Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Great Rumbler]

Aw yeah, it's good to see the master back doing what he does best!

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Wolf Warrior was an amiably stupid action film that was met with some significant success in ts home country, but its sequel Wolf Warrior II, just smashed the all time record (which to be fair, has being reset at least once a year for the last decade) to become China's highest grossing film of all time. It joins the same list as London Has Fallen of 'politically noxious yet skillfully made action films'. The first film glorified the might and will of the Peoples Liberation Army and had them fight a bunch of sneering Westerners (Scott Adkins AKA 'Tomcat' got to keep his British accent for bonus points). It was as dumb as a box of hammers and about as blunt, but the action goods were there and the sincerity and silliness of it all was winning.

The sequel ups the ante by relocating the action to an unnamed country in Africa populated by chiefly by Chinese people and problematic depictions of the local populace. The White Savior trope isn't any more pleasent to take when the guy aint actually white. The action is still great, and the tradition of a ridicoulosly named big bad endures (Frank Grillo as 'Big Daddy'), but the setpieces are more stingily placed throughout a bloated running time, and the cultural hegemony it cheers for is a bitter pill to swallow. A wonderfully dumb post-credits scene teases another sequel, if they dial back the jingoism just a bit and have Keanu to play 'Leatherman' I'll be there.

[Great Rumbler]

Wolf Warrior II has made $680 million in China through just 3 weekends. 

It's only one of 2 movies in the top 200 grossing movies worldwide to make under $100 million in the US [it's made about 3 million], the other is The Mermaid, another Chinese movie.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

yeah, that was last year's Stephen Chow movie, and it was pretty great.

for reals tho, its nice to see Wu Jing have such massive success. He's an extraordinarily talented martial artist/physical performer who has an appealing earnestness to his acting performances. The guy is the real deal, but he didn't have a professional breakthrough until just a few years ago, after he was past 40 and spent nearly two decades in lower profile leading roles in films that bombed, or the 4th/5th billed guy (supporting action guy, main villain) in movies where he was the best action performer by far but wasn't allowed anywhere near the spotlight (I mean, shit man, Twins Mission fer crying out loud). If China is gonna go nuts for a not great movie, at least they're going nuts for a guy who was due some success and will make better films in the future.

Invisible Target and Wind Blast being the best of his 'not the star' days. Fatal Contact and Sha po lang2/Killzone 2 being his best leading role films.

the guy is awesome.



Fun Fact: Him and Donnie choreographed that scene on the spot (low budget production as it was).

[chronovore]

Was in a mood to cat-ass some horror, so I viewed:

Vanishing on 7th,  competently shot but poorly considered end of the world scenario which manages to have zero internal consistency. Hayden Christiansen can't seem to get a break from bad roles. Due to the Prequels, I know some people think he can't act, but I've seen a few films were he really does well. This isn't one of those.

The Devil -  I got this mixed up with Drag Me to Hell - hoping for some Sam Raimi but getting M night Shyamalan instead. Typical: dutch angles abused willynilly. The brunette in here, a Serbian-Australian goddess, needs to be in more movies. Logan Marshall-Green looks identical to Tom Hardy to me. Not sure how they found Discount Shirley McClain,  but she was pretty annoying as a character: well done!

[Madrun Badrun]

baywatch was fun

[Valkyrie]

The Discovery was garbage with a lazy/shitty ending, dunno how it made its way to 6+ on IMDb.

[Stoney Mason]

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 tonight.

I absolutely adored the original. Super Fun. Very refreshing.


This one was less fun. less refreshing...

Maybe its because all the characters in the prior movie were new to me. But this one just felt like a less interesting adventure with characters I now know already so I'm sitting there waiting for the expected punchlines.

That's not a bad thing. And its a not a bad movie at all. It's a good movie. But the first for me was great by comparison. Maybe a case of diminishing returns on a concept.

Movie also felt a lot slower. I didn't even think of time when I watched the first movie. I was about halfway through this one and was thinking I still have half a movie to go and realized that.

