Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Tasty]

There's two shots of her, but yeah, not much, same for Jubilee. No Wolverine either.

What press?

[Phoenix Dark]

Someone explain how Wolverine/Hugh Jackson can be in the movie with young Xavier n other young versions of characters.

[Tasty]

Someone explain how Wolverine/Hugh Jackson can be in the movie with young Xavier n other young versions of characters.

Wolverine was born in like the late 1800s and has delayed aging due to his regenerative capabilities.

[Phoenix Dark]

Someone explain how Wolverine/Hugh Jackson can be in the movie with young Xavier n other young versions of characters.

Wolverine was born in like the late 1800s and has delayed aging due to his regenerative capabilities.

So he forgot he met Xavier in the 1990s? What year is Apocalypse set in.

[Tasty]

Days of Future Past altered the timeline, radically in some cases. The most pertinent way is that Mystique posing as Stryker finds an unconscious Wolverine at the end of that movie, not Stryker himself.

Apocalypse takes place in 1983.

[Madrun Badrun]

PD trying, but Tasty Meat is not letting him get in.

[Tasty]

Sorry, PD's so dumb sometimes I can't tell when he's being dumb for fake.

[Madrun Badrun]

It takes a lot of intelligence to look dumb.  Just look at my posts. 

[Purrp Skirrp]

Grandma's Boy is fucking awful. Scust @ my friends and GF laughing at this

[Atramental]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/13/10034926/independence-day-resurgence-trailer-jeff-goldblum

 

[Madrun Badrun]

You're garbage

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya but that's just cause my porn links are great. 

[Phoenix Dark]

My parents didn't let me watch Independence Day as a kid due to Will Smith talking back to authority figures too much in the film. I don't think I've ever seen the entire movie.

[Joe Molotov]

My parents didn't let me watch Independence Day as a kid due to Will Smith talking back to authority figures too much in the film. I don't think I've ever seen the entire movie.

Also, his gf is a stripper that he saved. 

[chronovore]

Ya but that's just cause my porn links are great.

[Samson Manhug]

I saw Independence Day in theaters with my dad (my pick) at 10 years old and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. What a movie.

[G The Resurrected]

I remember reading the novelisation of the movie while waiting in line for evening premiere. There was so many people waiting to see that movie on the first day. But then again so did Godzilla.... At least Independence day was a good movie unlike that trash.

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I secretly like Godzilla and all of these dumb Emmerich movies.

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[team filler]

I saw Independence Day in theaters with my dad (my pick) at 10 years old and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. What a movie.

have a dad brehs

[brawndolicious]

James Bond: The Last One

I saw this a couple weeks ago in theaters and I honestly don't remember shit about it. I remember one of the Bond girls was this latin cougary woman and there was another one who was younger and could have been blond or something else for all I remember. As far as the story, I remember that Bond was being a rogue because he created some chaos at a parade in Mexico City but I honestly can't remember who the bad guy was. And there was a classic Aston Martin. Whether this means the movie or the reviewer is flawed is up to you. I think I enjoyed it a bit though.

?/10

[Tasty]

Behind the Candelabra was pretty great. Not much of a point to it and I wouldn't have checked it out if not for Michael Douglas (who I'll watch anything for) and Matt Damon. Both are really great here, although obviously the subject matter might be "too gay" for a lot of people. I liked it well enough.

Also HOLY SHIT Robe Lowe out of nowhere was fricking hilarious.

[Rahxephon91]

Will Smith's character is dead lol.

[ToxicAdam]

My parents didn't let me watch Independence Day as a kid due to Will Smith talking back to authority figures too much in the film. I don't think I've ever seen the entire movie.

I bet your parents logic didn't carry over to other films. Did you get to watch 80's movies like Footloose or Ferris Buehlers Day Off?

[Tasty]

http://nerdreactor.com/2015/07/17/x-men-apocalypse-stills-storm-etc/

Then we have Nightcrawler, who is “rescued by Raven and becomes a source of comic relief.”

WE'RE GETTING EVOLUTION NIGHTCRAWLER

[toku]

MOTY 2016

[benjipwns]

I was thinking it'd be great if Independence Day came out of relatively nowhere to actually be a great action sci-fi film, even if a little dopey, after what has felt like a long string of films that fail at both, often up their own asses because of some dumb twist it's going out of the way to hide, and all the ever escalating destruction blockbusters that came in the wake of the original. Especially since I doubt few of the returnees involved are going in thinking of high expectations of anything other than box office pull and have more free reign to make a sequel they want to but with an absurd budget.

Then I read there's already two sequels planned and the new cast additions are signed on for those.

