
2007 - Sunshine
2008 - Speed Racer
2009 - GI Joe
2010 - Kick Ass
2011 - Drive
2012 - Dredd

[The Sceneman]

Silent Hill-I've never seen this or played the games. So I have no attachment to the series. I liked this movie. The visuals were great and the atmosphere fantastic, with some genuinely creepy things. It just seemed to be an actually cared for and well crafted movie.

Yeah the Silent Hill film is great, and probably the most faithful-to-the-source game to film there is.

[chronovore]

Finished My Name is Bruce; fun, but wholly uneven. I know it was supposed to just be a fun, funny, self-parodying horror comedy, but it was also supposedly showing an actual small town hiring Bruce-Campbell-as-hero, and the misunderstandings which ensue. It was fun; seemed like a movie Bruce made with his friends on a lark. Eh, it was fun.

[The Sceneman]

I enjoyed that film, but yeah, "uneven" is one of the best adjectives you could use to describe it. Self parody films are pretty dicey and hard to get right (see also: Pauly Shore is Dead, JCVD) so kudos to the crew for trying, at least.

[chronovore]

There were a couple good gags; it was worth a spin, and the final scene and credits brought the picture together, but the whole thing lacked some edge. I also thought it tried to walk a weird line with the Chinese aspect, both casting the miners as mistreated victims worthy of respect, and then Ted Raimi comes out in "yellow-face" with a really offensive accent, with which I was uncomfortable.

[Eric P]

Fear of a Black Hat, the other early 90s hip hop mockumentary.  Good moments but not as slick as CB4.

[Mandark]

I remember that!

[Don Flamenco]

watched a br rip of the The Master last night.  Great movie!   First film i've seen in a long time...

[Great Rumbler]

Incoming Star Wars spinoff movies:

"To start with, they're going to focus on established characters and do solo films," AICN's Harry Knowles said about Disney's plans to expand their "Star Wars" empire. "The first Stand Alone film is going to center upon Yoda.  At this stage specifics are sparse, but Kathleen Kennedy is putting together a 'Star Wars' slate."

[ManaByte]

One of Harry's spies saw "Yoda Chronicles" on a white board at Lucasfilm and thought he had a scoop.

It's a LEGO Yoda movie that's going direct to DVD.

[cool breeze]

[chronovore]

That looks great, but I am afraid we have just seen every major scene from the entire movie. The whole YouTube should be considered a spoiler!

[Great Rumbler]

One of Harry's spies saw "Yoda Chronicles" on a white board at Lucasfilm and thought he had a scoop.

It's a LEGO Yoda movie that's going direct to DVD.

As THR first reported, Kasdan and Kinberg are working on separate films that will serve as spinoffs of the main new trilogy. Iger told CNBC that the pair are "working on films derived from great Star Wars characters that are not part of the overall saga, so we still plan to make Star Wars VII, VIII and IX roughly over a six-year period of time starting in 2015. But there are going to be a few other films released in that period of time, too."

Eat it.

[Cormacaroni]

why does everything have to be a fucking trilogy

[Cormacaroni]

don't bother answering, all i want is sympathy

[Cormacaroni]

good point

[The Sceneman]

Fear of a Black Hat, the other early 90s hip hop mockumentary.  Good moments but not as slick as CB4.

A couple of laughs in that film but a lot of the humor is very dated. CB4 is indeed superior.

Not strictly related but "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" is a classic from around the same time

[Great Rumbler]

I think the first planned trilogy was Star Wars, although I didn't think they advertised it as such at the time. It's definitely become a phenomenon recently, even extending into the realm of videogames.

[Cormacaroni]

6-plus years is far too long to wait for the conclusion of some trivial little space opera fluff...it creates this huge weight of expectation that is almost inevitably dashed.

[Great Rumbler]

With a few changes and little bit added to the final scenes, Star Wars could have easily been a single movie. Though the idea of just doing one movie went out the window really early in the development of the story.

[chronovore]

With a few changes and little bit added to the final scenes, Star Wars could have easily been a single movie. Though the idea of just doing one movie went out the window really early in the development of the story.

I want to see that 90-minute version of the Prequels which Topher Grace did for his own studies.
http://www.slashfilm.com/topher-grace-edited-star-wars-prequels-85minute-movie/
I like the idea of taking all that unnecessary crap and bad pacing and then dashing it against the rocks of a good editing board.

[cool breeze]

Dredd is awesome

pew pe wjudgment pewIAM THE LAW

[Groogrux]

One of Harry's spies saw "Yoda Chronicles" on a white board at Lucasfilm and thought he had a scoop.

It's a LEGO Yoda movie that's going direct to DVD.

As THR first reported, Kasdan and Kinberg are working on separate films that will serve as spinoffs of the main new trilogy. Iger told CNBC that the pair are "working on films derived from great Star Wars characters that are not part of the overall saga, so we still plan to make Star Wars VII, VIII and IX roughly over a six-year period of time starting in 2015. But there are going to be a few other films released in that period of time, too."

Eat it.

The spinoffs make me nervous.  If this shit becomes so diluted like the X-Men movies and all of their spinoffs, then there really is no hope for the franchise.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a Yoda origins story, but I don't think we need a full-length feature film for it.

[Don Flamenco]

i watched CB4 last year...still good.  That SNL period spawned some good movies.  Wayne's World, Chris Farley's movies, Sandler's good movies, coneheads (actually I don't remember how good this movie was...)

[ManaByte]

Monty Python reunites, Robin Williams replaces Graham Chapman:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118049265/

Plans are for filming to begin in the U.K. this spring, with the Pythons voicing key roles as a a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything" to see what a mess he'll make of things -- which is precisely what happens. There's also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does. Robin Williams will voice the character.

[Great Rumbler]

Please be good, please be good, please be good...