Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[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!!!

[Great Rumbler]

[TVC15]

Trailer for MOTY 2018 is out!!!

Amazing.

Jonah Hill written and directed on 16mm film

Eh. Wait and see. I like Jonah a lot but he’s a first time director and this seems awfully derivative.

[toku]

Dwayne The Rock Johnson Chinese funded Die Hard knock off? No thank you

Dave Bautista Sudden Death knock off in a european soccer stadium? yes plz

[BlueTsunami]

Trailer for MOTY 2018 is out!!!

Amazing.

Jonah Hill written and directed on 16mm film

Eh. Wait and see. I like Jonah a lot but he’s a first time director and this seems awfully derivative.

Fricken Bo Burnham made a critical darling in Eighth Grade (opens this weekend for me). At this point it feels like anything is possible!

[Tasty]

That trailer definitely is trying really hard to seem like (a mid-30 white guy's vague memory of) the 90s.

[benjipwns]

i don't know if i can handle the whole playing twisted metal with a snes controller tho

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/A24/status/1021768393496698880

https://twitter.com/red_tonka/status/1021779924833591296

from Blue and filler in the garbage dump thread

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[TVC15]

You know, I’ll see it just because A24 owned Manabyte. Fuck, I’ll make it my movie of the year for that reason. What other movie can top that? There’d have to be a really fat person shitting on a pic of Bobbo.

[TVC15]

Also I wanted to see Eighth Grade until BlueTsunami made me look up who Bo Burnham is and fuck that dude. All of these YouTube twerps should be put on the first train to Ameriauschwitz, wherever it ends up being.

[Momo]

T H E  L A N D I N G  W A S  F A K E

[Dickie Dee]

Mission: Impossible - Fallout at 97% fresh on RT w/ 95 reviews

 

[Rahxephon91]

Can’t fucking wait for MI!

[toku]

Way of the gun is on netflix now so I've definitely rewatched it like 4 times in the last year lol McQuarrie been had the juice.

Heres a very excellent interview:
https://johnaugust.com/2017/scriptnotes-ep-300-from-writer-to-writer-director-transcript

(only available to listen for premium subs tho)

[TVC15]

Way of the gun is on netflix now so I've definitely rewatched it like 4 times in the last year lol McQuarrie been had the juice.

Heres a very excellent interview:
https://johnaugust.com/2017/scriptnotes-ep-300-from-writer-to-writer-director-transcript

(only available to listen for premium subs tho)

Underrated flick! I saw it way back when it first came out in theaters.

[Stoney Mason]

There are better choices but m personal pick would 48 hours and Another 48 hours.

God I hated Another 48 Hours.

[TVC15]

There could be a whole thread on classic movies with terrible sequels, and breaking that down into how many it took to get there, biggest drop off, years between movies, etc. 

My vote for all time biggest drop between original and first sequel might be Predator to Predator 2. The drop off from all time classic of its genre to utterly horrible follow up that changed everything that made the original good and involved none of the cast/crew of the original and somehow the series went DOWN from there.

Anyway, I'm watching and giffing ANOES 1 for the first time on an uncompressed bluray file and man, this is really underrated for camera shots and lighting. A lot of it is either too dark or washed out or blurry even on bluray rips due to compression you can find online if you're into breaking the law. I've seen this movie 300 times and am noticing things I've never seen before, or gaining a new appreciation for certain shots.

Predator 2 ain't too hot but it has good bits. Poltergeist 2 is toilet town front to back.

Did you watch that like 6 hour ANOES documentary? It's pretty great and really watchable despite its length.

[Joe Molotov]

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https://www.cosmicbooknews.com/x-men-dark-phoenix-new-mutants-canceled

Huge grain of salt since it seems illogical to cancel two movies that have made it to post production, but who knows, the whole Disney/Fox thing is unprecedented to begin with.

Shame about New Mutants, it looked cool. And this would be the second time a Dark Phoenix movie got fucked over by the studio haha.

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Sony really seems intent on shooting these turds out their ass as rapidly as possible.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Watched I, Tonya.

