Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Madrun Badrun]

Mickey Mouse is about to become a public property so they are trying to use him

[Himu]

Beyond the Frozen short?

[Phoenix Dark]

http://m.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/how-to-adapt-em-the-jungle-book-em-and-not-make-it-racist/280292/

The movie version from the 90s wasn't particularly racist, I'd imagine this one won't be either.

[Himu]

I didn't say jungle book was racist. I just posted it because it was relevant.

[Himu]

I forgot about that.



Taken off amazon wishlist.

Either way, it's not like it's the core of the story and could easily just be edited out.

[Phoenix Dark]

Why take if off your Amazon wishlist?

[Tasty]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/31/5953069/deadpool-film-pg-13

The brilliant screenplay has been equally brilliantly modified.... R is not a blockade any longer.

— robertliefeld (@robertliefeld) July 30, 2014

I wouldn't trust Liefeld as far as I can throw him...

[Himu]

(non Pixar because those guys suck now)

And I thought I was binary.

It's true, though. Pixar has been awful recently.

[Eric P]

the not character stuff of guardians was pretty bland however the character stuff was excellent
i'd watch a tv show of guardians, but as a movie, eh.  It's kind of Marvel Flat in that Thor 2 way.  There's really no build up of the stakes and the villain design is that techno-goth Marvel stuff we've thus far seen in all of the "cosmic" elements of the Marvel films.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

(non Pixar because those guys suck now)

And I thought I was binary.

It's true, though. Pixar has been awful recently.

What about (thinks) uh... Ratatouille?

[Great Rumbler]

Haters got owner hard, GotG was hella fun and I will definitely go watch the sequel. It's basically what the Star War Prequel Trilogy should have been but wasn't because Lucas is a giant butt.

Eat it, PD.

[Himu]

(non Pixar because those guys suck now)

And I thought I was binary.

It's true, though. Pixar has been awful recently.

What about (thinks) uh... Ratatouille?

That wasn't recent. Didn't that come out in 2006? I think they hit a bump with Cars, but their quality went down with Up and it's been downspiraling since. Cars 2, Planes, Planes: Fire and Rescue, Brave, Monsters University were all mediocre or really bad. Only Toy Story 3 has been okay-ish in their time since Up.

Notice all of those sequels. What are they working on now? The Incredibles 2.

Pixar used to be must watch for me. Now they're lucky I even rent their movies at Redbox these days.

[Joe Molotov]

Planes movies weren't Pixar, they were DisneyToon, Disney's Direct-to-Video outfit. (which the Planes movie were originally supposed to be)

[Himu]

Whoops you're right. That still leaves Monsters University, Brave, Up, Cars 2. Utter shame what happened to their movie quality after Wall-E and Ratatoille.

[Great Rumbler]

Notice all of those sequels. What are they working on now? The Incredibles 2.

Their next two movies are Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, due in summer and winter of next year, respectively.

[Joe Molotov]

They've gone two non-sequels coming out next year. I'm not gonna write them off just yet.

[Himu]

Oh that's good. I read Incredibles 2 was their next movie. Guess I'll eat crow on that one and I'll see them with an open mind.

[Himu]

can we please start treating pd with movies the way we treat andrex with games and me with politics

[Himu]

Up had a great intro and little else.

It was a casuality of American cartoons always needing to be some fucking goddamn comedy.

A heart breaking story about a widower who comes to grips with he and his wife's unfulfilled dream turns into a story with talking dogs, comical super villains, asian boy scouts. Great premise; awful execution.

[fistfulofmetal]

yeah, Up was butt.

Pixar's best thing is Wall-E

[Beezy]

People thought Monster U was mediocre?

[Himu]

yeah, Up was butt.

Pixar's best thing is Wall-E

Agreed, boo. Up put me to fucking sleep.