[Bebpo]

Nocturnal Animals - Well, that was interesting and I like it because it was. Also very beautifully shot and Michael Shannon is excellent. More ambitious and artsy than A Single Man, but not as refined and satisfying. Will definitely be interested in this guy's next movie, just hope it doesn't take another 7 years. Also, Amy Adams was good, but Gyllenhaal just kinda coastingly good which is a step down from his really stellar performances. Same thing with LIFE. Dude's been coasting a lot lately.

[Tasty]

Speaking of Gyllenhaal, I just watched Okja and it was pretty good. Much more conventionally shot and paced than Snowpiercer, so I liked it more overall. Felt much less weird all around, despite it being centered around a giant CG pig.

4 / 5

[Bebpo]

Logan Lucky - First of all, I'm a huge Soderbergh stan and think everything he's done for the last 5-10 years has been A-game non-stop. From that perspective, this was a fun popcorn flick, but was definitely B-game Soderbergh and felt like him messing around with his friends. It's cute and has funny bits, but lacks in style and the script has some problems. It's also basically just Ocean's Eleven again. Adam Driver is great and Daniel Craig letting go of the SO SERIOUS DANIEL CRAIG persona he's had since forever and being a silly goofball is amazing and worth watching for that alone. It's a fun matinee but hopefully just a warm up for Soderbergh's return from film after his 2 year "retirement" where he did The Knick and Behind the Candelabra.

Also the movie has THE MOST TOPICALLY STRANGE 3-4 MIN GAME OF THRONES BOOK RANT OUT OF NOWHERE that will not make any sense in 20 years to anyone watching.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

There's one part where there's a prison riot and a showdown between the rioters and the prison warden. The rioters give their list of demands and the warden is all "We'll get A Dance of Dragons for the library, but we can't put Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring in the library because they're not out yet" to which the inmate leader goes "But GRRM was supposed to have Winds delivered to his editor 2 years ago!!" and the Warden is like "I'm reading the wikipedia entry and apparently he hasn't been able to write because of his appearances,  etc..." and the inmate goes "That makes no sense!!" and the warden is like "yeah, I know!", and then the inmate guy goes "That can't be right! What about those 2 guys who transferred here and knew about the dragons and stuff!?!?" and the Warden goes "They must have seen the TV show", "The TV Show has passed the books" (to which all the inmates throw their hands up) "...The TV show has derailed and is not following the book material anymore!" and then all the inmates get angry and riot.

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That was hilarious and obviously written by someone whose a GoT book fan, but it was super weird and out of place.

[Bebpo]

Also, apparently reading that the screenwriter is a mysterious pseudonym for himself, his wife or someone from the UK
And the movie has soooo many cameos. Was great seeing Macon Blair there.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Also, apparently reading that the screenwriter is a mysterious pseudonym for himself, his wife or someone from the UK
And the movie has soooo many cameos. Was great seeing Macon Blair there.

aw shit! That was him! I was trying to place that guy. Thanks.

And yeah, Beps is right. Logan Lucky is a good time. Not a grand slam, but a fun, clever movie and ain't that enough?

[chronovore]

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have The Trip to Spain coming out, so The Trip and The Trip to Italy were both 499¢ on iTunes. I'd been meaning to watch them for ages, so I picked them up. The Trip is a charming, understated movie where both comedians make fun of their publicly perceived personas while improvising lines as they go around England and eat in exclusive restaurants and stay in charming inns. Brydon comes off as likable but maybe needy. Coogan intentionally makes himself out to be a womanizing, hypocritical cur, and it's fucking hilarious.

[Bebpo]

Also, apparently reading that the screenwriter is a mysterious pseudonym for himself, his wife or someone from the UK
And the movie has soooo many cameos. Was great seeing Macon Blair there.

aw shit! That was him! I was trying to place that guy. Thanks.

And yeah, Beps is right. Logan Lucky is a good time. Not a grand slam, but a fun, clever movie and ain't that enough?

Yeah, it's totally worth a matinee in the theater. After sleeping on it, it feels like an Ocean's Eleven x Coen Brothers' mashup in a good way.

My problems with the script are a couple of things:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The script feels uneven, inconsistent and unedited. Like you have hilarious moments like Craig's character explaining chemistry on a wall with chalk but then there are a lot of lulls in the middle where nothing funny is really going on.

