Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Great Rumbler]

oh no baby what is you doin

[Nintex]

Plowing through the Nolan 4K box and only Batman Begins, Inception and The Prestige are left.

The OLED black levels in The Dark Knight 

The universe shots in Interstellar 

The HDR plane fights in Dunkirk 

Anne Hathaway wearing leather in 4K 


So now that I've dipped my toes in 4K HDR goodness I'm looking for more.
Any movies that look particularly great in 4K? Any I should avoid?

[Tasty]

https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/07/20/avengers-4-character-presumed-dead-is-actually-alive-and-well/

[Bebpo]

Unfriended: Dark Web was definitely better than the original and more what I wanted from that one. It’s kinda ridiculous and I was surprised how long the movie takes until it starts killing people, but that’s for the better & worse. It actually gives a nice long suspense thriller build up that’s satisfying, downside is you get rushed kills that are whatever. Overall was satisfied as a popcorn matinee. It’s also pretty dark!

[Madrun Badrun]

This is some stupid shit

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-gunn-exits-guardians-galaxy-vol-3-1128786

[Tasty]

This is some stupid shit

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-gunn-exits-guardians-galaxy-vol-3-1128786

We're discussing it in Stoney's thread.

[Tasty]

[Great Rumbler]

 

[Bebpo]

Did a double feature of Unfriended Dark Web & Sorry to Bother You. The latter was pretty cool. Very funny and felt like Clockwork Orange x Office Space to me. Liked the music and lotta good people in it. Neat artsy story.

[Momo]

 

[Bebpo]

So like hours later I'm still thinking about Unfriended Dark Web. Horror movies don't normally stick with me, even good ones like Hereditary, but the more I think about it the more I think the script for Dark Web was pretty good. Like yes, it's from the point of view of SUPER HACKERS ARE EVERYWHERE which is a ridiculously exaggerated take on anonymous/.tor/redditt, but once you accept that it's a pretty fucked up solid suspense thriller that's really, really dark/bleak the more you think about it. The movie doesn't really show much violence/gore at all, everything is shown and then cuts off-screen, but to me that makes it more disturbing if you've got a fucked up imagination!

I'd definitely say the movie is recommendable as a horror film. It's not great/amazing but the script and directing is tight enough to make it worth a watch for horror genre fans.

Minor spoilers for Unfriended 2:

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Also this film is just bleak af. Both Unfriended movies are essentially torture porn films which I'll define as mean-spirited films with no hope at all for the characters. In most horror films, the films try to give the main characters at least a fighting chance, even if it ultimately fails and they all die. But they have some hope and some way to fight back, which will either work or not. Truth or Dare for as shitty as it is, follows this as the main characters investigate the background of the evil TRUTH OR DARE DEMON and try to find a way to seal it. But in both Unfriended movies, it's like "nope" the main characters are just totally outmatched so there is no hope and all you do is watch them die, which to me is torture porn.

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Medium spoilers for Unfriended 2:

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Unfriended 2 is even more mean-spirited/fucked up than the first one because at least in the first one it's a ghost getting revenge against jerks who filmed an embarrassing video of her and spread it (still not really death-worthy for everyone, but at least it's something against them). In Unfriended 2 it's literally just a group of random people who just through bad luck all get to die horribly. Pretty fucked up!

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Major spoilers for Unfriended 2:

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Especially fucked up because all these random people and all the kidnapped girls die horribly for the fun lolz games of essentially a reddit forum. Pretty fucked up movie!

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[BlueTsunami]

Got high and fired this up



One of the funniest experiences ive had of watching a flick ironically. Its painfully 80s. Theres a couple of scenes where the music cues up and it does that thing where its almost literally describes whats happening on screen or the characters current motivations. The friend is that 80s friend archtype turned up to 11. Also the gay panic from the parents is super cringy.

[toku]

[Momo]

Just watched The Cave (2005), the monster design is pretty interesting, I haven't watched this before and I was surprised by how much one of my other favorites, Pandorum, resembled this movie, has a lot that reminded me of Alien as well. The ending is heavily foreshadowed throughout the movie, however it leaves me with questions regarding intent/danger, can't talk too much about this without spoilers.


For the acting parts, Eddie Cibrian is pretty decent in his role as hot shot, daredevil diver, he has the look and just enough charisma, makes me wonder why he never became a bigger star outside soaps and some dumb tv show currently airing. No clue what Lena Headey's accent is supposed to be, she's unusually subdued in this movie, I guess I expect more from her. The rest of the supporting cast are also great, Daniel Dae Kim does a good job and Morris Chestnut does especially good for me. The other lead Cole Hauser does great throughout, wish he was in more stuff.

[Momo]

journey to the center of the earth 2008 - Not a super good film but it reminds me that we missed peak Brendan Frasier due to hair-loss and wight gain

[Momo]

I'm typing in the dark, i cant give a shit

[Bebpo]

As someone who fucking hated the last American take on Godzilla, this looks hype AF (also that Clair de Lune piano theme everywhere)
Really hope this turns out good. Michael Dougherty's directing and his Trick R' Treat is great, but his Krampus was super meh.

