Topic: The Movie Thread

@LN78 I think Sony are very smart in what they’ve done. They’ve protected their rights to Spider-Man while giving the fans what they want- him in the MCU. This allows them to create darker stories which is proven to also be what fans what, from the reaction to Joker, Watchmen etc.

@RogerRoger Dark Phoenix was indeed, just there. It’s possibly the most beige, mediocre movie I’ve watched in a long time. It’s a shame because First Class and Days of Future Past aren’t bad at all.

@RogerRoger Interesting in your thoughts on Batman & Harley Quinn. I'm not a huge fan of it. Not terrible, but also not particularly necessary. It feels like it was written by a committee; specifically the 'Harley Is Our Meal Ticket Now So Whoop-Whoop Let't Throw Something Together Committee'. It very rarely feels like it was written by Bruce Timm, which is ordinarily fine for the DC animated stuff, but using Timm's visual style comes with expectations, and those expectations don't include fan-fic level shipping and a generally weak experience.
You could sub in pretty much any of the TAS episodes and watch something with far more creative grace.

@KALofKRYPTON Is that the one where Harley Quinn has two buttcracks?

@nessisonett Isn't that the Hentai version?

@LN78 Yeah some scenes are gloriously gory, which took me by surprise. Bit wierd they had the twist right at the beginning, I thought it would have lent more mystery to the film. It is up there with Chronicle and Kick Ass as my fave non Marvel/DC superhero films.

@LN78 I don't think so, no. But i will check it out as our tastes are quite similar. Cheers.

@LN78 @RogerRoger I can confirm (because I just looked it up on my phone) that Disney+ does have the animated Marvel’s X-men series, 1992-1997, consisting of 5 total seasons. It looks like season 3 contains the “Dark Phoenix” episodes, if I’m just going by the titles. I’m adding it to my watchlist now on the recommendation. Because... yeah, I think I reported it a few months ago here, but the best thing I can say about the latest movie Dark Phoenix was that I fell asleep during the last half and got some nice rest. When I woke up to see bits of the ending in a half-awake stupor, I had no desire to back it up and watch the hour I missed. The sleep was better. Last Stand was like Gone with the Wind by comparison. And I agree the acting was just awful.

By the way, Disney+ also has animated shows: X-Men Evolution (2000-2003, 4 seasons) and Wolverine and the X-Men (2009, 1 season) for other X-Men content, if you’re curious. If you can recommend either of those I might give them a watch too.

And I can also express my vote of disappointment in Aquaman along with everyone else, but yes, the visuals on display do make it worthwhile in my opinion. At times it looks amazing, so at least there’s that.

I so wanted to like Aquaman like everyone else here but it was just a bit obvious, boring and cliched. Shazam, on the other hand, I really enjoyed. It was just a great, fun popcorn movie with surprising emotional depth.

@RogerRoger
It's a pretty throw away thing. I'm aware of a new standalone HQ cartoon. I'm assuming it's very much in the same vein.

Ah Aquaman.
Pretty entertaining. But I'll not watch it for a second time.
It's too long and feels like three competing takes smashed together rather than a well interwoven narrative.

It can and often does look incredible, but it also occasionally looks really rough.

@RogerRoger @KALofKRYPTON I knew it was that one!

@RogerRoger That's the one.

@nessisonett 😂😂 'We want to be a bit racy but not completely lewd...'

@RogerRoger @LN78 You guys going on about badly dubbed fillms to be shown pre-watershed reminded me of the old Harry Enfield sketch!

@LN78 loved the Adam and Joe show! Don't remember hardly any of it so will search for it later.

@RogerRoger Glad you liked it, I was a bit disgustied at the canned laughter but hey ho.

@RogerRoger The Fast Show is one of those shows that you can put any episode on and find a classic clip. Absolute comedy gold, even now.

Just saw The Hustle on Netflix. It's almost a take for take copy of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which is one of my favourite comedies from back in day. Except not half as funny. That is the second week in a row when I've watched a film and wish i never bothered, which is why i tend not to watch a lot remakes. Expect for this one I did know it was gonna be a blatant ripp off of film I liked so much.

Godzilla King of the Monsters. They have failed to get the right balance in these films. In the first film directed by Gareth Edwards there was not enough Godzilla and too much time spent with mostly boring human characters. This film has loads of awesome monsters and spectacular fights. Some of them can be a bit difficult to make out what is happening with the mist, water, debris and such getting in the way. The last half hour was an immense, rollercoaster assault on the senses, and was fantastic cinema. Unfortunately we still have the boring human spouting exposition scenes, with some really bad dialogue and making some really stupid decisions. Is it too hard to make some interesting characters that you care about? Jurassic Park managed to do it all those years ago and still have exciting dinosaur stuff. Despite this I still enjoyed the film , just hope they can make the humans more interesting in the next film.

Seeing as my foray into gaming after finishing Divinity hasn't gone all that well I thought I'd try some films I have yet to see yet

First up was Jackie Brown

Didn't know anything about it aside from the obvious of it being a Tarantino flick.

I ended up really enjoying it actually.

Not that I haven't enjoyed the few films of his I've seen anyway but honestly I think this might be my joint favourite so far alongside Kill Bill Vol.1 (... Though I haven't watched that since it came out)

Interesting to see that it's an adaptation of a book and seems to be the only film in his repertoire that is...

Solid film still with some good dialogue (Though there was a lot of usage of a certain word that I think most people would find a tad uncomfortable though) and some really great acting (Especially Pam Grier in the title role, she was great from start to finish!)

The other film I saw was The Departed

Uhhhh...

... I'm honestly thinking I must've been watching a different film to everyone else who saw it. Because to me it was a boring, overly long and absolute mess of a film that didn't seem to do anything worthwhile.

I mean... I guess Jack Nicholson was ok? I guess? It was a very typical evil mobster character though, not really ground breaking or all that different.

I've never understood what people like about Matt Damon to be honest though and he was utterly boring as usual here.

And Leo! oh Leo... I honestly preferred you in Blood Diamond (and your hokey South African accent) over this. I don't understand how anyone didn't realise he was the mole with him jittering all over the damn place like a puppy that had yet to be toilet trained... not to mention the fact he dropped out the police academy!

Honestly the worst film I've seen in a while. I found pretty much nothing to like about the film... It was all so... bland.

Hell I don't even remember hearing any music (despite the fact I just watched it last night) aside from the weird pegleg sailor song it boomed out twice that was just so damn jarring.

Definitely the worst Scorsese film I've seen and I have absolutely no idea how it got any awards (even for it's editing) yet alone Best Picture!

Netflix have started adding Studio Ghibli films to the service. There is only a few on there at the moment, but I read somewhere that they will add one a week. Not sure if it will be all of em, but i think there will be 28 of them in the end.

@JohnnyShoulder It's 21 movies in total, seven movies each month starting from February till April.

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