And even for a comedy, the believability of the movie is such a stretch. You have a movie like Ocean's Eleven or Fast & Furious and these are the characters skills and with a lot of lucky they come up with a plan and pull it off for a heist. In Logan Lucky the plan is so insanely complex and perfect you basically have Tatum's character being smarter than FBI agents and a super mastermind genius. Yet there's never anything that makes it seem like his character can plan an elaborate prison breakout and bank heist. It just feels like as an audience we have to accept that he came up with this perfect plan and is a super-genius, which created a disconnect imo.

I think it was a well directed movie with good writing and funny bits, but script needed a few more months or another set of eyes to flesh it out and edit it down,

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[Tasty]

- Joker origin movie is now in development, but not the version from Suicide Squad
- The Batman by Matt Reeves also isn't in the DCEU now apparently

What the fuck is WB/DC doing?

[Tasty]

The Batman movie being directed by Matt Reeves and not having any connection to the DCEU is probably a good thing.

Well yes, of course.

[toku]

nah

[benjipwns]

- Joker origin movie is now in development, but not the version from Suicide Squad
- The Batman by Matt Reeves also isn't in the DCEU now apparently

What the fuck is WB/DC doing?

no wait, it gets better

it's a Joker and Harley Quinn love story movie from the people behind Crazy, Stupid, Love*

AND the Joker is in Suicide Squad 2 too (obv Harley is)

oh and they're still Leto and Robbie, no recasting

Harley Quinn is going to be in more of these movies than Batfleck and Superman combined by 2020

spoiler (click to show/hide)

*admittedly one of them also is responsible for creating Bad Santa apparently and they both did Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the latter of which probably got them attached to Robbie

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[benjipwns]

they also walked back The Batman thing, it's going to be under a new Warner label, not necessarily a new DC label but still possibly, which is also better and more hilarious

i still say you just can say it's backstory for Batfleck who you pull out solely for the Justice League films

[G The Resurrected]

Saw IT 2017 today and it was so good. I don't usually watch horror films in theaters, but this is really good. It's 2 parts Stranger things with a good kid cast and authentic enough setting, and one part It Follows with story building and ramping up the scares steadily. It has a great chance of being the best horror film of 2017.

[chronovore]

Saw IT 2017 today and it was so good. I don't usually watch horror films, but this is really good. It's 2 parts Stranger things with a good kid cast and authentic enough setting, and one part It Follows with story building and ramping up the scares steadily. It has a great chance of being the best horror film of 2017.

I'm excited to hear that it's not crap!

[Bebpo]

Yeah, really glad to hear it's not a letdown. Once Cary Fukunaga left the project I didn't have a lot of faith even if the trailers have been solid. Will see it first weekend! Glad it's been long enough that I don't remember the book much besides the monster itself.

Also just finished watching Jim Jarmusch's Paterson starring Adam Driver. That was a good movie. Very nice simple film about a bus driver and his daily life and the people around him. It's slower paced and measured as is typical from Jarmusch. The side characters are so well done, which is also typical from Jarmusch. The world that Paterson lives in and the people in it feel so real and brought to life. It's very engrossing in that respect. Cinematography is nice as always as well. There's nothing that jumps out as incredibly amazing or anything, it's just a good solid drama about a guy. Would recommend.

And it also has AN AWESOME AWESOME CAMEO:

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Since Paterson is a bus driver, when driving his bus you get two people having a conversation each ride. One time there's these two early teens kids that you immediately recognize if you're a Wes Anderson fan but it takes a second to place them and then you're like holy shit it's the couple from MOONRISE KINGDOM omgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

Moonrise Kingdom is my favorite Anderson film and one of my top10 favorite films of all time. I actually just listened to the soundtrack and rewatched the trailer last week because I recommended it to a gal I was seeing. That probably helped me recognize the pair here since I'd just seen them last week.

But yeah, between one of my favorite movie pairs having a cameo in this and Song of Ice & Fire (which I love) getting a cameo in Logan Lucky it's been a really good film cameos week for me!

Also after I finish a movie I like to read a couple of reviews to see what critics are taking from the movie. This guy,
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/jim-jarmuschs-paterson-and-the-myth-of-the-solitary-artist
Reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally liked it. I mean I like it too! But maybe not that much , was still an interesting read and learned a few things. I have to admit my historical poetry knowledge of authors in the genre is fairly limited.

