Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Philip Cardgage]

Well finally got to see Benson & Moorhead's Synchronic. I fucking love Resolution, Spring and The Endless and was looking forward to this.

It's good, maybe even great, but I think it's definitely the weakest of the four films so far. The story concept is interesting and the direction still has that great sci-fi film w/horror tension/ambiance that their other flicks tend to have. But some aspects of the story felt a little too simplistic and I thought it puttered out at a bit at the end. Also even with this being their biggest budget film with actual stars, it feels sooooo budget. I'm glad they're always punching above their weight pushing interesting sci-fi stuff with limited budget, but it'll be nice with Moon Knight to see what they can do with a real production budget.

That being said I sure hope they get included in the writer's room for Moon Knight. I'd argue their writing and creative stories are a bigger strength than their directing style. I know for the films, unless you're James Gunn, Marvel tends to be pretty studio control, but maybe for the TV stuff they'll be more open to creator input. I gotta imagine if Feige liked their catalogue to hire them and give them Oscar Issac & Ethan Hawke then Feige probably liked their stories and would see the strength of having them on as writers for Moon Knight.

Also I guess they'll have another film before Moon Knight? I saw an interview on Synchronic from a few months back and they said they were about 3 months into a shoot on their new "film" and were quarantining with the cast & crew. I guess Moon Knight is probably like 2022 thing. Looking forward to their next flick.

If you haven't seen their previous stuff, skip Synchronic and go watch those.

I still think Spring is their best movie and Endless being their worst. Endless felt like a movie that wanted to have cool looking scenes and they wrote the plot around those story boarded parts. It didn't feel cohesive at all. Spring is dead simple and its great for that.

I've been meaning to watch this, just need to be in the right mood, I guess.

Correction: Bonestorm is their worst.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/people/status/1351224401656754177

Guess she did not like the Snyder Cut 

[EchoRin]

We got a chance again boys

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[team filler]

is she a cubcomm 

[Philip Cardgage]

His dick don't work no more.

[Philip Cardgage]

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1351582090307973120

Why

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1351582090307973120

Why

https://mobile.twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1351597123012276229

[Tasty]

Shit that's a hot trailer concept tho

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1351582090307973120

Why

I'm very glad that this will inevitably lose a truckload of money.

[naff]

y'all reckon willy going to fuck a oompa loompa?

[Nintex]

aaawww yiiisssss

First teaser released for Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World, the latest series from journalist and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker, Adam Curtis. The series will premiere exclusively on BBC iPlayer on 11 February 2021.
 
Can’t Get You Out of My Head tells the story of how we got to the strange days we are now experiencing. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on.
 
The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West, but in China and Russia as well. It covers a wide range - including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opiods, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.
 
And the films are told in a different way - they are an emotional history of what went on inside the heads of all kinds of people. Because in the age of the individual - what you felt and what you wanted and what you dreamed of were going to become the driving force across the world.
 
What was forgotten in that age was that much of what we feel is also formed by the society around us. Above all by the power structures. And now those structures are decaying - everywhere - their weakness and uncertainty makes us feel empty and frightened of the future.
 
That is what is paralysing us - and blocking us from imagining different kinds of societies and a better future
 
Can’t Get You Out of My Head is an epic history that shows how and why that happened. How we made this particular world. And that it was not inevitable.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

 6 Adam Curtis docs 

2021 off to a bang!

[Nintex]

"This is a story about our minds. How we must protect ourselves against our own thoughts and convictions"

*footage of The Matrix, Boris Johnson drinking a pint and ducks in a pond for no apparent reason"

"Our series of films begins in Vietnam. Where reality managed to overtake the facade and make belief world the Americans and their allies had created for themselves"

*footage of Sadam smiling, McNamara driving his car, kids walking their dog and what could possibly be a burning tree in Vietnam but also Switzerland*

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/007/status/1352416833815633922

NO
   TIME
         TO
            RELEASE

[Tasty]

Next one will have been cast, shot, and released before the last Craig movie

[Nintex]

Next one will have been cast, shot, and released before the last Craig movie

MGM is for sale but apparently no one has bought it yet 

I dunno, I'm fearing for the future of Mr. Bond at this point.

[Tuckers Law]

It’s kind of a shame the movies make so much money for them, as I think the property is prime material for a badass serial show somewhere like HBO or Netflix

[chronovore]

http://twitter.com/incredibleculk/status/1349248426542657538


Would purchase.

