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« Reply #27300 on: July 19, 2017, 07:05:19 PM »
That trailer looks great. I'm so stoked that it seems like a much smaller film. Crimson Peak has good aspects but is ultimately disappointing.

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« Reply #27301 on: July 19, 2017, 08:23:06 PM »
Yeah, Crimson Peak was OKish. It just didn't feel like a Del Toro movie. Like, at all.

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« Reply #27302 on: July 20, 2017, 02:19:46 AM »


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« Reply #27304 on: July 20, 2017, 04:26:31 AM »
Oh oh oh, this looks so interesting! Same director as Pan's Labyrinth too. Paging Mupepe

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« Reply #27305 on: July 20, 2017, 06:44:26 AM »
Yessum!'i can't wait for that. I think Chrono posted the trailer in the other movie thread last night. It looks like such a small, intimate story so I'm super excited.

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« Reply #27306 on: July 20, 2017, 09:17:15 AM »
Yessum!'i can't wait for that. I think Chrono posted the trailer in the other movie thread last night. It looks like such a small, intimate story so I'm super excited.

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« Reply #27307 on: July 20, 2017, 09:20:53 AM »
:lol

My first thought was "oh, shit, I'm going senile."

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« Reply #27308 on: July 20, 2017, 09:56:26 AM »
:lol I never keep track of which movie thread I'm in.  We really only need one I think.

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« Reply #27311 on: July 20, 2017, 04:36:16 PM »


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Looks like Amelie meets Pan's Labyrinth meets friendly Deep Ones.

Not feeling the CGI. But everything else looks interesting.

You know...I had never even seen a clip of the Creature From The Black Lagoon until a couple days ago. When I was a kid my mom made sure I saw all the Universal monster movies but I never saw that one. The clip I watched was actually pretty creepy (chick swimming while the monster stalked her underwater).
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« Reply #27313 on: July 20, 2017, 09:38:49 PM »
Ehh...I dunno. I mean, it probably won't be better than Alien Nation.
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« Reply #27314 on: July 20, 2017, 10:08:05 PM »
Man, Dunkirk is going to be divisive as hell for audiences. I can see why some wouldn't like it. I really liked it though. Very impressive from a technical perspective but very cold otherwise and feels detached. The pacing is strange but consistent start to finish.

My theater fucked up the 70mm projection and had to restart in regular. The difference was staggering and left me with a feeling like I missed something. So I'm gonna catch a digital Imax version but at least it will be in the right aspect ration.

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« Reply #27315 on: July 20, 2017, 10:17:05 PM »

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« Reply #27316 on: July 20, 2017, 10:25:35 PM »
To be fair, he says they haven't contacted him at all since he sold the script so who knows what they changed.

Also Chronicle and Dirk Gently are fantastic ya pleb. I also heard Channel Zero was good.

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« Reply #27317 on: July 21, 2017, 01:20:10 AM »



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« Reply #27319 on: July 21, 2017, 06:30:36 PM »
I hope we get dick. 

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« Reply #27320 on: July 21, 2017, 06:31:26 PM »
I hope we get dick.

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« Reply #27321 on: July 21, 2017, 06:31:52 PM »

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« Reply #27323 on: July 21, 2017, 09:44:32 PM »
How do you do that without Bruce?

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« Reply #27324 on: July 21, 2017, 09:53:55 PM »
I assumed after he dropped out directing and they tossed out his script they were deciding to have the Batman movies show how he got to the pissed at the world Batfleck point we see in BvS. So they'd cast someone younger anyway. And we'll have a Robin to get killed by The Joker and stuff.

Affleck can just play him in the Justice League films, by the time we get the second one out Cavill will have been playing Superman for a decade anyway. And we'll be fighting Darkseid and it'll be time to reboot.

Just do a soft-reboot where you keep all the younger actors but Batman and Superman got younger because blah blah blah Braniac anyway we gotta go punch someone.

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« Reply #27325 on: July 21, 2017, 09:55:56 PM »
Warner Bros. feel free to PM me with an offer for the story rights to that soft-reboot I just posted.

