Topic: The Movie Thread

@MightyDemon82 That is a madness I can get behind! I am occasionally struck with similar maladies and now that you've opened my eyes to the existence of The Showa boxset, of which I was blissfully unaware, odds are I will be struck with the exact same madness in the future. I will, of course, place all blame squarely on you when that happens. It's only fair, after all.

@FuriousMachine I hadn't heard of those, I'll add them to the old letterboxd watchlist, thanks 👍

@FuriousMachine I'll happily take the blame. So long as you end up having hours of fun 😁.

Curious how others feel about this film. I've never been a Superman/DC fan as such so the extra 'heroes' seen in the trailers mean nothing to me and seem like possibly too many characters to explain in one film. The Superdog in a cape screams kids Saturday morning tv rather serious movie so I can't say it has provided any excitement yet.
With that being said I have some faith in James Gunn as a storyteller so will give it a chance.

@BearsEatBeets I've never been a huge Superman fan, but there are plenty of DC properties I've enjoyed a lot (in particular the Giffen/DeMatteis run on "Justice League") so this may be right up my alley.
I think that superheroes are inherently silly (in a good way) and colorful, so I prefer the movies to be the same. I'm not a big fan of "grim-darkening" everything, though some properties/heroes work better in a gritty setting than others (Daredevil, Batman). Superman should be optimistic and fun, in my opinion.

So yeah, looking forward to this, I think Gunn is a very good match here. And for just a second I was a bit sceptical of the inclusion of Krypto the Dog, but then I remember what Gunn did with a talking raccoon, so U'm good

@MightyDemon82 I think that may be taken as almost a given

@AgentCooper I'd love to hear what you think of them if you end up watching them

I've seriously been out of the loop about movies. I had no idea they were doing anything more with Tron so this was a very pleasant surprise.

Felt I had to revert my profile pic back to the original in honour. Fingers crossed in turns out good.

@FuriousMachine yeah to be fair when I first heard about Guardians of the Galaxy containing a Tree man and talking raccoon I thought Marvel were crazy to make a film out of that. That ended up being one of my favourite Marvel films so I'm definitely extending Gunn some slack to convert me on Superman.

@BearsEatBeets still not for me. But that was a better look than the initial trailer which made me think it would be the single most worthless DC movie of all time. The first trailer was abominable.

Good to see the Dry Devil in it, too 😅

(No idea what character the guy in the actual Superman trailer is supposed to be, but it's certainly a powerful haircut)

@Ravix If you're referring to Nathan Fillion's character with the similar haircut to the dude in your screenshot, that would be Guy Gardner, the biggest d-bag the Green Lantern corps ever recruited. I'm stoked to see what Fillion and Gunn will do with that character (who's got absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever).

@BearsEatBeets Never did get around to watch Tron: Legacy... I barely remember the original, so I guess I should schedule them both for an evening soon. As for Tron: Ares, that movie has a Jared Leto sized hurdle I may not be able to clear, but we'll see. He couldn't manage to ruin Villeneuve's Blade Runner sequel, so maybe this one can survive him as well?

@FuriousMachine I know they are not great films but I have a soft spot for them. I'm old enough that the original was a memorable spectacle much like Star Wars for a young me. I'm a sucker for a visually impressive film so l probably enjoyed Legacy more than most. Plus that Daft Punk soundtrack is something special.
I know what you mean about Jared, fingers crossed it ends up being his best work. Having only just found out about it I had to look up who is making it. I've seen nothing from the director and the only thing of note from the writers is one of them wrote that well received Adolescence show so not much to go on.

@FuriousMachine douchey character, douchey haircut, got it 😅 yeah, it looked like he was just walking through a lobby and blasting sh** for the sake of it, tbf. (I'm not going to re-watch the trailer to check of my memory is working, but I feel like that was the clip)

Weird DC cross over, the haircut sporting fellow from the game pic (The Dry Devil, KCD2) is played by Douglas Russell who was in The Batman movie, for a short moment, where he was confronting Bruce Wayne (or Batman) apparently.

@BearsEatBeets Yeah, I think we're probably in the same age range (I passed the half-century mark last year), give or take a few years, so I was also completely absorbed by the original "Tron" when it came out. It fell off my radar as I grew older, for some reason, but my love for sci-fi of its ilk has remained. I will absolutely check out Legacy, after I've re-watched the original with my finest rose-tinted glasses on
I've also heard a lot of positive buzz around "Adolescence", but I've yet to look into what it's about and if it's anything I need to watch.
Just looked up the director of Tron: Ares, and it's a fellow Norwegian! He has two very good Norwegian films on his CV, "Max Manus" (WWII film about a Norwegian resistance fighter) and "Kon Tiki" (about the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl), but his other credits feels... underwhelming. Maybe he should stick to making movies about historical Norwegians? Time will tell, I guess. His involvement didn't move the needle in any meaningful way for me.

@Ravix Yeah, that gels with my memory of the trailer as well. Fun "crossover"

Bit late to say this but Val Kilmer's performance in Batman Forever was one of the defining moments of my childhood. Also loved him in Tombstone. RIP, Val.

I'll have to check out Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang as some people have recommended it, on here.

Hulu dropped a first-look trailer for Predator: Killer of Killers, the upcoming animated anthology movie from Dan Trachtenberg (director of Prey) and I think it looks really good! Excited for this now

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is a classic, but your enjoyment may depend on how well you tolerate Shane Black, as it is a very Shane Black movie.

@FuriousMachine Thanks for the cautionary words. I was also thinking of watching The Doors, where Val plays Jim Morrison, do you know if that's any good? They lauded his performance in it during a recent BBC Radio retrospective.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I never saw it. I've never been a big fan of biopics, as I never feel comfortable that they aren't just telling lies and varnished truths. Also, having never been a big fan of The Doors and, add to that, not a fan of Oliver Stone (though I love his weird sci-fi soap opera "Wild Palms), I never bothered with it. Though, consensus seems to be that it a very good movie and that Kilmer is particularly good in it, so it is probably worth seeing (and I will see it myself at one point, but for the reasons stated above, I haven't gotten around to it yet )