[Himu]

Up felt like a wannabe Ghibli film. The intro was on point and contained a lot of humanism and charm in its writing and animation. The Ghbli inspiration is off the charts. I certainly feel like they tried that with the rest of the film, but did so while implementing an American cartoon style, which doesn't really mesh with me.

[Phoenix Dark]

people hating on Up now?

[Kara]

Know nothing about Pixar movies.

[Joe Molotov]

Guardians of the Galaxy

[fistfulofmetal]

like what Himu said, Up became butt when it turned into a dumb slapstick movie with talking animals and the awful 'villain'. ruined the sincere tone it had before.

[Phoenix Dark]

like what Himu said, Up became butt when it turned into a dumb slapstick movie with talking animals and the awful 'villain'. ruined the sincere tone it had before.

I disagree, and felt that stuff fit perfectly with the general theme of rediscovering the adventures of your youth.

[fistfulofmetal]

  they could have done that without all the dumb stuff

[jakefromstatefarm]

Up is straight up emotionally manipulative porn. Those first 20 minutes feel like Pixar is just proving they can make you take an existential kick in the nuts and still sit there and swallow their sentimentally drenched load. Fuck that movie's cutesy characters, fuck it's invasive pathos, and fuck it's critical acclaim.

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And fuck Wall-E too

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[Tasty]

My favorite Pixar movie is Ratatouille or The Incredibles.

[Himu]

My favorites are Wall-E, Monsters INC, and Toy Story 1.

[cool breeze]

My favorite Pixar movie is Ratatouille or The Incredibles.

I...completely agree.  I hate this feeling.

[Tasty]

My favorite is Ratatouille.  Also really enjoy Toy Story 2.  Incredibles is really good but there's a kind of icky Randian Objectivist current running through the whole thing.

I thought TS1 was only OK, but I also dug TS2. Haven't seen 3.

Didn't pick up on that during my watch of Incredibles, I just really liked the idea, writing, and characters.

[Tasty]

My favorite Pixar movie is Ratatouille or The Incredibles.

I...completely agree.  I hate this feeling.

We are the same, fryinghigh, in more ways than this. 

[Great Rumbler]

I really liked that they didn't try to cram a bunch of Earth stuff into GotG. I really hate that about pretty much every superhero movie that has space stuff, especially Green Lantern [which was excruciatingly awful regardless] and Thor. I want to see more of the cool space stuff, not boring buildings in some generic Earth city getting blasted by aliens.

[Himu]

I didn't like Toy Story 2 much. I felt 3 was much better than 2 as well.

[Tasty]

Been a while since I watched TS2 but if I remember it right, it probably cloys at the hearstrings a bit too much.

[Himu]

It just felt forced to me. It's still a really good movie, but I guess I went in with expectations of Toy Story 1, whose themes resonated a lot more with me when it came out (I was 10 shut up)

[Tasty]

See, TS1 just didn't click with me. Maybe those lowered expectations caused me to like TS2 more than I otherwise would have.

[Himu]

I don't think TS2 or 3 are approaching 1, but 3 is really close for me. It's just a really charming and beautiful movie, and it got me to cry multiple times.

[Himu]

While true, I just meant that the story resonated more with me when I was younger and I had my own toys, I guess.

[a slime appears]

I thought Bug's Life looked so bloody awful that I've still have never seen it. I've also not seen Monsters University because it looked like a cheap cash in and Cars 2 taught me that Pixar clearly doesn't give a shit anymore about sequels.

[Phoenix Dark]

The first time I watched Up with my little cousins they kept asking "is the red girl going to meet him again?" in reference to the old guy's wife. I'd tell them no, she died...and one of my cousins said "but that's not supposed to happen."

[Himu]

[a slime appears]

I'm not as crazy about Guardians as a lot of people but that was a really fun movie. I'm genuinely impressed by the director's / script writer's ability to turn a movie about a of shit comic book vomit no one has ever heard about into a genuinely compelling and interesting two and half hours of film.

