Topic: The Movie Thread

@Gremio108 Haha. I'll still be watching it, for completion's sake.

@Frigate I really enjoyed it. It seems that even with KotM being directed by a kaiju fan - they still can't seem to make a Godzilla film that feels really satisfying.

It was a good watch, but I still felt like we should've had more monsters and less Millie Bobby Brown.

@Frigate @KALofKRYPTON Both the story and human characters were very weak in the sequel. When it becomes available on Netflix, I'll be skipping all the human scenes when I rewatch KoTM.lol

@Frigate At least Drake liked it then...

@WanderingBullet A supercut of both films could be pretty good! (and probably already exists! )

... Meanwhile I'm watching The Dark Crystal before I then start the new netflix series.

Darn those Skeksis and Mystic puppets are still so darn good

Saw Ready or Not in theaters recently. One of the best black comedies I've seen in years, with solid casting, a consistently witty script, surprisingly suspenseful direction, and a fantastic climax. It's also quite realistically gory, although the impact of these deaths is softened somewhat by the often extremely dry humor surrounding death in this film.

@KALofKRYPTON The best part of Ocean's 8 was Sarah Paulson by far and away. I enjoyed the cast overall, but definitely was nothing special. Fun while watching, but ultimately forgettable.

@WanderingBullet I really hope they move ahead with casting Emily Blunt! I'm really not into the MCU, but that would make me automatically excited. She deserves the recognition. Somewhat the same effect that casting Brie Larson for Captain Marvel had on me. She's the only reason I even willingly went to see Captain Marvel and Endgame opening weekend.

@Ralizah I WISH Ready or Not was showing in either local cinema, but unfortunately it isn't. Looks really fun. I'm glad to hear it didn't disappoint, and possibly even exceeded expectations! It'll be interesting to see Kristian Bruun in such a role as well after his pure, innocent performance of Donnie in Orphan Black.

@LN78 Room is one of my all-time favourite movies, so I adore Brie Larson. I would've gone either way, but Brie Larson being a part of it was the only reason I was actually excited to see it and not dreading the three-hour slog. It ended up exceeding my expectations though, I'll give it that, even with Brie having barely anything to do in the movie.

@Tjuz Yeah, I wouldn't mind the idea of her being cast as Sue Richards either. I think Emily Blunt's a great actress.

Would've like to see David Harbour as Ben Grimm too but he's already playing the Red Guardian in the Black Widow solo movie.

For fans of Godzilla.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VLJ9KB6/ref=ox_sc_act_ti...

Haven't seen many of the older movies but I'm not planning on getting it. Like the packaging artwork, though.

Art Adams even illustrated one of the covers.

@LN78 Edgar Wright's movies are great. Hot Fuzz is one of my all time favourite movies.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-masterpiece-causes-up...

"A searing adaptation of one of most controversial books about the Holocaust divided critics at the Venice film festival Wednesday, with some fighting each other in the dark to get out of its first screening."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/03/the-painted-bird...

"One day they’ll make a film about the first public screening of The Painted Bird, inside the Sala Darsena at the 2019 Venice film festival. It will feature the man who fell full-length on the steps in his effort to escape and the well-dressed woman who became so frantic to get out that she hit the stranger in the next seat. The centrepiece will be the moment 12 viewers broke for the doors only to discover that the exit had been locked."

lol

I love it. Every time some pretentious three-hour exploitation film releases at Venice, half the critics stampede from the theater. What exactly did they think a film version of The Painted Bird, one of the most thoroughly unpleasant novels ever written, would look like, exactly? I wonder if these are the same idiots that raise a stink everytime they attend the premiere of a von Trier film.

@LN78 Well, it was always marketed as fiction, so even though the author was outed as a bit of a liar and narcissist, it didn't result in some huge public shaming. It's not a Million Little Pieces situation. Anyway, it's still considered to be a bit of a classic.

I'll take the satirical obscenities of a Marquis de Sade novel any day, personally.

I'm a big Will Smith fan and I also love buddy cop movies/tv shows. After watching the trailer, I'm really looking forward to Bad Boys For Life. The directors for this movie are also directing Beverly Hills Cop 4.

Four months to go. Woosah.....

@RogerRoger
They are fun films, 3 really suffers from obviously not being written as a Die Hard film though. I think some bought in scripts weren't eventually used because one was set on a train and really similar to Under Siege 2, and another set on a boat, like Under Siege!
The first two Die Hards work because of the confined quarters. Towering Inferno with guns and Airport 1975 with guns are great. 'Not Die Hard' with a major secondary character and lots of city-wide traversal doesn't really work all that well.

Interestingly, Die Hard was initially intended to be a sequel to Commando if I remember correctly. Schwarzenegger apparently got bored in pre-production and backed out, so it was reworked as a stand-alone film with different characters.

@WanderingBullet Really can't stand Martin Lawrence. First Bad Boys was a great film though.

The trailer for '...For Life' looks pretty, well - boring. I like the attempt, but it just doesn't feel like a film that'll fly all that well these days.

@LN78 That's it! Simon Says!

There are plenty of good bits, and if it had stayed a stand alone film with another lead, I certainly would've liked it more.

@RogerRoger Still not seen that one. Live Free... was more than enough.

@KALofKRYPTON I thought he was pretty funny the previous movies. He actually had some of the funniest lines. As for Bad Boys: For Life, my expectations aren't super high but I'll be satisfied if it's anything like 1 or 2.

@Frigate That's a shame! I saw it in a preview screening, and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was honestly a step above most of the superhero movie fare I'd seen, and most certainly Wonder Woman if we're talking DC. I thought Shazam was really well done both in the way he was translated to the big screen as the performances of each of the actors, and I did think he and the characters around him were amusing. I felt it was a movie very confident in it's oddball nature, and justifiably so. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly a fun time.