[chronovore]

https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1350881488934367233

4 hours of Snyder

Not drawing this BS out over multiple episodes

It’s a “save the marketing department“ move. If consumers watched the first episode and then didn’t watch the remaining ones, it would be clear evidence that this was a bad move. I making it a one episode entry, they can always argue that the viewers will tune in later to watch the rest of it, because it’s four hours.

Guaranteed, this is simply positioning.

[Tasty]

Bingo.

[Coax]

NO
   TIME
         TO
            RELEASE

It's so strange seeing it pushed back a year and a half from its original date. I'm curious how they'll re-market it next year given the build up is kinda lost and the existing promotional media about it.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1352255420371447808

 

Why don't they just deep fake this shit at this point

[Madrun Badrun]

Going to watch Psyco Goreman tonight. 

edit: was really dumb.  I enjoyed it.

[EchoRin]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1352255420371447808

 

Why don't they just deep fake this shit at this point

I need to go to some red state movie theater surrounded by boomers whooping and hollering and clapping to see this.

[chronovore]

Re-watched Fifth Element for maybe the fifth time (hey!). Really enjoyed it this time, as I think I was hoping for a less-eurocomic plotline every other time I'd seen it. It's beautiful and dumb and makes more sense as an emotional journey rather than actual science fiction. Also, in what world does Luke Perry get a special callout credit in a movie with Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Ian Fucking Holm?

Watching DOOM (2005) with consistently awesome Karl Urban, can't-decide-on-an-accent Rosamund Pike, and "this predates his ability to save any movie" Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. When groping for a means to make a movie about a videogame about a single marine destroying hordes of demons, Director Andrzej Bartkowiak decided to just poorly ape almost every beat of the movie Aliens, where a whole group of soldiers spend most of the movie tracking down the source of an incident rather than fighting.

Speaking of movies that The Rock can't save (for me) I got about 45 minutes into Hobbs and Shaw (Japanese title: WILD SPEED: SUPER COMBO) before I couldn't take the stupid any more. I'm always up for the level of childish joy afforded by the other fast-and-furious films, but this was missing some sort of internal coherence that those other Hot Wheels inspired movies have. Just super-dumb.

[Nintex]

Watched Constantine and hadn't seen it in a long time. I like the look of this film and the setting. The CG hasn't really aged well (as with some other mid-2000's movies) and I think this would be a movie that would benefit from a modern day reboot. (considering the ending, they could actually do a sequel with Keanu and Weisz regardless). I had forgotten that Peter Stormare who was part of the John Wick cast also shows up in this movie. Although it can be messy and convoluted at times it's also a fun and interesting watch that was made before every comic book movie had to end in a massive CG fight. Part comic book movie, part detective film noir.




Constantine also reminded me again about the bad luck Rachel Weisz had in her career and how underrated she is. Despite doing the excellent Enemy at the Gates around the same time it didn't land her a lot of big roles.
Instead she got supporting roles in The Mummy and Constantine (which never got a sequel). When she finallly got to do Bourne, it ended up being the Jeremy Renner film but she didn't make the cut for Dark Knight Rises
Then she started doing more drama and horror until she finally got an award for a TV show in 2018 I think and now she's (finally) entering the Marvel universe with Black Widow.
I feel like she could've easily been cast for Bond movies and all that if she hadn't been tied to some big flops.

Underrated

[Tasty]

Man I was so hype for Constantine back in the day. The style still holds up. Keanu is great. Best Lucifer and Gabriel in fiction.

[Nintex]

Man I was so hype for Constantine back in the day. The style still holds up. Keanu is great. Best Lucifer and Gabriel in fiction.

It's sort of Blade Runner esque I would say. Putting the focus entirely on Angela and Constantine while everything else plays out in the background makes it work.
Also none of those lengthy explanatory dialogues, when Angela asks how things work Constantine simply shows her. That makes for a much more effective way of story telling as she (and by extension the audience) doesn't know what's going to happen before it does and can genuinely be surprised by events.

[Tasty]

Man I was so hype for Constantine back in the day. The style still holds up. Keanu is great. Best Lucifer and Gabriel in fiction.

