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#10021 Aptorian

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Posted 06 October 2018 - 10:28 AM

Is it hot Lindsey Lohan or meth Lindsay Lohan?

#10022 Tsundoku

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Posted 06 October 2018 - 10:40 AM

Well it's the most recent thing she's done, so draw your own conclusions.

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#10023 worry

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Posted 06 October 2018 - 07:35 PM

It's not quite the most recent film she's made: https://www.cosmopol...usation-moscow/

On a different note, I watched A Wrinkle In Time which is on Netflix. It was a flop, and I feared it was gonna be The Lovely Bones For Kids, but it was actually pretty good. It wasn't perfect, there's some thin characterization and it tends towards "kids movie" more than YA or even "all ages", but it has some visually wonderful moments that are way outside what we've gotten in the post-Harry Potter glut of young fantasy movies. It's a little simple, in terms of going from A to B to C as it moves along, and it's not particularly scene-for-scene loyal to the book, but I'm starting to think the extreme negative reactions to this came not so much from book pedants but were manufactured for certain reasons.

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 03:33 PM

Yeah, Wrinkle In Time did very little for me (though I got a little emotional at the end) but I didn't like hate it or anything. My 8-year-old daughter loved it, which seems to me to be its ideal target market. My wife disliked it a bit more than I did, but she loves the book, and I have no attachment at all to it (and barely remember reading it almost 30 years ago.)

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#10025 amphibian

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 05:09 PM

Atomic Blonde is a top five action movie of the last fifteen years. Even with the clunky beginning.

I'm actually glad that this wasn't turned into a Black Widow movie and neutered that particular Disney way.

The lesbian romance was refreshing and gave the movie a needed emotional weight.

The action was tip top and any worries I had about the stunt team and camera angles covering up poor work from Theron or the stunt doubles are gone completely.

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 07:46 PM

amphibian, on 08 October 2018 - 05:09 PM, said:

Sounds good I've been wanting to see that for a while. Here's hoping it comes up on Netflix in the UK soon...

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 06:04 AM

Atomic Blonde was great!

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 12:39 PM

Still have not seen it....though that's more on my personal foibles about Theron (who I have heard "diva" stories about from friends in the film industry that make me not want to see her movies) than anything storewise.

I still want a Black Widow movie.

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 02:26 PM

QuickTidal, on 09 October 2018 - 12:39 PM, said:

The best version of Black Widow is the Richard Morgan type - which is extremely unlikely to happen in the Marvel/Disney world.

Therefore, Atomic Blonde is a better film than any Black Widow movie is likely to be.

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 02:42 PM

QuickTidal, on 05 October 2018 - 04:26 PM, said:

WOW

Also, people like Apt who think a long trailer shows too much...beware, this is 5 minutes.

This is probably the best I've seen a DCEU movie look, and probably the closest they've ever gotten to the MCU vibe.

It's so so close to being a good movie that i dread how badly they may have actually fucked it up.
But hey, they pulled off WONDER WOMAN... hope floats.

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#10031 QuickTidal

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 02:45 PM

Abyss, on 09 October 2018 - 02:42 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 October 2018 - 04:26 PM, said:

It's so so close to being a good movie that i dread how badly they may have actually fucked it up.
But hey, they pulled off WONDER WOMAN... hope floats.

I have faith in James Wan. He makes solid movies.

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#10032 Macros

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 06:29 PM

I'd say Amph is probably right on that Atomic Blonde being what a Black Widow movie would be ideally like, but Disney would never do it.

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Posted 10 October 2018 - 11:10 PM

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#10034 worry

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Posted 11 October 2018 - 01:48 AM

That's a pretty good trailer!

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Posted 12 October 2018 - 09:54 PM

amphibian, on 08 October 2018 - 05:09 PM, said:

Atomic Blonde is a top five action movie of the last fifteen years. Even with the clunky beginning.

Raid 1 & 2, John Wick 1 & 2, Chocolate, Ong-Bak (2003, so right at the limit)... gonna have to disagree.

top 10 though.

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#10036 polishgenius

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Posted 13 October 2018 - 08:52 AM

Coco with marshmallows, on 12 October 2018 - 09:54 PM, said:

amphibian, on 08 October 2018 - 05:09 PM, said:

Atomic Blonde is a top five action movie of the last fifteen years. Even with the clunky beginning.

Raid 1 & 2, John Wick 1 & 2, Chocolate, Ong-Bak (2003, so right at the limit)... gonna have to disagree.

top 10 though.

Tbh I'm not entirely convinced by that either, but...

Mad Max: Fury Road, Kick-Ass (if you think of it as an action movie and have good taste and not bad taste like QT), Kingsman, the latest Mission Impossible, fuck it I'm saying Fast and Furious 5 what you gonna do, The Good, The Bad, The Weird...

I do suppose it can depend on how narrowly you define 'action film'. And also how much the illogical, Hollywood-forced ending of Atomic Blonde bothered a person.

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