I just hope that this wave of revivals (Jurassic World, Star Wars, etc.) along with Stallone finally finishing off Creed and The Expendables wrapping up means that we can put Hollywood on hold for a year and get all hands on deck for the $1 billion budget Taco Bell presents Taco Bell's Demolition Man 2: A Taco Bell Film.

[toku]

I actually rewatched Demolition Man again recently and it holds up so well & might even be better than I remembered it. A lot of the jokes still land and Wesley Snipes has never given this sort of performance again. Also, a pleasant Rob Schneider! I'd love to know why the director did nothing again. I think he was some kind of gallery photographer or something? But Demolition Man is his only film.

I guess when you knock it out the park on your first shot you might as well hang it up early.

[benjipwns]

Don't forget how he seamlessly wove Dennis Leary's regular standup routine into the dialogue of the film.

[VomKriege]

I actually rewatched Demolition Man again recently and it holds up so well & might even be better than I remembered it. A lot of the jokes still land and Wesley Snipes has never given this sort of performance again. Also, a pleasant Rob Schneider! I'd love to know why the director did nothing again. I think he was some kind of gallery photographer or something? But Demolition Man is his only film.

I guess when you knock it out the park on your first shot you might as well hang it up early.

It's not his only film. His career as a film director was sparse. Sometimes Hollywood goes for weird bets, like Robert Longo doing Johnny Mnemonic.

[benjipwns]

I seem to remember Excess Baggage as not being all that bad. Not great, but decent enough.

Marco Brambilla is a Milan-born, New York City-based video collage and installation artist, known for his elaborate recontextualizations of popular and found imagery, which Vanity Fair praises as “critiques and masterpieces of visual overload.”

That quote certainly describes Demolition Man.

[benjipwns]

[Joe Molotov]

The Pearl Harbor for our generation.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

The Pearl Harbor for our generation.

you mean Pearl Harbor, the movie, of course.

Bay's got such a hard on for the military he'd probably make a pro-Kent State shooting film from the National Guard perspective if he figure out how.

[Yeti]

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

guys, go to a 3D screening of In the Heart of the Sea as soon as you can (its sinking like an anchor dragged deck scrubber at the box office, and some, um, other movie is coming out soon). Its a seriously fantastic viewing experiance and it well deserves your attention. Yes, its a Ron Howard film (but its miles ahead visually of anything he's ever done before) the poet laureate of middlebrow tastes, and yes the mainstream friendly maritime epic that unfolds doesn't really tread and new ground, or chart new waters if you will. But it doesn't matter, its a sturdy, very well done meat & potatos seabound adventure/survival pic, and all its creaky storytelling and superficial performances don't really matter when what the film is really about is the spectacular views of the roaring ocean, the plunging harpoons into a whale's back, or the glint of the sunset on a bedraggled face. Nothing about this film will surprise you, expect just how gawd-dang awesome it all looks. That was enough for me.

PS: The 3D in this film kicks arse. This film will disappoint at home, on a big canvas its pretty swell.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

So, Spike Lee is still angry about the sorry state of the world, and Chi-Raq communicates that well, but it also communicates his per usual crazy and overreaching artistic ambition and something else he hasn't indulged in for some time, an entertaining front. While its not hectoring its audience about the inequities and social ills of today, its honestly makes for a pretty damn good time. Did I expect to be singing the praises of a Nick Cannon lead performance, well no, but I wasn't expecting most of the film's dialog to be in rhyming verse either. There's just so many delightful surprises in this film, and its frequently quite funny (Wesley Snipes, among others, is a hoot in this), and it immediately acknowledges and honestly honors its roots as an adaptation of an ancient and raunchy satire of the Peloponnesian War. So yeah, its a crazy-quilt of stylistic and thematic influences that could have been a trainwreck, but is actually a lot of fun.

[brob]

 

[Great Rumbler]

Was it as good as Her? I think that's the best Spike Lee film to date.

I know it's not well regarded, but I really enjoyed his take on the Hulk.

[Tasty]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/runtime-revealed-for-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice

According to the site selling the tickets, "Batman v Superman" will run 151 minutes, or two hours and 31 minutes. That makes it about eight minutes longer than "Man of Steel", which had a runtime of 143 minutes, or two hours and 23 minutes.

Yay...

[Mupepe]

Awesome to hear. I can't wait to see it in 70mm next week.

[Mupepe]

Sounds great. I get to look at Cavill's chiseled features for another 8 minutes.

[Beezy]

Thanks, trying to convince my friends to see the 70mm version some time this coming weekend.

[chronovore]

Samuel L. Jackson's best role in a loooooooooong time, btw. He was the best character by far as much as I thought Hangman was the coolest still. I really think he should win awards for this, and I know exactly why he won't when it pertains to this flick.

Jennifer Jason Leigh would have stolen the goddamn show if it wasn't for Jackson. She was phenomenal.