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MOTHRA, RODAN, KING FUCKING GHIDORA, LET'S DO THIS

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I also like how they had to get that Game of Thrones line in there 
I feel pretty good about this being in Dougherty's hands.

[Momo]

complete opposite for me, too much dumb human drama, the second I saw eleven featured heavily in promo materials I felt it coming.

[Bebpo]

complete opposite for me, too much dumb human drama, the second I saw eleven featured heavily in promo materials I felt it coming.

 

I mean you have to have some sort of a story. 90 mins of just monsters fighting each other would get dull after 20 mins. Trailer seems to have plenty.

You're saying this coming from Edwards Godzilla. Pretty sure there's more actual shots of monsters doing shit in that trailer than the entire Edward's film. Now that was a movie that was too much dumb human drama (and off-screen monster battles). This looks much much better and pretty sure shit will go down onscreen.

[Rahxephon91]

I mean pretty much every Godzilla movies has “too much human drama”. Shin Godzilla was almost more .a political thriller.

Trailer looked really good, but so did the last one’s trailers.

[Bebpo]

I mean pretty much every Godzilla movies has “too much human drama”. Shin Godzilla was almost more .a political thriller.

Yeah. I love Shin-Godzilla and it's like The West Wing/VEEP co-starring Godzilla.

Trailer looked really good, but so did the last one’s trailers.

Yeah, Edward's movie looks nice af visually, so the trailer looked awesome. But I've got more faith in Dougherty.

[Madrun Badrun]

I mean you have to have some sort of a story. 90 mins of just monsters fighting each other would get dull after 20 mins.

I'd be fine with it

[Bebpo]

Also another plus is that main girl from Stranger Things >>>>>> buffed up guy from Kick-Ass as generic CoD military man in terms of having a human lead.

[Momo]

[Momo]

fuck movies are all that's worth watching

[Mandark]

I get so bummed out when I find a porn star I like and all they do is A2M or I suddenly see "new" videos where they have new tits and tons of tats and know they've been on a drug binge they aren't going to pull out of.

This post works equally well as "oops wrong thread" or as a metaphor for the upcoming slate of big action movies.

[shosta]

complete opposite for me, too much dumb human drama, the second I saw eleven featured heavily in promo materials I felt it coming.

I really hate any take on Godzilla that reveres him or makes him out to be humanity's protector. When 1985 rebooted the Godzilla series, it brought him back to the status of senseless rage filled monster that threatened to extinguish all of humanity. The underlying tension is the desperation to survive. You say there's "too much human drama" and I agree but only because there's not the right kind of it. People are supposed to hate Godzilla. They're supposed to cry and mourn and curse the world. And then they're supposed to curse themselves for creating him. The best formula for a Godzilla movie is "we have two extinction level threats, so we're going to make them fight each other, and then we're going to take out Godzilla".

[TVC15]

I was hoping for better from Wan, but this looks like the same ol’ trash. And Momoa still sucks at line readings. The only good thing about this movie is that I can imagine him having sex with Lise Bonet during the 2+ hours of sucky bits.

[Rahxephon91]

The best formula for a Godzilla movie is to have him battling 1 or more other giant monsters with lots of lasers and lightning and buildings made of paper mache exploding

That didn’t work for Final Wars....

[Rahxephon91]

It didn’t have that? That movie had everything.

[toku]

Aquaman looks great! Really glad James Wan is continuing where Snyder left off. If only DC wasn't run by a bunch of cowards #snydercut

[Bebpo]

It didn’t have that? That movie had everything.

Except quality.

[benjipwns]

knew that was the same exact music:

[Tasty]

This... this is enough for now.

[Stoney Mason]

Watched Miles Ahead which is the 2015 Miles Davis biopic.


It was mostly a mediocre movie. Cheadle turns in a good performance as Davis but the plot isn't up to it. It basically makes up the main plot line of the movie which never happened to create drama while bouncing between that and the troubled personal life of Miles Davis. It's pretty obvious the main plotline is made up to kind of gin up excitement.

The problem is Miles had a dramatic enough regular life so it wasn't necessary to create the made up plot. Just focus on his life and the up and downs and you have a compelling movie right there. I don't feel like the movie also makes you understand why Miles was such an important music figure. It seems to take it for granted that everybody knows why Miles is important but in a movie, I'm not sure its good to make those assumptions. You have to kind of show it and tell it via the story.

It's not horrible and I didn't hate watching it or anything. At the bare minimum its an excuse to listen to a lot of Miles as background music during a movie. But its also not the kind of movie that is for anybody but hardcore Miles fan because it doesn't do enough to educate the casual fan about Jazz and his place in jazz. And if it doesn't drill deep enough into the life he had to work as strictly a biopic.

