Topic: The Movie Thread

@KALofKRYPTON The cowl does seem a bit low tech to me with the stitching lines being visible.

Someone posted an edited black and white version. Personally, I think that one looks better.

@WanderingBullet I meant more in terms of materials for the suit.

We'll see I suppose.

@KALofKRYPTON Yup, looking forward to see what the rest of the suit looks like.

One of the best younger actors around in a really unique take of the Year One suit whilst staying true to source material and he has the perfect jawline, all wrapped up in a noir coat of paint?

This is going to be wonderful

Just watched The Garden of Words again. I hadn’t seen it since I was an angsty 15 year old and honestly, I think I’ve grown out of it. It’s certainly not Shinkai’s best work and the script just feels a bit off, especially towards the end. It’s such a shame because I used to really love it but the feelings of alienation and angst are a bit hard to swallow now I’m older.

@RogerRoger Works for me!

Though I think I'll have to be the one trying to convince my 12 year old Billie Eilish fan daughter to go see it!

@RogerRoger Excellent stuff, cheers for the tag. About what I was expecting really. I'm planning on taking the kids to watch it at some point next week, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to it. Equal parts dread though.

@RogerRoger Ha! Don't worry about it!

If only that were true!

@RogerRoger well i aint seeing it until next week but it sounds like it's going to please a life long fan like me and that's great, thanks

@DonJorginho Getting a bit carried away aren't we?! 😂

@RogerRoger thanks bro. If I ever get the chance it will be top of the charts.

@JohnnyShoulder Perhaps 😂 I am just happy this is all happening

Well, well, well! Sonic is looking like it's going to do very well financially(£55m domestic opening); and also yet another entry in the entertainment media seemingly taking against a film with all their worth only for ticket buying fans to go completely the other way.

I'm yet to read (not that I've gone looking particularly) a positive review from the usual critic reviews, not even anything in the vein of 'OK for what it is' - just lots of negative talk about the redesign as fanservice (and that somehow being a bad move).

It's quite interesting to see what should be an OK kids film that didn't actually get much press after the redesign getting a critical mauling but still doing really well, while Birds of Prey has had the run of the woke press for weeks but is tanking.
It is apparently a decent film for the most part - but the coverage is almost all extremely politicised with a woke bent seemingly designed to put off men.

So is the Sonic movie out in theaters already?

@Arugula Really!? Had no clue, just shows how much I pay attention to these things. I wanted to see it due to Jim Carrey.

@RogerRoger Thanks for the review, bud. It’s well done, as always. I’m not a Sonic fan, but I do like Jim Carey in small portions. Your report is just about what I thought I was likely to experience with the movie based on the surprisingly decent trailer. Maybe I’ll watch it eventually. (Good to have your presence back in these here parts, by the way. If even only for a brief interlude)

@RogerRoger Honestly, Carrey is my biggest concern about the film. His brand of humor is fine when it suits the material (like The Mask), but his acting and general look are so weirdly different from what one traditionally thinks of as Eggman (yes, let's pick a wire-thin man to play EGGman) that I feel like he'll feel out of place overall.

Stripes (Blu-Ray) - 80's comedey that see's a 20 something slacker played by Bill Murray convince his best friend to join him in signing up for the US Army ('cause hey, it's not like his current life is taking him anywhere), bumbling through boot camp, and saving the day after nearly starting a war with the Soviets.

It's a fun enough time. Some scenes seem misplaced (like when they find themselves air dropped into Central America, which doesn't really fit where they put it, or anywhere, but they wanted to use it anyway), but it otherwise works. Seems to have less frentic energy than comedies that come out nowadays, and quite a bit more nudity (which seems rare these days, even in adult comedies oddly).

@RR529 ah! I loved Stripes! Been a while since I saw it though. Used it watch it along with Spies Like Us.

@KALofKRYPTON, I've never seen that one, but it's one I've been interested in picking up one day.

I actually wanted to get a John Candy film called Summer Rental as well, as I liked what I seen of it on TV, but it's apparently not on Blu-Ray (despite the fact that an HD version of it exists, as that's how I believe it was shown on TV).