Jennifer Jason Leigh has always been phenomenal, and has always been underappreciated, largely due to her penchant for genre work.

[TakingBackSunday]

zzzzz

[toku]

Excited for this.

[ToxicAdam]

Finally saw Trainwreck. I wanted to love it, but was completely let down by it.

Too cynical and felt like a movie written by a man into a forced female perspective. Especially that first 30 minutes. Nothing rings true, so nothing is really funny. There are some great lines, but nothing that coalesces into great scenes.

Schumer is okay and has a few great moments (the funeral and the dancing scene), but the supporting cast is what really does well. Colin Quinn, Dave Attel, her younger sister (Brie something) and Lebron James (a few moments) actually bring a warmth to the movie that everyone else seems to lack.

[Tasty]

Trainwreck was written by Amy Schumer. (Haven't seen the movie but I read the first 30% of the screenplay, and I thought it was hilarious.) Though I heard many of the best moments were ad-libbed.

[Mandark]

Thought it was funny but it REALLY suffered from the usual romantic comedy third act stuff.

Wonder if Apatow had any input into the script, cause by the end it felt closer to Knocked Up than it did anything else I've seen of Schumer's.

[ToxicAdam]

Trainwreck was written by Amy Schumer. (Haven't seen the movie but I read the first 30% of the screenplay, and I thought it was hilarious.) Though I heard many of the best moments were ad-libbed.

I know she is credited for writing it, and there are huge chunks that feel ripped from her act, but she never feels like a real person. Compare her "screw up" character to the lead character in Bridesmaids and it's not even close. Nor does the humor ever go far beyond role reversal or physical humor (usually involving sexual situations).

In the end, it played it safe when it could have went further. They touch on making fun of sports culture, but kind of drop it as the movie goes. They touch on some sexism themes, but never really go there either. The movie just never gets any momentum. Too many roadblocks. They could have cut every scene from her workplace and the movie would have been better for it.

[brob]

So, given the poor selection on the norwegian netflix (now that my previously free vpn decided to charge a fee ) I decided to check out popcorn time which is apparently a thing my brother uses often and finds good enough, even though I let him use my netflix subscription. I can't say I really understand how it works. there are seeds listed for the various files (john wick 720p, john wick 1080p, etc.) but I don't really understand who is seeding. are they just popular torrent files? That would probably explain why most of the slightly less popular stuff I tried to watch was very slow to buffer or just straight up didn't work.

anyway, I saw the third hobbit film and was very surprised to see that the dragon dies in what seems like the ten first minutes or so. I guess it's the hook for getting people to pay to see the third film, which was wildly flimsy imo. I read the book once as a child, but I can't remember much, let alone what happens after the dragon dies, but I imagine a lot of what takes place in the film is just made for the film since it's basically just fan service reams of characters from lotr doing cool moves or foreshadowing the events of lotr.

I also saw John Wick which was kinda ok, though I felt like I could probably just have seen Payback again and been better off.

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya I think popcorn is just a wrapper for torrent for lay people. 

I also saw John Wick which was kinda ok, though I felt like I could probably just have seen Payback again and been better off.

SMH

[Mupepe]

So, given the poor selection on the norwegian netflix (now that my previously free vpn decided to charge a fee ) I decided to check out popcorn time which is apparently a thing my brother uses often and finds good enough, even though I let him use my netflix subscription. I can't say I really understand how it works. there are seeds listed for the various files (john wick 720p, john wick 1080p, etc.) but I don't really understand who is seeding. are they just popular torrent files? That would probably explain why most of the slightly less popular stuff I tried to watch was very slow to buffer or just straight up didn't work.

anyway, I saw the third hobbit film and was very surprised to see that the dragon dies in what seems like the ten first minutes or so. I guess it's the hook for getting people to pay to see the third film, which was wildly flimsy imo. I read the book once as a child, but I can't remember much, let alone what happens after the dragon dies, but I imagine a lot of what takes place in the film is just made for the film since it's basically just fan service reams of characters from lotr doing cool moves or foreshadowing the events of lotr.

I also saw John Wick which was kinda ok, though I felt like I could probably just have seen Payback again and been better off.

I wouldn't call any of the third movie fan service. I don't know any fan that liked or wanted it. That movie was god awful.

[benjipwns]

 

[chronovore]

So, given the poor selection on the norwegian netflix (now that my previously free vpn decided to charge a fee ) I decided to check out popcorn time which is apparently a thing my brother uses often and finds good enough, even though I let him use my netflix subscription. I can't say I really understand how it works. there are seeds listed for the various files (john wick 720p, john wick 1080p, etc.) but I don't really understand who is seeding. are they just popular torrent files? That would probably explain why most of the slightly less popular stuff I tried to watch was very slow to buffer or just straight up didn't work.

anyway, I saw the third hobbit film and was very surprised to see that the dragon dies in what seems like the ten first minutes or so. I guess it's the hook for getting people to pay to see the third film, which was wildly flimsy imo. I read the book once as a child, but I can't remember much, let alone what happens after the dragon dies, but I imagine a lot of what takes place in the film is just made for the film since it's basically just fan service reams of characters from lotr doing cool moves or foreshadowing the events of lotr.