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[benjipwns]

Speaking of dutch angles

Batman: The Movie (1966): Still a blast. An absurd, but not absurdist, romp with a surprisingly dark plot (terrorist group VAPORIZES the UN's security council, holds each nation hostage for $1B each)

STEALING ONE OF MY BITS HUH

But yeah, it's seriously fucked up if you think about it for any length of time. And even more aggravating that people think the Nolan films are "dark" content in comparison to parts of 1966, Returns and Forever if you peel off the visual layer. One part you left out, when the Penguin invades the Batcave. The casual "ATOMIC PILE" IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATCAVE that the Penguin uses the cooling water from to re-hydrate his henchmen.

And then Batman deliberately mixes up the powders of the UN Security Council members, after warning Robin about the dangers of messing with human nature, and they just bail out the window having arguably done a worse crime than the villains of the film threatened!

The first two seasons of Batman aren't as crazy really though the show was never supposed to be serious they did adapt plots from the comic during the first season, it's the "revamped" budget cut third season with Batgirl when the show gets a lot of its later reputation from (kinda like Star Trek) where it just degrades into all the tropes and West goes full camp and the sets are just walls painted different colors.

[Freyj]

I've been meaning to checkout Paterson for a while now.

Also really glad to hear IT is good. The trailers looked great but I wasn't a big fan of the Pennywise design. Just feels like it's missing the point a little, but I get why they went for the angle they did. Clowns are probably more commonly associated with fear now than anything else in no small part due to Curry's performance as Pennywise.

[Tasty]

I'll say it again: what the fuck is WB/DC doing?

[Tasty]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-current-state-of-dc-superhero-movies-1798376485

[ToxicAdam]

It's a real shame that so many other (lesser) films will come out before a Flash movie is made. That's the one DC character I think would do well. A movie I'd actually watch.

[Momo]

I havent been to the cinema in 3 weeks, nothing good on  :'(

[TVC15]

Logan Lucky - If at the beginning of the year you told me there would be two movies with "Logan" in the title this year, one a Soderbergh comeback flick and one a Fox franchise mutie flick, I would've laughed if you told me X-Men movie would be better.

Logan Lucky was merely pretty okay. I'm pretty disappointed that Soderbergh picked this for his return to theaters. Very little of the humor landed, the heist wasn't particularly cool or slick or edited in an interesting way, it meandered, the main character needed a bit more characterization, the end didn't wrap things up quickly enough. The cast did a pretty fine job, to their credit. Aside from Seth MacFarlane. In the end, I had a good time, but I found myself leaving the theater saying "that was it?"

[G The Resurrected]

Seth made mention that his character was supposed to be in a number of films surrounding this group of folks. I take it that meant they were planning on making more movies and it certainly felt like that given the late introduction of one of the characters. I liked it, but also left coming out of Lucky Logan the same.

So I rewatch IT 1990 yesterday with the missus and she was not getting it and didn't like the made for TV style of the miniseries. I personally would love a return to miniseries style made for tv movies. In retrospect IT 2017 is miles ahead of the 1990 movie and god damn does Skar do a better Pennywise. I can't wait to take the missus to see the movie in a few weeks so she can get blown away. I'm gonna say it, that movie has stuck with me in a way I didn't think it would. I thought it was the best horror film of 2017 thus far, but I think that is not giving it enough credit.

2017 Spoiler

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I'm really wanting a sequel today, and love the design of Pennywise paying homage to the real horror that lies behind the deadlights. LOSERS forever!

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[benjipwns]

The Flash thing is nuts, especially making it fucking Flashpoint of all things, but apparently the Arrowverse/TV people have some kind of outsized say in determining what can be fair game for the films and this helps get around the whole two actors playing The Flash thing. It's like an inverse Marvel situation where all the ABC shows are just extended marketing. But I really don't think people care or are going to be phased by there being a Flash in the movies and a Flash on low rated TV series who are different actors. (And again, my thing about Batman.) At the same time, the company is putting Leto and Robbie into how many movies set in how many different time periods.