Really enjoyed it. Margot Robbie is amazing.

[Purrp Skirrp]

[TVC15]

YASDSSSSSSSSSSSS

Can we get a Joe Bob smiley?

[Tasty]

It appears the post-credits scene for Teen Titans Go To The Movies blows the pants off anything Marvel Studios has ever done.

[TVC15]

I don’t think he was BSing about intended messages. He did make The People Under the Stairs, after all.

[TVC15]

I still disagree—Wes has always had airs about him. You can’t deny the similarities between Last House on the Left and The Virgin Spring, for example.

One thing he didn’t frequently have was the budget or support to finish his movies, so maybe this is why you don’t see it.

[Tasty]

I kinda hate Last House on the Left.

New Nightmare was a masterpiece tho Edit- STRO

[Joe Molotov]

He made Swamp Thing, that’s good enough for me.

[Tasty]

Aside from New Nightmare this is the best thing ANOES has produced.

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Also I watched The Serpent and the Rainbow a few days ago, it was OK. Bill Pullman really pulls it together but it's not scary or foreboding enough to be a great horror flick IMO.

[TVC15]

Here's what I think:

Wes Craven made a lot of not very good movies, and two classics (New Nightmare, Scream)

Last House is good for a watch, especially because of the Virgin Spring connection.
ANOES is a classic.
Serpent and the Rainbow is almost a classic (this is a case of money running out/producers getting impatient. The last third or so is pretty bad)
People Under the Stairs is a classic (this and Serpent still feel really novel. There isn’t really much like them)
Scream is a classic

New Nightmare falls off a cliff after the first half or so for me. It has a novel start but ends pretty standard.

Oh, I’ll Stan for Swamp Thing. Adrienne Barbeau and Ray Wise? Yes plz.

[Tasty]

I thought it was good enough that I didn't feel I wasted my time. The setting was interesting and different enough to make it fresh to me, and honestly Hotel Rwanda scared the piss out of me so I retroactively channeled some of that into my viewing... The mystery of "is it occult, or is it science" fascinated me... until the reveal that the occult shit was real (seriously, why not leave it ambiguous?) And as I said Bill Pullman really drew me in.

IMO it's a very mixed movie.

[TVC15]

Here's what I think:

Wes Craven made a lot of not very good movies, and two classics (New Nightmare, Scream)

Last House is good for a watch, especially because of the Virgin Spring connection.
ANOES is a classic.
Serpent and the Rainbow is almost a classic (this is a case of money running out/producers getting impatient)
People Under the Stairs is a classic (this and Serpent still feel really novel. There isn’t really much like them)
Scream is a classic

New Nightmare falls off a cliff after the first half or so for me. It has a novel start but ends pretty standard.

Oh, I’ll Stan for Swamp Thing. Adrienne Barbeau and Ray Wise? Yes plz.

You don't think ANOES 1 falls off a cliff half way through?

No, man I think it’s by far the best movie in the series. It’s at least a yearly watch for me. That and 2 are the only Elm Street flicks that get that honor.

[Tasty]

3 is so much better than 2 that that post immediately throws your entire evaluation of the series into question.

Like, I'm gay, and I like that aspect of 2 as well, but come on man. Dream Warriors. Welcome to prime time, bitch.

[Tasty]

It's like saying Friday Part 2 is better than Friday Part 4. You're not gonna get a lot of support for that one.

[TVC15]

I thought it was good enough that I didn't feel I wasted my time. The setting was interesting and different enough to make it fresh to me, and honestly Hotel Rwanda scared the piss out of me so I retroactively channeled some of that into my viewing... The mystery of "is it occult, or is it science" fascinated me... until the reveal that the occult shit was real (seriously, why not leave it ambiguous?) And as I said Bill Pullman really drew me in.

IMO it's a very mixed movie.

They had to do the ending really quickly—iirc like everything after the return to Haiti was done or written quickly and while shooting, hence it turning into a magic fest.

[TVC15]

3 is so much better than 2 that that post immediately throws your entire evaluation of the series into question.