I also saw John Wick which was kinda ok, though I felt like I could probably just have seen Payback again and been better off.

I wouldn't call any of the third movie fan service. I don't know any fan that liked or wanted it. That movie was god awful.

I'm a fan of The Hobbit novel, and only a middling enthusiast of Tolkien's oeuvre, so forgive any mistakes: The Radagast, Saruman, and the bulk of Gandalf's appearances were taken from other Tolkien books and added to the continuity. I think Kili and Tauriel, probably the most likable characters other than Frodo, were also created whole cloth for the films (I am most likely wrong here). In the book, after Smaug is killed, the people of Lake Town go back to rebuilding. I'm also recalling no dickbaggery with the sovereign Master of Lake Town. Pretty sure someone said, "We liked Wormtongue!" so Alfrid was birthed and attached to Stephen Fry.

I watched all three Hobbit movies with my boy recently, and was surprised to enjoy them. I cried at Thorin's speech at the end of the last movie; it was just lovely. However, now my son and I are watching LOTR and it is just stunning at how much better and rollicking and swashbuckling and filthy and fun the LOTR works are in comparison.

[benjipwns]

Low Key 3 days ago
 they're really trying to make a comedy....about the middle east....during a war....after what happened so far in 2015...  o_0 wow hollywood

Napoleon Clark 4 days ago
 Fey has an opportunity to explore serious issues happening overseas and decides instead to make a fucking comedy movie about it...

Here's the book it's based on, though a 30 Rock writer/producer is the one who made the script out of it:

[Phoenix Dark]

white privilege amirite 

[brob]

I wouldn't call any of the third movie fan service. I don't know any fan that liked or wanted it. That movie was god awful.

just because it failed to make anyone bust a nut doesn't mean it wasn't seriously invested in dealing out handjobs. that scene where galadriel, elron and saruman fought ghost knights to free gandalf while the big sauron eye was mean mugging was like some cancer child had asked the make a wish foundation to film their fan fic.

[ToxicAdam]

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[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

The Big Short and Spotlight both thread the needle rather well in being films about kinda complicated, murky issues and presenting them as compelling films. They also sort of give the short shrift to the characters that inhabit them, while certain characters act as little more then personified feelings of mounting dread as the scope of malfeasance only grows wider and wider.

Spotlight has an easier time of it, telling a more conventional story. It really digs down into the nuts and bolts aspects of investigative journalism, and its really absorbing stuff, its essentially a workplace drama and darn near everything in the film is about the job at hand before its about the people doing the job. There's lots of great performances from a dang near perfect cast, its the kind of prestige picture that's conventional but is actually worth a damn. The Big Short tells not only the story of people who realize that the financial market is about to crash, but also how that came to be in the first place. Its the next best primer on the housing meltdown to "The Giant Pool of Money", and this has the benefit of having obnoxious hedge fund bros and unctuous bankers as the villains.

Both films are about misplaced trust of people and the authoritative institutions that abuse them. Spotlight brings an understated artistry to it as well as a high degree of competence, The Big Short is clever but not entirely successful at everything it does, but I liked it more (they're both dang fine films though). I'll take the ambitious but flawed film over the more conventional (but still great) film pretty much any day of the week.

[VomKriege]

Unfortunately, Salt wasn't a movie about Angelina Jolie joining a message board to declare allegiance to the PC Master Race. It is instead a thoroughly stupid Bourne lookalike intersped with some of the most trite love story you can imagine (Jolie being paired with some no name with the charisma of a milk cartoon and ten lines tops). And wow Soviet super duper deep moles (running circles around the whole hapless security apparatus of the USA) and total Red Scare vibe in 2010, really ?

(Also a progress bar on nuke launch ? WUT)



Has to be seen to be believed.

[Bebpo]

Watched Sin City 2 since it was free on Prime with a 7 day trial of Showtime.  Was pretty bad.  The directing was stylish and yet at the point where it's so overdone almost nothing is stylish and the stories this time around are pretty damn weak compared to the original (but Frank Miller's writing these days is pretty bad, so not surprising).  Also watching it I felt like the movie was fairly bothersomely sexist where women can't do anything except be a lure for guys or a prostitute and reading some reviews yeah that got complained about a lot.  I really liked the original Sin City, and I even thought The Spirit was fun camp with style, but this was a pass.