And look, let's just never talk about Justice League Dark again. Wipe it off the wikipedia page so these roundups like this don't mention it. del Toro wasn't going to get it done and never seemed like he thought it was a legitimate project for Warners, the book itself bombed and was a bad idea in so many ways, the TV series of the main character bombed.

If DC really wants to setup two studio lines, how about doing a Vertigo one where you don't have to worry about hitting PG-13 and using it as a farm system for people who can bump up to fix your main franchises. You've already sold the rights to everything under the sun, maybe put some of those into pre-production. How about we try Swamp Thing again? Wes Craven seemed to do pretty well when he made one for a total of $125 and all he could eat shrimp.

That said, Matt Ryan always gets first dibs on Constantine from here on out.

[Bebpo]

Death Note was SO GOOD. Best adaptation in the west of any manga/anime I've ever seen. I'm a little biased because I think Death Note sucks, it was a half good engaging but stupid and cheesy manga that had the worst mid-series ending it possibly could've and then the second half was a piece of shit. This adaptation felt super authentic, hit all the main story notes, was stupid and cheesy like the manga but engaging like it as well and it thankfully didn't do the dumb shit manga-mid-ending and had a much better ending (I hear the Japanese live-action films also changed this and had a much better ending which makes sense because the manga ending to this arc was THE.WORST so why would any adaptation follow it).

Yeah the movie could've been longer and feels like it rushes through the first act, yeah Light could've been shittier but that would've needed more time for a character development arc, but it's fun, it's cheesy, and L and Ryuk are great and even Light and Mia are ok by the ending.

It's fun trashy adaptation that perfectly & authentically captures a trashy manga. A+ job Adam Wingard!

*edit* now I kinda want to see his Blair Witch even though it's supposed to be bad. I've generally thought all his stuff has been pretty fun.

[chronovore]

Saw IT 2017 today and it was so good. I don't usually watch horror films in theaters, but this is really good. It's 2 parts Stranger things with a good kid cast and authentic enough setting, and one part It Follows with story building and ramping up the scares steadily. It has a great chance of being the best horror film of 2017.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/alamo-drafthouse-clown-only-screenings-it-stephen-king-1202538446/

[toku]

Death Note was SO GOOD. Best adaptation in the west of any manga/anime I've ever seen. I'm a little biased because I think Death Note sucks, it was a half good engaging but stupid and cheesy manga that had the worst mid-series ending it possibly could've and then the second half was a piece of shit. This adaptation felt super authentic, hit all the main story notes, was stupid and cheesy like the manga but engaging like it as well and it thankfully didn't do the dumb shit manga-mid-ending and had a much better ending (I hear the Japanese live-action films also changed this and had a much better ending which makes sense because the manga ending to this arc was THE.WORST so why would any adaptation follow it).

Yeah the movie could've been longer and feels like it rushes through the first act, yeah Light could've been shittier but that would've needed more time for a character development arc, but it's fun, it's cheesy, and L and Ryuk are great and even Light and Mia are ok by the ending.

It's fun trashy adaptation that perfectly & authentically captures a trashy manga. A+ job Adam Wingard!

*edit* now I kinda want to see his Blair Witch even though it's supposed to be bad. I've generally thought all his stuff has been pretty fun.

pretty much how i feel (about the anime/manga too)

sucks because all the weeb nerds are giving Wingard a hard time online. He's absolutely one of the better genre guys we having working now 

[nudemacusers]

Death note was terrible to me, couldn't finish it. 

[Bebpo]

The gist I'm getting from Death Note impressions seems to come down to 3 approaches:

1. You've never seen/read the original - Movie is undeveloped and doesn't make a lot of sense and kinda sucks or is boring
2. You really like the original source material - Movie deviates too much and trolls the source and is a let down for fans
3. You think the original source material is schlocky and the MC is an unlikeable dipshit - Movie is a fun condensed B-movie adaptation/parody of that

[G The Resurrected]

Saw IT 2017 today and it was so good. I don't usually watch horror films in theaters, but this is really good. It's 2 parts Stranger things with a good kid cast and authentic enough setting, and one part It Follows with story building and ramping up the scares steadily. It has a great chance of being the best horror film of 2017.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/alamo-drafthouse-clown-only-screenings-it-stephen-king-1202538446/

The origins of this are hilarious. It was a suggestion from the MRA backlash of the all female screening of Wonder Woman. Let's see if the follow through with an all male screening of Thor.