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« Reply #27326 on: July 21, 2017, 09:56:26 PM »
something something lazarus pit

I mean, whatever, it's a comic book superhero movie, nobody cares.
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« Reply #27327 on: July 21, 2017, 09:58:08 PM »
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« Reply #27328 on: July 21, 2017, 10:00:15 PM »
up and coming writer i have my eye on (no Amir0x) to do the scripts:

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« Reply #27329 on: July 21, 2017, 10:00:26 PM »



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Oh that's not good at all. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding about Ryuk and who he is, and who Light is as a character. I knew outlook was not good, but I didn't expect it to be THIS bad.
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« Reply #27330 on: July 21, 2017, 10:04:23 PM »
sorry bro i don't speak fucking weeb lmao

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« Reply #27331 on: July 21, 2017, 10:38:50 PM »
Dudes... Dunkirk is friggin great. Nolan made a horror film that also happens to be a distinctly British WWII picture. About as visceral as a PG-13 movie can get. Seeing it in IMAX was real treat, but even on a gigantic canvas the sprawl of the ocean or the horizon of a beach was made to feel claustrophobic and pants-wettingly scary. I even liked its coulda been lame artistic flourishes, like its 'Land-Sea-Air' triptych sort of storytelling device and its mostly incidental or absent dialog. There's a dang good chance it'll be the best big budget film I see this year. If nothing else, I'll bet that Tom Hardy was probably really stoked to get another chance to play an unintelligible character (cause planes are loud), so that's something.

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« Reply #27332 on: July 21, 2017, 10:44:27 PM »
Has anyone seen The Ornithologist? I think it made the film festival circuit rounds. I saw the trailer before Baby Driver and it looked pretty interesting.
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« Reply #27333 on: July 21, 2017, 10:51:47 PM »
Dudes... Dunkirk is friggin great. Nolan made a horror film that also happens to be a distinctly British WWII picture. About as visceral as a PG-13 movie can get. Seeing it in IMAX was real treat, but even on a gigantic canvas the sprawl of the ocean or the horizon of a beach was made to feel claustrophobic and pants-wettingly scary. I even liked its coulda been lame artistic flourishes, like its 'Land-Sea-Air' triptych sort of storytelling device and its mostly incidental or absent dialog. There's a dang good chance it'll be the best big budget film I see this year. If nothing else, I'll bet that Tom Hardy was probably really stoked to get another chance to play an unintelligible character (cause planes are loud), so that's something.
I went to see it on 70mm and they messed it up. So I'm watching it for a 2nd time in Imax tomorrow. I can't wait. I loved how the action scenes are not drug out set pieces. They're quick, fierce and have real impact. I don't think typical audiences will feel the same though. It's technically incredible, but very detached.

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« Reply #27334 on: July 21, 2017, 11:42:08 PM »
I thought the scene could work in an adaptation, but JESUS CHRIST is Light a horrible actor in it. They're fucking wasting Defoe and that's criminal. :goty

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« Reply #27335 on: July 21, 2017, 11:52:18 PM »
I thought the scene could work in an adaptation, but JESUS CHRIST is Light a horrible actor in it. They're fucking wasting Defoe and that's criminal. :goty
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« Reply #27336 on: July 22, 2017, 10:06:50 PM »


fuck that looks great

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« Reply #27337 on: July 22, 2017, 10:09:55 PM »
Also Captain Marvel has Skrulls and is set in the 90's

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« Reply #27338 on: July 23, 2017, 12:01:11 AM »

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« Reply #27339 on: July 23, 2017, 12:26:36 AM »


fuck that looks great

Looks infinitely better than the previous two Thor movies, that's for sure.

Also, OMG talking Hulk!! :omg
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« Reply #27340 on: July 23, 2017, 12:47:45 AM »


Looks likes another Snyder film.
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« Reply #27341 on: July 23, 2017, 01:12:02 AM »
I hard a hard time understanding some of the Bri'ish accents in Dunkirk but I thought it was a very good movie otherwise (saw the 70mm version)
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« Reply #27342 on: July 23, 2017, 01:19:42 AM »
Man, Dunkirk is going to be divisive as hell for audiences. I can see why some wouldn't like it. I really liked it though. Very impressive from a technical perspective but very cold otherwise and feels detached. The pacing is strange but consistent start to finish.

My theater fucked up the 70mm projection and had to restart in regular. The difference was staggering and left me with a feeling like I missed something. So I'm gonna catch a digital Imax version but at least it will be in the right aspect ration.

Saw it in IMAX today. It’s good and super well photographed and directed and whatnot, but it felt pretty superficial overall to me. It was an amusement park ride of a different sort than the kind of roller coaster we get from typical modern blockbusters. I have no real complaints, aside from the fact that you have to see it in IMAX since 70%+ of it was shot with IMAX cams, and that doesn’t work for home viewing.