Avengers had more impressive action sequences with characters I recognize and like but GotG is more consistent movie with no real dull points.

[a slime appears]

I thought Bug's Life looked so bloody awful that I've still have never seen it. I've also not seen Monsters University because it looked like a cheap cash in and Cars 2 taught me that Pixar clearly doesn't give a shit anymore about sequels.

Bug's Life is a pretty ordinary kid's version of Seven Samurai mashed with Three Amigos.  It's far from Pixar's best, but I don't think it's that bad at all.

Yeah, I was a dumb kid that thought "HOW COULD A MOVIE ABOUT INSECTS BE GOOD?" yet happily watched a film about talking toys, lol.

Seven Samurai + Three Amigos sounds incredible though. I need to totally watch it with the family.

[Himu]

I thought Bug's Life looked so bloody awful that I've still have never seen it. I've also not seen Monsters University because it looked like a cheap cash in and Cars 2 taught me that Pixar clearly doesn't give a shit anymore about sequels.

Bug's Life is a pretty ordinary kid's version of Seven Samurai mashed with Three Amigos.  It's far from Pixar's best, but I don't think it's that bad at all.

Yeah, I was a dumb kid that thought "HOW COULD A MOVIE ABOUT INSECTS BE GOOD?" yet happily watched a film about talking toys, lol.

Seven Samurai + Three Amigos sounds incredible though. I need to totally watch it with the family.

I loved Dreamworks' Antz.

[Tasty]

I loved Antz.

It almost definitely doesn't hold up, though.

[Madrun Badrun]

is 'merked' good?

[Great Rumbler]

My parents bought me Antz on VHS, but then made me stop watching it because it had swears. Same thing with the Casper movie, too.

[TakingBackSunday]

Guardians of the Galaxy is the best Marvel movie since the original Iron Man, in my eyes.  Great characters, light-hearted fun, and awesome ties to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  Exodus nailed it for me--this felt like the best Star Wars movie since ROTJ.

Pratt, Cooper, and especially Batista were great.  Saldana was by-the-book, but obviously dayum-looking.  This is coming from someone unfamiliar with the comics, but I'm definitely picking up some issues now.  They're dirt cheap right now.

I really hope some aspects and characters of Guardians makes their way into Avengers 2.  Pratt with RDJ would be comedy gold.

[Madrun Badrun]

No GoG in Avengers 2 I believe.  But GoG2 is going the be a prequel to AV3, which means there may or may not be Pratt with RDJ depending on how much RDJ likes money.

[Tasty]

My parents bought me Antz on VHS, but then made me stop watching it because it had swears. Same thing with the Casper movie, too.

My parents either weren't around or didn't care about stuff like that.

"The BITCH is back!"

[TakingBackSunday]

Aw, I think Whedon fits well with the franchise.  I'd rather they grab directors like Whedon and Gunn to do movies like that.

[Phoenix Dark]

I saw Casper in a public school auditorium in Detroit. I don't remember why I was able to go since I was homeschooled, but I remember the kids weren't nice at all. They kept asking if I was distinguished mentally-challenged or something, since I "didn't go to school."

[Tasty]

I saw Casper in a public school auditorium in Detroit. I don't remember why I able to go since I was homeschooled, but I remember the kids weren't nice at all. They kept asking if I was distinguished mentally-challenged or something, since I "didn't go to school."

Well, what was your answer?

[Himu]

[Tasty]

if only theyd get rid of Joss Whedon

The fuck?

[Himu]

if only theyd get rid of Joss Whedon

I think a lot of avenger's quality can be owed to Whedon. Whedon knows comics, and has written for marvel many times. He's also a seasoned director. He was a perfect fit and as such, managed to craft - pre-GOTG I guess - one of if not the most traditionally comic book adaptations on film, a feat many claimed was impossible prior to the Avengers.

Who do you want to replace Whedon with? A non-comic book fan director? Fuck that.