Edit: Found it

[Mupepe]

Movie was fine for made for tv quality imo. I just most manga or anime adaptations on that scale.

I also watched that McDonalds movie and i thought that was surprisingly engaging and good.

[TVC15]

Death Note was SO GOOD. Best adaptation in the west of any manga/anime I've ever seen. I'm a little biased because I think Death Note sucks, it was a half good engaging but stupid and cheesy manga that had the worst mid-series ending it possibly could've and then the second half was a piece of shit. This adaptation felt super authentic, hit all the main story notes, was stupid and cheesy like the manga but engaging like it as well and it thankfully didn't do the dumb shit manga-mid-ending and had a much better ending (I hear the Japanese live-action films also changed this and had a much better ending which makes sense because the manga ending to this arc was THE.WORST so why would any adaptation follow it).

Yeah the movie could've been longer and feels like it rushes through the first act, yeah Light could've been shittier but that would've needed more time for a character development arc, but it's fun, it's cheesy, and L and Ryuk are great and even Light and Mia are ok by the ending.

It's fun trashy adaptation that perfectly & authentically captures a trashy manga. A+ job Adam Wingard!

*edit* now I kinda want to see his Blair Witch even though it's supposed to be bad. I've generally thought all his stuff has been pretty fun.

pretty much how i feel (about the anime/manga too)

sucks because all the weeb nerds are giving Wingard a hard time online. He's absolutely one of the better genre guys we having working now 

His Blair Witch isn't bad, it just feels really unnecessary.

[Tasty]

Movie was fine for made for tv quality imo. I just most manga or anime adaptations on that scale.

I also watched that McDonalds movie and i thought that was surprisingly engaging and good.

The Founder? Yeah that shit was ace, mostly due to Michael Keaton though.

[Tasty]

Blair Witch was my biggest letdown in years, but I'm one of the weirdos who fucking loved the original a whole lot. Even as its own thing it was a super weak entry in Wingard's filmography.

Trailers, man.

[team filler]

  Halfway through Death Note I found myself hoping Light would write my name in the book. I fully deserve to be dead for sitting though the entire shit show.

[Stoney Mason]

Watched Logan.

Yep it was good. Yep it was grounded. Yep it was less annoying alot of other comic book movies. Yep it was slow and paced very well unlike nearly all of the other comic book movies.

It was a good enjoyable movie that happened to be based in a comic book universe instead of what feels like a comic book property that is supposed to be a good movie.

[Mupepe]

Blair Witch was my biggest letdown in years, but I'm one of the weirdos who fucking loved the original a whole lot. Even as its own thing it was a super weak entry in Wingard's filmography.

Trailers, man.

I liked Blair Witch a lot more in theaters.  At home I was more disappointed when I rewatched.  I didn't think it was bad though and I also love the original.  I feel like it mostly failed on capturing the restraint of the original though.  But if you look at his filmography restraint isn't something he seems to excel at anyways. 

[fistfulofmetal]

Blair Witch was my biggest letdown in years, but I'm one of the weirdos who fucking loved the original a whole lot. Even as its own thing it was a super weak entry in Wingard's filmography.

Trailers, man.

Liking The Blair Witch Project doesn't make you a weirdo. It's one of the best horror flix there is. The sequel thing is garbage in every respect.

[Bebpo]

Ended up seeing Wind River with a friend. It was a good police procedural with a Native American Wyoming wilderness spin to it, but it was very plain, almost like reading a dry book. As Taylor Sheridan's directorial debut, it definitely showed that his screenplays are better handled with directors who can add some cinematic style and flavor to it like Hell or High Water/Sicario. Also, Jeremy Renner felt miscast. His character felt like a Jeff Bridges 60 year old gristled & sad cowboy hunter and Renner just couldn't deliver it. I mean he seems like a nice enough actor with some chops, but the dude has shown time and time again to have the charisma of wood. He works better as a support straight man character to play off of (Like in Mission Impossible or Avengers), but his stoic guy act can't lead films. It's still good, but if Sheridan had a better lead it might've been more compelling as a film.

