Topic: The Movie Thread

@FuriousMachine My wife and I both loved the movie and have our fingers crossed a follow up gets Green lit. Having the trilogy fresh in my mind the opening scene was very moving as hours earlier I watched Ceaser keel over in front of the tree with Maurice by his side.

I really enjoyed the Eagle clan culture stuff at the beginning and Noa's journey. Much like Rise I feel this was a great chapter in setting up a new arc with fantastic characters we will get to follow, including 2 that were left open for a return 😉.

I liked the ending it didn't put me up nor down like it has some viewers. Let's just see where they take us next!

@Malaise 100% agree with you there and I also wanted to see over her shoulder at the end... my imagination made it suitably horrible, though
As for tracking down Madame Web, I feel I should warn you: There are plenty of "good crap" films out there, but I would venture that Madame Web is not one of them It was just completely devoid of entertainment, in my opinion, and I so wanted to like it.

@MightyDemon82 So happy to hear that you both loved it!
I liked the ending fine, unlike some critics out there, but I do worry a little bit about where they take it from here
It seems like it's gearing up to another War for the Planet of The Apes, and we've already seen that. It's also almost impossible to tell that conflict better than they already have, but hopefully they will choose a more interesting direction for the sequels (fingers crossed that this is successful enough for that greenlight) Oh, and more Dichen Lachman will always be welcome, and I hope to see the return of characters that seemingly drowned

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Just watch the trailer... ? No, it's good, but I'd say the trailer does sell the best parts. A bit self indulgent, Tarantino style. Not entirely sure if it wants to be as cool as possible, or not stray too far from its "true story" roots. The film is a good time with fun action, a quippy script and cool score. I'd watch it again, just don't spoil it for yourself by looking too hard.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Cinema) - 2 & a half hours of monkeys with no poop throwing 0/10! Seriously though, it could be a bit slow in the first half, but it ended up being pretty good. Definite sequel bait at the end, though.

Grave of the Fireflies (Blu-Ray) - Absolutely gut wrenching stuff. Still don't entirely understand why the kid didn't ultimately suck it up & go crawling back to his aunt though. She was a bit of a donkey's behind, but it's not like she actively kicked them out or anything (though maybe it would have gone against the "polite" sensibilities of Japanese society for her to physically kick them out, and her behavior was the "polite" way of telling the kids to get lost, I dunno).

I treated myself to Aliens on 4K. I've said before it is one of my favourite films, so it was a matter of when and not if. I had a bit of an unexpected refund from Amazon, so I used that towards it.

@JohnnyShoulder Sounds like a good use for the refund to me
I suppose you haven't received it yet, but I'm interested to hear what you think of it, as it seems quite divisive (The Digital Bits review said that they expect that many people will hate it, but that they themselves got used to it and didn't mind it)

@FuriousMachine You were right about Madame Web. That is all.

@FuriousMachine I ordered 4 pairs of socks, and one pair was not in the packet. When I reported it, they refunded me for the whole lot! 😂

It's being delivered on Saturday with some other stuff. When I get round to actually watching it it another matter though. I think I'm fairly up to date with watching anything I've bought.

Bullet Train

I almost forgot I watched it. I don't think it's quite as clever as it thinks it is, but it's a fun watch.

watched half of Club Dread on Tubi last night. Still have the rest of the movie to watch tonight

Back to School (Blu-Ray) - I'd seen bits & pieces of this before on TV, but realized I'd never seen the whole thing (or much of anything else with Rodney Dangerfield, other than Caddyshack), so I decided to pick this up on BD (a double pack with another of his comedies, which I also watched). I don't think Dangerfield is quite up there as Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, or John Candy when it comes to big 80's comedians, but this was still a pretty fun watch, as he plays a wealthy business owner with a working class mentality who decides to attend college with his son (he skipped out when he was younger to work for his father's clothing business, which he inherited & expanded into a national chain).

Easy Money (Blu-Ray) - the other Dangerfield film in the double pack. This time in the role of a middle class father who has a weakness for various vices (gambling, drinking, smoking, gluttony, etc), however when his mother in-law passes away she leaves the family her $10,000,000 retail empire, but only if he can straighten himself out & refrain from partaking in any of his vices for a year. I didn't much care for the subplot involving his daughter's marriage, but other than that, I'd say I enjoyed this one a bit more of the two films.

Paprika (4K UHD Blu-Ray) - Anime film in which a small group of scientists & a detective get caught up in a case where someone steals a device that let's them go into/merge people dreams, and people start dying after being afflicted with delusions while awake. It's a pretty twisty & trippy tale, and also very gorgeous. Interesting watch.

Easy Money has its funny moments, especially with Dangerfield's signature one-liners and physical comedy. I found it funnier than Back to School, even though the subplot with his daughter's marriage felt a bit off to me but overall a good movie

Saw Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga last night and I couldn't help coming away a little disappointed (and it's funny, but I sort of feel a little bit guilty about it). I can't point to anything that's really wrong with it, but I made the mistake of watching Fury Road literally right before leaving for the theatre and was sort of expecting more of the same. The leads are good, the action sequences are excellent, the world-building fantastic and yet I was never fully engaged with it. I believe it may have been a case of going in with wrong expectations, so I'll probably activate my movie-pass power and go see it again.

It also tied surprisingly well into to Avalanche's waaaay underrated video game. I think I read somewhere that the game isn't canon, but a couple of characters made their way into this movie, notably Scrotus and Chumbucket. Not sure if they've appeared elsewhere before, but I was pretty sure at least Chumbucket was created for the game.