It's sort of Blade Runner esque I would say. Putting the focus entirely on Angela and Constantine while everything else plays out in the background makes it work.
Also none of those lengthy explanatory dialogues, when Angela asks how things work Constantine simply shows her. That makes for a much more effective way of story telling as she (and by extension the audience) doesn't know what's going to happen before it does and can genuinely be surprised by events.

You're right, and while back in the day I think a blockbuster film (especially comic book adaptation) would get dinged for focusing on the "lower-powered" characters in comparison to the "epic struggle," it worked for Constantine I think because: a) both "sides" were both good and balanced well, and b) it's only a ding when used as an excuse to cheap-out, and Constantine had a visibly high budget.



And it knew when to use it, the Hell scenes are still dope.

[Bebpo]

Watched Psycho Goreman

It was...a good movie? Color me surprised 
It's dumb and should be bad, but it's pretty consistently funny and it somehow all works?

I was mixed on The Void and didn't see his Leprechaun Returns, but Psycho Goreman feels like Marvel could poach him to do something similar to Guardians (he's definitely channeling some James Gunn) if he's just willing to tone down his gore because his stuff is reaaaaaal gory, which ain't gonna fly for Marvel. But the humor is pretty similar to Guardians of the Galaxy in Psycho Goreman and the costume and practical effects are really good for the budget.

Thumbs up.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Constantine also reminded me again about the bad luck Rachel Weisz had in her career and how underrated she is.

post-#metoo, you have to wonder about 'bad luck' in actress careers versus just getting stealth blacklisted for not sucking old man dick

[Don Rumata]

She was in some big movies. 
The Mummy was a popular blockbuster, and recently with Lanthimos in Lobster and The Favourite, which won an Oscar (not her, but still).

Not everyone can be Meryl Streep-level of stardom.

Also watch her in Agorà. really nice movie, and she was great in it.
I think the first time i saw Oscar Isaac, too.

[Tasty]

She was also da green witch in the last Oz

[Transhuman]

You're all forgetting her best role

[MMaRsu]

[Bebpo]

As someone that liked Kong and liked 50% of KOTM, that trailer looks pretty terrible. No wonder they waited two months before release to drop any footage. Tonally seems bad.

Also, they really shrunk Godzilla down and sized up Kong. Zilla looks lame af.

[Stro]

Escape from L.A. (1996)


I don't think the story or characters are any more silly or outlandish as they were in Escape from N.Y., but man these effects Honestly, this feels like Kurt Russell is mostly to blame for this movie being what it is. Starring, co-writing, producer. The action scenes in this movie are just not the type of things John Carpenter writes. It very much felt like Kurt Russell writing in shit to make himself look like a cool bad ass and the only reason it was getting made at all was because of him so they went with all of it and that led to all the bad CGI to do cool shit for Kurt Russell. If the budget had been a bit lower, I'm sure it would have been much better because all of the effects would have been practical and most of those scenes wouldn't have even been shot at all because there wasn't a way to make them look good so he'd just not do it at all and just cut to the end of the scene. NY has no budget and really very few effects or actions scenes to speak of and gets everything across in setting and tone, much like They Live and other non-horror Carpenter movies. Which is not to say John Carpenter isn't capable of writing and filming some real trash, but I just do not believe John Carpenter would write action scenes like the surfing or hangliding scenes in this movie.

[nudemacusers]

As someone that liked Kong and liked 50% of KOTM, that trailer looks pretty terrible. No wonder they waited two months before release to drop any footage. Tonally seems bad.

Also, they really shrunk Godzilla down and sized up Kong. Zilla looks lame af.

i hope it flops tbh

[Don Rumata]

KOTM was one of the worst movies i've seen in the last 5 years tbh.
Just a miserable experience, but i also disliked Kong, so...

Then again, one is armed with a nuclear laser, the other with impenetrable Plot Armor, we know who wins.

[chronovore]

You're all forgetting her best role

 I really love that movie.

[Bebpo]

Yeah Brothers Bloom is great. Rian Johnson is probably the best 2000s era newer writer/director.

And Weisz has always been great. She reminds me of Winona Ryder a lot. Also her Snow White photoshoot is pretty great if you haven't seen it.

[Tasty]

Lol they heavily downplaying Dune now compared to past spots (maybe more a release timing thing I guess.)