At least the Nick Cave & Warren Ellis collab soundtrack was kinda interesting.

[TVC15]

Blair Witch was my biggest letdown in years, but I'm one of the weirdos who fucking loved the original a whole lot. Even as its own thing it was a super weak entry in Wingard's filmography.

Trailers, man.

Bitch, I love Book of Shadows, too.

I think I'd rank the 3:
1) BWP
2) BoS
3) Blair Witch

Blair Witch wasn't that bad. It was just a lukewarm modernization of the original. I was really disappointed, too, but in hindsight that had more to do with my expectations as a franchise fan and a fan of the director, since he was on something of a hot streak at the time.

...now, after BW and Death Note, he needs a comeback hit.

[Bebpo]

...now, after BW and Death Note, he needs a comeback hit.

Good thing his next movie is a remake of I Saw The Devil, a completely serious dark film that doesn't sound like his style at all! (also if you count BW as kinda a remake that's 3 remakes in a row wtf).
But then afterwards he's lined up to direct....Godzilla v King Kong which I actually could see work with his style as a fun violent schlocky romp with an 80s monster movie feel. But yeah, I don't see how he pulls off I Saw The Devil.

[TVC15]

Still need to see I Saw the Devil. I know I'll like it, but I always have to motivate myself to watch Korean movies because they tend to be so f'n long.

[Bebpo]

Still need to see I Saw the Devil. I know I'll like it, but I always have to motivate myself to watch Korean movies because they tend to be so f'n long.

I actually haven't seen it either. It just sounds a little too dark/bleak for me. But I know enough of it from friends, that Wingard doing a remake does not seem like a great idea.

[Mupepe]

I usually hate Korean movies but I Saw the Devil is damn good.

[nudemacusers]

Still need to see I Saw the Devil. I know I'll like it, but I always have to motivate myself to watch Korean movies because they tend to be so f'n long.

I actually haven't seen it either. It just sounds a little too dark/bleak for me. But I know enough of it from friends, that Wingard doing a remake does not seem like a great idea.

It's not really as nihilistic as it seems..  yeah it's dark, but it errs toward a psychological thriller if that makes sense. It's an interesting character study.

[toku]

...now, after BW and Death Note, he needs a comeback hit.

Good thing his next movie is a remake of I Saw The Devil, a completely serious dark film that doesn't sound like his style at all! (also if you count BW as kinda a remake that's 3 remakes in a row wtf).
But then afterwards he's lined up to direct....Godzilla v King Kong which I actually could see work with his style as a fun violent schlocky romp with an 80s monster movie feel. But yeah, I don't see how he pulls off I Saw The Devil.

i doubt the i saw the devil remake happens

[chronovore]

Saw IT 2017 today and it was so good. I don't usually watch horror films in theaters, but this is really good. It's 2 parts Stranger things with a good kid cast and authentic enough setting, and one part It Follows with story building and ramping up the scares steadily. It has a great chance of being the best horror film of 2017.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/alamo-drafthouse-clown-only-screenings-it-stephen-king-1202538446/

The origins of this are hilarious. It was a suggestion from the MRA backlash of the all female screening of Wonder Woman. Let's see if the follow through with an all male screening of Thor.

Edit: Found it

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Invalid. RAGNAROK special viewing should be reserved for demigods of any pantheon, and victims of radiation accidents.

[Valkyrie]

I havent been to the cinema in 3 weeks, nothing good on  :'(

Same. Love going to the movies, but there really hasn't been much interesting stuff for months.

[Huff]

I've been to about 3 movies in the theaters in the past 10 years. Don't really see the point

[Shuri]

Death Note wasn't too bad, I read the first 3 manga books last year. I think a series would had been a better choice, the pace was a bit quick. The gore effects were nice, but I was expecting more on screen kills. Ryuuk wasnt there enough.

It's worth watching.

[Madrun Badrun]

In this corner of the world - really good movie. 

[Rahxephon91]

Wolf Warriors 2 was some of the best fun I've had in the movies in a long time.

It was also surreal watching such a Chinese Nationalistic movie in a swanky US theater in Chicago.