Nolan’s best since The Prestige. At this point of the year, I’d be cool with him winning for best director next year. Going by the formula that you need to make two good movies to make up for every shitty one, he only has to make five more good movies to get his career back on track.
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« Reply #27343 on: July 23, 2017, 05:13:30 AM »
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« Reply #27344 on: July 23, 2017, 10:50:42 AM »


fuck that looks great

I am so on board with this movie.
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« Reply #27345 on: July 23, 2017, 12:18:22 PM »
Man, Dunkirk is going to be divisive as hell for audiences. I can see why some wouldn't like it. I really liked it though. Very impressive from a technical perspective but very cold otherwise and feels detached. The pacing is strange but consistent start to finish.

My theater fucked up the 70mm projection and had to restart in regular. The difference was staggering and left me with a feeling like I missed something. So I'm gonna catch a digital Imax version but at least it will be in the right aspect ration.

Saw it in IMAX today. It’s good and super well photographed and directed and whatnot, but it felt pretty superficial overall to me. It was an amusement park ride of a different sort than the kind of roller coaster we get from typical modern blockbusters. I have no real complaints, aside from the fact that you have to see it in IMAX since 70%+ of it was shot with IMAX cams, and that doesn’t work for home viewing.

Nolan’s best since The Prestige. At this point of the year, I’d be cool with him winning for best director next year. Going by the formula that you need to make two good movies to make up for every shitty one, he only has to make five more good movies to get his career back on track.
I went and rewatched it in IMAX and it us definitely a completely different experience. A ride is the perfect way to describe it. Like Gravity without the bullshit. I would say its his best film since The Prestige but not my favorite and probably the lease crowd pleasing film he has made since Insomnia.

I hard a hard time understanding some of the Bri'ish accents in Dunkirk but I thought it was a very good movie otherwise (saw the 70mm version)
The 2nd time around I caught a bunch of dialogue I missed that gave context to son of the more ??? character choices.

The dogfights are probably one of the best things I've ever experienced in a theater. The plane nerd in me was spooging hard.

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« Reply #27346 on: July 23, 2017, 11:05:11 PM »
caught Valerian on Friday, movie was so refreshing and fun. The main lead felt  miscast at first but I picked up the new compilation of the original french books and after checking it out, he seemed like he was a good fit. The visuals are simply amazing, the story is great but the movie kinda loses steam for a couple minutes in the third act, it's still very enjoyable.

Truly a special movie. Can't wait for the blu-ray.

It's worth watching, and it's a shame that the movie is getting ignored. We're doomed to super heroes movies forever.

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« Reply #27347 on: July 23, 2017, 11:08:41 PM »
Valerian is overstuffed, messy, a little sappy, resolutely old fashioned (like production code era) in many ways, and its a good darn time. Its chock full of callbacks to as many of his own films as Besson could cram in there, as well as damn near every ounce of visual design he could muster. But besides its constant cool looking but notably inauthentic effects, its other defiming trait is its gee-whiz sincerity. Its a breath of fresh air to see a movie that costs a New York Yankees operating cost that could be accurety described as 'breezy', maybe even sunny. Its not quite a Fifth Element reduex tho, its in many ways less ambitious than its obvious forebearer, and maybe a little better in a few ways too (nobody overstays their welcome here, Chris Tucker). Its amilabilty is a asset, but also a bit of a weakness, but I'll take flawed a little shaggy film as long as it offers enough mitigating factors. Getting to spend a few hours in Luc Besson's particular sort of uncynical and pop cultured brain was a good enough deal for me.



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« Reply #27348 on: July 23, 2017, 11:44:23 PM »
I liked Valerian and had a lot of fun watching it, though some parts dragged on too long [the part with Rhianna felt about twice as long as it really needed to be, and the constant cuts back to the general asking about what Valerian and Laureline were up to really messed up the flow of the movie and weren't interesting at all]. My initial reaction is that it wasn't as good as The Fifth Element, but it's been ages since I've seen it, so I really need to go back and watch it again sometime. Never really liked Valerian as a character or his actor, despite how much the movie tried, that would be my #2 complaint. Most of the rest of the cast ranged from okay to pretty great, lots of good characters sprinkled around even if most didn't get nearly enough screen time.