Was so hyped to have just 1 second of Matrix footage but no

It still got my kinda hyped tho

[Philip Cardgage]

What were we supposed to see?

[Bebpo]

Lol they heavily downplaying Dune now compared to past spots (maybe more a release timing thing I guess.)

Was so hyped to have just 1 second of Matrix footage but no

It still got my kinda hyped tho

I mean they're still showing Dune footage, so it seems like it's still included in Day 1 streaming.

[chronovore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Possession_of_Hannah_Grace

There is so much voicing aloud of details that could have just been shown, not just people saying things they're clearly feeling, but even an unrealistically thorough elevator floor computer announcement that somehow extends into the entire morgue. The telegraphing of plot points is ridiculous. Not just Chekov's Gun, but his holster, bullets, fireplace, fireplace runner, and ash-guard. Really awkward. It's a shame a competent Director of Photography and reasonably skilled actors are wasted on this.

It's not horrible — but it's within spitting distance of it while somehow being otherwise within reach of competent. The core of a decent story is also present, but maybe this resulted from over-reliance on focus testing, re-shoots, or voiceover. Feels like it's genre-lost.

[Stro]

I wanna watch The Predator because it's free and wanna lol at how shitty it must be but then I saw it stars Boyd Hollbrook and I hate that fuckin' guy so I'm gonna pass.

[Madrun Badrun]

I thought The Predator was really good once I realized it was meant to be a parody of the franchise.  It also is pretty interesting because it walks the line of parody so well, especially at the beginning

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and then Olivia Munn shoots herself in the foot with a tranq gun and takes a nose dive off the top of a bus

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[Great Rumbler]

Just what you'd expect from the Masters, Anno-san and Higuchi-san.

[Tasty]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/friday-the-13th-producer-sues-warner-bros-paramount-for-profits

On the one hand, yet another obstacle between us and a new movie

On the other hand, gives me more time to perfect my own take on the series

[Stro]

There's nothing stopping you from making a movie about a serial killer named Mason in a lacrosse mask killing pot smoking, sex having teens or young adults at a camp.

[Tasty]

There's nothing stopping you from making a movie about a serial killer named Mason in a lacrosse mask killing pot smoking, sex having teens or young adults at a camp.

True, but certain meta aspects of the story (and winks to fans) wouldn't work as well. I've thought about it and gone back and forth over the years, and right now I'm doing it as a F13 spec purely for the trunk / "portfolio".

If I ever get to make it some day, cool. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Tasty]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/apparently-joss-whedon-wanted-avengers-age-of-ultron-to-include-visions-penis/1100-6486830/

Missed opportunity.

[Joe Molotov]

WangdaVision

[Tuckers Law]

Finally got around to watching Phantom Thread.  Excellent movie, what a twisted girl that Alma is.

[Nintex]

Watched Baby Driver with a friend because that was the only thing short enough so he could be back home in time for the curfew. 

One of my recent favorite easy going action films I guess, you can watch this anytime with anyone. Some heartfelt moments (Joe, Deborah), some cool action and of course Jamie Foxx, being Jamie Foxx.
Very creative use of licensed music and because it's an Edgar Wright movie a lot of time has been spend to give it a distinct look.





Although I'm still not sure if that ending is a dream in his head or if that actually happens 

[Sideshow Raheem]

I'm excited to see Godzilla vs. Kong, but the trailer was godawful. Wooden Actors, Pointless Exposition: The Trailer, they should have called it.

"Kong bows to no one!" -- Except to a child, and also he's in chains.

"Godzilla is out there, hurting people, and we don't know why!" -- This is possibly the stupidest line of dialogue since "Let them fight!" Godzilla the gigantic monster is hurting people? With its giant body and atomic breath? Hurting people?

And Millard Fillmore Booby Bonilla Downtown Julie Brown: There's something provoking Godzilla! We don't see it!

What a ridiculous and wholly unnecessary way to ruin your monster movie.

Give us some angry rap music and 30 seconds of punching. End trailer.

[Tasty]

Agreed, bad trailer for what should be a decent popcorn flick.

[Madrun Badrun]

Saw Nightbreed first time since I was a kid.  What a great movie.  It really needs like a 3 season netflix adaptation. 

[Don Rumata]

Give us some angry rap music and 30 seconds of punching. End trailer.

Only quote you need:
https://twitter.com/armonz2408/status/1186628103554191360