Topic: The Movie Thread

I watched Scanners this evening, it wasn’t bad, kind of lost me at one point but some nice twists and turns and it picked up toward the end!

@RR529 For Your Eyes Only is solid enough but I thought it was one of the weaker Bond films. If you want a really good ‘80’s Bond film, check out Licence To Kill. Hope you enjoy For Your Eyes Only though and looking forward to your thoughts .

I need to go through the Bond films in order soon. It’s the only way I’ll get to watching the terrible films lol.

@RogerRoger, @cheetahman91, we have a set of movie channels (Encore, I think) that our cable company gives to us for free every once in awhile, and they tend to get into periods where they marathon lots of the pre-Craig Bond films, so I've seen them all, mostly in bits & pieces though (and as such they may run together in my memory a bit), so it'll be nice to sit down and watch them on my schedule.

No particular reason to start with For Your Eyes Only other than the fact that since it released in '81, it's the earliest 80's release.

@RogerRoger Yeah I do believe you listed your favorite Bond films at one point and you had some interesting choices at the top. Totally down for talking about all the films. Who knows, we might agree on a couple lol. And if you makes you feel any better, Licence To Kill isn’t one of my all time favorites. In all fairness though, I at the very least like the 17 films I’ve seen.

Well after moaning on here the other day about how I don't really like superhero films, I watched Into The Spiderverse and actually quite enjoyed it. So there you go.

@Gremio108 Yeah it's brilliant, defo one of my fave movies of the year.

@Ralizah I ordered Stand Alone Complex on Blueray, hopefully I get through it but my track record isn’t so hot with series!

@kyleforrester87 Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex? If so, you're in for a treat. Season 1 mostly great, then season 2 builds on that and is even better.

@crimsontadpoles yeah that’s right, I guess this isn’t the thread to talk about it but good to hear it’s decent!

@RogerRoger which HMV you using?

@RogerRoger fair enough, I nipped into the Shepherds Bush one today, only a handful of them left, actually I don’t really understand how any of them have remained open. Still, it tends to have quite a good selection.

@kyleforrester87 @RogerRoger Still got a HMV in Swindon. It did close down when they went into administration a couple of years back, but then it reopened. I did but something from there quite recently but I forget what it was. I've not bought any blu rays for ages now so it was not that. It might have been an emergency pair of ear phones when the current ones suddenly stopped working.

@RogerRoger Somewhere in the UK there's a HMV which contains nothing but DVDs and Blu-Rays of Dredd.

Nice haul of Blu-Rays @RogerRoger !

Just... there is no fifth Die Hard. You'll be telling me next it's set it in Russia for no reason and have the horribly bland plank of wood Jai Courtney in it as the secondary protagonist!

Anyone remotely pumped for the next Rambo film? It looks.. alright (better than Dark Fate, anyway!) but I thought the last one was pretty cool.

I hate to say this but... There was a new Rambo @kyleforrester87 ?

Please don't tell me it's like ten years old or something as well! I don't need to feel any older then I already am with all the forgetfulness I've been plagued with today 😅

@kyleforrester87 I dunno. Rambo’s getting a bit old for this. He could be in a retirement home if he wanted to lol.

Speaking of which, watched First Blood last night. Quite a good movie. Honestly I prefer the whole troubled war hero angle over just being an unstoppable b****s. Not to say he isn’t in this movie, but it makes the character a bit more interesting.

So... Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Cute premise, the actress chosen to play Dora pulls off the role well, and there are a number of cute references to the TV show. Unfortunately, the movie is unfocued and never seems to know what it wants to be: it starts off as a basic deconstruction of the TV show concept, transitions into a Tarzan-esque fish out of water story, then becomes some weird mashup of a family film and a Tomb Raider-esque adventure story, and it never really feels like it finds its narrative focus. The humor is often terrible and the film oftentimes doesn't seem to know when to let a joke go before it gets actively annoying. The script was bad enough in this regard that even the very funny Michael Peña becomes actively irritating because of the material he's given. Dora is forced to team up with a group of children from her school (along with a childhood friend), but I never really bought the evolution of their group dynamic from 'a bunch of strangers forced into a bad situation together' to 'a group of tight-knit friends who will risk their lives' for one-another. It feels like the characterization rapidly shifts from one mode to the other when the plot demands it, and it took me out of the film. There's a bizarre sequence in the film where Dora and the others hallucinate that they're characters from the cartoon, but it never really amounts to anything. There's a similarly bizarre and random scene later on involving Boots the Monkey.

Not a terrible time overall, but I feel like the film was off to a good start and, with the likable central actress, it could have gone places. Unfortunately, it squandered that potential.

Kudos to the film for recreating the cartoon opening in live-action and ending with a "We did it!" song. It's the little things.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy haha well it’s the 2008 one so not exactly “new” anymore, surely you know about that one though? But there is another coming next year or something. Last Blood I think they are calling it.

... I didn't know about it no! Off to the old folks home for me then @kyleforrester87 ! 😂

To be fair I've never really followed the Rambo films at all. In fact... I might not have actually seen any of them besides the second and that was only in passing!