Like, I'm gay, and I like that aspect of 2 as well, but come on man. Dream Warriors. Welcome to prime time, bitch.

Well, I didn’t say 2 was -better- than anything, just that I end up watching it like yearly. It’s an entertaining train wreck.

[Tasty]

The ending I was OK with -- Bill Pullman desperately pleading to locals that he's not dead and to not bury him is goddamn haunting.

But the dude's wife getting possessed and attacking him? Shit, I can think of better reasons to get Pullman back to Haiti in 10 minutes than that shit. Keep it ambiguous and creepy. Is it science, or is it supernatural? Riding THAT line is what made the movie so initially compelling.

[TVC15]

That’s also unsurprisingly the point where it completely diverges from the book.

[Tasty]

Idk I really love 2 as well. Gun to my head I won't say it's better than 3, but I enjoy it a lot and have watched it more than 1 and 3 over the past decade.

I'd rather watch 2-6 more than 1 and New Nightmare even if I think New Nightmare is the best overall movie of the series. FvJ still bums me out  :'(

FvJ is objectively a shit movie, but I love it. And I think it did the best with both characters that it could have done considering the circumstances.

And at the VERY least they fought a couple times throughout the movie. Fuck Versus movies that only have a single confrontation at the end.

[Tasty]

Maybe I should rewatch ANOES 2, I've only ever seen it once I think.

[TVC15]

I liked FvJ the first time I saw it, but I couldn’t make it through a second time.

Honestly, I watch Friday the 13th movies more (and I suppose find them more entertaining) than any of the ANOES movies, and the Friday movies are ALL terrible! I never watch Jason Takes Manhattan or Jason Goes to Hell though.  Those are absolutely not entertaining to watch.

[Tasty]

8 and 9 are pretty much unwatchable. 8 at least has those last 20 minutes in Manhattan which are a ton of fun. 9 is straight trash and I will ALWAYS hate it.

My dream in life is to write and/or direct a Friday the 13th movie. I think that could be an achievable goal if I play my cards right.

[Tasty]

Ultimately I don't think there was any way that FvJ could have ended up a good movie, but having a director who hadn't seen any of the movies in either series, who took a similar approach to the Child's Play series by not knowing shit about them before directing and completely changing the tone of the series probably didn't help. What you got was like....25% of a shitty F13th movie, 60% of a shitty ANOES movie, 15% early 00s popculture trash that immediately dated it terribly.

Ironically, that 15% of 2000's trash is what makes the movie so compelling and hilarious to rewatch these days. IMO anyways.

[Tasty]

FvJ really should have just gotten the real Jay and Silent Bob instead of the knockoffs.

[Tasty]

What is it?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/NGameTheCube/status/1022639650991525888

When there's trouble, you know who to call, bitch.

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[Tasty]

F13th is a slog to get through, really the best ones are the original and the remake.

However I love JGTH so

[Tasty]

You wanna stan for Halloween? A series with barely 2.5 decent movies to rub together? OK breh.

[TVC15]

I didn’t think the F13 remake was terrible, but it’s a good example of why Hollywood will never get the series right. These movies need to be cheap and trashy. They don’t need characterization or acceptable acting or a narrative. As long as a studio controls the license, the series will never be properly cared for again.

[Tasty]

Yeah, I want to stan for a series that has the GOAT horror movie, one of the best slasher sequels, a wholly unrelated film that is probably the third best John Carpenter movie behind Halloween and The Thing (I know he didn't direct it, but Season of The Witch is about as Carpenter of a movie as you can possibly get), two different "ten years later" sequels that are both pretty solid, then some duds.

With the amount of asterisks on this post I thought it was a Tom Brady Superbowl win.

[Tasty]

F13 Remake >>> Halloween Remake >>>>>>> ANOES Remake

[Tasty]

Let's not act like Carpenter was Horror Jesus either. Have you seen Ghosts of Mars or The Ward?

Cause I have and they suck worse than any Friday movie (except Jason Goes to Hell, obviously.)

[TVC15]

Third best John Carpenter movie behind Halloween and the Thing?

I might have to retire for the night. I think I’m seeing things.