Anyway this just gives me an excuse to post Kind of Blue.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/zahmoonduh/status/1020772035889369088

[Tasty]

https://io9.gizmodo.com/batman-hush-is-finally-getting-a-dc-animated-movie-ada-1827774909

[BisMarckie]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1020344331499012096

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1020344331499012096

I'm more convinced now to watch Mama Mia 2 than I would have been after any other possible review.

[BlueTsunami]

Having been in a relationship that imploded spectacularly, this movie was extremely hard to watch. All I could think about is how can one walk back years of bitterness and dissatisfaction, and the reality is you usually can't. The contrast between the beginning and end was simply heartbreaking.

[bork]

Got high and fired this up



One of the funniest experiences ive had of watching a flick ironically. Its painfully 80s. Theres a couple of scenes where the music cues up and it does that thing where its almost literally describes whats happening on screen or the characters current motivations. The friend is that 80s friend archtype turned up to 11. Also the gay panic from the parents is super cringy.

Is this the movie where the vampire-teen puts on sunglasses and it starts playing "the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades?"   

[BlueTsunami]

Got high and fired this up



One of the funniest experiences ive had of watching a flick ironically. Its painfully 80s. Theres a couple of scenes where the music cues up and it does that thing where its almost literally describes whats happening on screen or the characters current motivations. The friend is that 80s friend archtype turned up to 11. Also the gay panic from the parents is super cringy.

Is this the movie where the vampire-teen puts on sunglasses and it starts playing "the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades?"   

Yes! Lmao

When the song fired up I forgot I'm not watching a parody of an 80s film

[Tasty]

https://uproxx.com/hitfix/kevin-smith-jay-silent-bob-reboot-the-flash/



I mean it makes sense, he's directed a ton of episodes for the show I guess.

[Optimus]

Goddammit Momo, goddammit. I watched The Cave, even by b-movie standards it was fucking awful. I couldn't understand where these fuckers were going most of the time, the direction was fucking atrocious.


If you want a good claustrophobic cave movie btw watch The Descent, maybe one of my favorite horror movies. Important note: Do NOT watch The Descent 2, it will retroactively ruin the first movie for you, absolutely terrible movie.

[Tasty]

I heard good things for The Descent but I was legit blown away by it.

The Decent 2 is Highlander II-esque trash.

[Optimus]

Also, if you liked The Descent, there's a slight chance you might like As Above, So Below. Not an amazing movie by any means, but its fun in a Ghost Ship kind of way.

I've also watched As Above, So Below and I really liked it but I'm biased because I really like this kind of movies. Still a pretty good movie imo.

The Descent 2 ruined

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the monsters

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for me, it's amazing how good direction can scare you shitless about something and then watch it in a different film and feel completely apathetic towards it because the director is a hack. The difference was night and day.

[Tasty]

Also, if you liked The Descent, there's a slight chance you might like As Above, So Below. Not an amazing movie by any means, but its fun in a Ghost Ship kind of way.

That movie looked like trash from the trailers but it ended up being one of my favorite movies from the October Horror Marathon Thing 2016. I was on the fence about renting vs. buying it but after seeing it I'm really glad I bought it.

[Tasty]

Also, if you liked The Descent, there's a slight chance you might like As Above, So Below. Not an amazing movie by any means, but its fun in a Ghost Ship kind of way.

I've also watched As Above, So Below and I really liked it but I'm biased because I really like this kind of movies. Still a pretty good movie imo.

The Descent 2 ruined

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the monsters

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for me, it's amazing how good direction can scare you shitless about something and then watch it in a different film and feel completely apathetic towards it because the director is a hack. The difference was night and day.

They went from Halloween 1 quality to Halloween 5 in just one sequel. That's impressive.

[Svejk]

[Coax]

Any impressions of Hotel Artemis? I remember liking the look of the trailer and was considering picking it up until I noticed all the so-so reviews criticizing the pacing and focus for the most part.

[toku]

a lot of zack snyder energy here, can't wait!

[Great Rumbler]

I'm cautiously optimistic that it will at least be entertaining.

[Tasty]

zack snyder

[Dickie Dee]

[Tasty]

Edit- Ehhh poor taste. Wouldn't want to get fired from a Disney movie in 10 years.

[naff]

What are your Mission Impossible ratings? Looking forward to seeing Fallout next week.

Mine - 1 > 3 > 5, 4 >>> 2

Something to like in all of 'em. 2 was a really tough rewatch though. Some hilarious scenes. Completely over the top takedowns, a few cool set pieces, motorcycle jousting. Shit movie though. I haven't seen a lot of Woo. Outside of Hard Boiled does he have any must watches?

[chronovore]

I heard good things for The Descent but I was legit blown away by it.

The Decent 2 is Highlander II-esque trash.

BEST COMPARISON EVER.

[BlueTsunami]

Jonah Hill written and directed on 16mm film

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Trailer for MOTY 2018 is out!!!

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