I would definitely watch a sequel, but unless it really cleans up in the overseas markets that's not gonna happen.
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« Reply #27349 on: July 24, 2017, 01:05:25 AM »
lol slow (was previous page for me)
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« Reply #27350 on: July 24, 2017, 01:27:22 AM »
Fabricated City: A batshit insane and overly sincere Korean, action, mystery, wish fulfillment fantasy about a professional e-sports competitor who is framed for murder, but his team steps in to save him. A fun ride, butinconsistent and sappy.

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« Reply #27351 on: July 24, 2017, 01:30:13 AM »
Justice League clips keep making me think I'll like and dislike the same parts of it that I did BvS...mainly none of the major action outside of those two or three great shots Snyder always pulls off amidst the garbage like Wonder Woman's smirks or Batman in the warehouse, none of the actual overarching plot and villain stuff, but the tiny stuff, like Batman actually doing detective work, all the Bruce/Diana constant one-upping each other stuff, and then just the silly small world building moments like Gordon meeting the team in a quippy way ("it may be temporary" - Bruce after Gordon and Aquaman both mock him...Flash being the only one still standing there and then also just bolting since Gordon's not going to say anything), plus everything involving Alfred

also, is like Lois Lane not going to be in this until she has to meet revived Clark or something :lol

not that i'm complaining about that last part really and i guess nobody is really going to these to see Amy Adams (even if she has the second best scene in MoS) but i feel like i haven't even seen a shot of her in these trailers...maybe like one shot of her looking at a "red sky" or something? we know why they're hiding Clark and all, and even Luthor, but i'd assume she's a high bill cast member even if a near non-role film wise like BvS but maybe not after Gadot has established she can dominate the required female slot at the top of the bill

regarding the other superhero trailer, it's great to finally get both a Thor movie and a Hulk movie in the MCU, and it's also another Loki team-up! (I mean, it would be, had there been other Thor movies where this kind of fun team-up between the two could happen) And I'm fine with Goldblum as more of a bit part like del Toro, I guess I won't complain about the expected speeding through the Planet Thor part since we have to get everybody back to Earth in time for Thanos and all after going through Ragnarok itself. Kinda wish it was two films now even though the Ragnarok part is probably not something that could standalone but fits that whole last act everything explodes through punching criteria.

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« Reply #27352 on: July 24, 2017, 01:53:43 AM »
Saw Dunkirk in IMAX and was cool. A different take on a war movie and the storylines were engaging and action setpieces were really good. Some great cinematography with the imax aspect ratio. The opening shot is amazing. Music was really good once you got past the subwoofer DOM DOM DOM DOM DOM that stuffs out the audio for half the movie. 

Also Imax prices are craaaazy, TWENTY THREE US DOLLARS. We've passed Japanese movie ticket prices!

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« Reply #27353 on: July 24, 2017, 02:18:35 AM »
look how much zack snyder brought of you, such a true auteur cape shit doesn't deserve him look at this fucking poster




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« Reply #27355 on: July 24, 2017, 10:06:51 AM »
Two things recently:

The Void
which was bad. Completely failed to live up to it's excellent practical effects. It's pretty boring and does nothing with it's premise until maybe the last 30 minutes which were still pretty dull.

Train To Busan which was pretty great. Excellent take on zombie fiction. Really great zombie actors. I love the beginning of these kind of movies and watching the sequence of events of people slowly realizing what's happening. This does that really well. Some really fun sequences and a well told story.
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« Reply #27356 on: July 24, 2017, 10:25:37 AM »
I'm excited to see Valerian. I've really only gotten into French comics over the past two years, and the ~6 volumes of Valerian and Laureline have all been a ton of fun, so the timing of Valerian's release couldn't be better.

I don't really like any Besson movies outside of Nikita and Leon (but I love them), but the subject matter fits and The Fifth Element was at least competently done enough that I have confidence he could make a Valerian I like.

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I guess I kinda liked his Joan of Arc movie, or at least think it didn't deserve the drubbing it received. I guess the FINAL JUDGEMENT on it is that if you're going to see a Joan of Arc movie to see, there's a far, far, far better one so this may as well not even exist. Making another Joan of Arc movie after The Passion of Joan of Arc is kind of like trying to remake the Godfather or Robocop.
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« Reply #27357 on: July 24, 2017, 10:43:21 AM »
Valerian was pretty cool.
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« Reply #27358 on: July 24, 2017, 04:13:29 PM »
>I guess I kinda liked his Joan of Arc movie, or at least think it didn't deserve the drubbing it received


Yes! I think the movie was really well done and I've always had a soft spot for it.

 I even liked Besson's kids movie "Arthur and the Invisibles'. Wildly imaginative.