[Tiste Simeon]

Yes that looks pretty immense

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 17 May 2023 - 04:32 PM, said:

Holy shit! It's like STAR WARS and ELYSIUM had a baby and I'm HERE for it. Wow.

Tiste Simeon, on 17 May 2023 - 04:41 PM, said:

Yes that looks pretty immense

AI and CHILDREN OF MEN come to mind.

To the extent that a trailer is any indication of anything.... yeah, this has potential.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 08 May 2023 - 02:43 PM, said:

So (POLICE STORY 4) FIRST STRIKE is a weird flick...I THINK it was them trying to make Ka-Kui into James Bond instead of just a really good HK cop...it feels super weird as a story and in execution. The whole Ukraine section is dismal, barring the bits where Jackie is fish out of water, and the chase down the hill. The rest of the movie in Australia is better as it doesn't feel as bleak, and features more fights...including the ladder fight which is one of Jackie's most iconic. I can't recall if I saw this one in theatres or not...I MAY have, but I didn't remember it. The plot of stolen nuclear weapons is mostly lame, and the shark is next level ridiculous.

It's not a bad flick, and has some really good stunts and fights in it, and Jackie is great as always...but why this had to be a POLICE STORY movie at all baffles me. Like I get that POLICE STORY 1-3 aren't exactly "connected" either...but they are connected enough and Jackie is not trying to stop anything but largely street level criminals as an HK cop. This one basically is like "What if Ka-Kui was James Bond now?" and I don't think it works too well?

Anyways.

I'll be watching NEW POLICE STORY from 2004 next...I hear it's really good, just in a darker and less campy way as the original flicks and In know Jackie is not reprising Ka-Kui and plays someone else....but stacked cast is stacked, with Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu, Andy On, starring alongside Jackie. And I know that a sequel to this movie with the same cast is what Jackie's shooting next as well (before RUSH HOUR 4 gets off the development hell page...if it ever does, I'm not holding my breath, and I'd rather Jackie make more HK-based content than Hollywood content anyways...the HK movies are always more fulfilling).

It makes a lot more sense if you watch the prequel POLICE ACADEMY films first.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 17 May 2023 - 05:19 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 08 May 2023 - 02:43 PM, said:

So (POLICE STORY 4) FIRST STRIKE is a weird flick...I THINK it was them trying to make Ka-Kui into James Bond instead of just a really good HK cop...it feels super weird as a story and in execution. The whole Ukraine section is dismal, barring the bits where Jackie is fish out of water, and the chase down the hill. The rest of the movie in Australia is better as it doesn't feel as bleak, and features more fights...including the ladder fight which is one of Jackie's most iconic. I can't recall if I saw this one in theatres or not...I MAY have, but I didn't remember it. The plot of stolen nuclear weapons is mostly lame, and the shark is next level ridiculous.

It's not a bad flick, and has some really good stunts and fights in it, and Jackie is great as always...but why this had to be a POLICE STORY movie at all baffles me. Like I get that POLICE STORY 1-3 aren't exactly "connected" either...but they are connected enough and Jackie is not trying to stop anything but largely street level criminals as an HK cop. This one basically is like "What if Ka-Kui was James Bond now?" and I don't think it works too well?

Anyways.

I'll be watching NEW POLICE STORY from 2004 next...I hear it's really good, just in a darker and less campy way as the original flicks and In know Jackie is not reprising Ka-Kui and plays someone else....but stacked cast is stacked, with Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu, Andy On, starring alongside Jackie. And I know that a sequel to this movie with the same cast is what Jackie's shooting next as well (before RUSH HOUR 4 gets off the development hell page...if it ever does, I'm not holding my breath, and I'd rather Jackie make more HK-based content than Hollywood content anyways...the HK movies are always more fulfilling).

It makes a lot more sense if you watch the prequel POLICE ACADEMY films first.

How dare you sir.

[QuickTidal]

Huh, Kitano has made a film about the Honno-Ji incident! Bro...he wants to be like his inspiration, Akira Kuroswawa and I'm here for it....it also appears that Kitano is actually playing the Oda Nobunaga role himself! Amaze.

[QuickTidal]

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Donnie Yen announced IP MAN 5 at Cannes...which is funny cause

Spoiler

he dies in 4 from cancer as he did in life.

So I assume this will cover the years-long time jump between the 3rd and 4th movies and not be a continuation of 4.

Also...seeing American people on reddit fall all over themselves to shout these flicks down as CCP propaganda films unironically while Hollywood pumps out tonnes of American Military RaRa movies every year will never cease to astound me. Imagine taking your own country's propaganda films as "normal" and anything that looks like that from other countries as the only evil one.

Like....LOL

Oh well.

I don't really care, I just like watching Donnie Yen kick ass...and I only JUST watched 1-4 for there first time in the last few weeks.

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[Primateus]

QuickTidal, on 17 May 2023 - 05:20 PM, said:

Abyss, on 17 May 2023 - 05:19 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 08 May 2023 - 02:43 PM, said:

So (POLICE STORY 4) FIRST STRIKE is a weird flick...I THINK it was them trying to make Ka-Kui into James Bond instead of just a really good HK cop...it feels super weird as a story and in execution. The whole Ukraine section is dismal, barring the bits where Jackie is fish out of water, and the chase down the hill. The rest of the movie in Australia is better as it doesn't feel as bleak, and features more fights...including the ladder fight which is one of Jackie's most iconic. I can't recall if I saw this one in theatres or not...I MAY have, but I didn't remember it. The plot of stolen nuclear weapons is mostly lame, and the shark is next level ridiculous.

It's not a bad flick, and has some really good stunts and fights in it, and Jackie is great as always...but why this had to be a POLICE STORY movie at all baffles me. Like I get that POLICE STORY 1-3 aren't exactly "connected" either...but they are connected enough and Jackie is not trying to stop anything but largely street level criminals as an HK cop. This one basically is like "What if Ka-Kui was James Bond now?" and I don't think it works too well?

Anyways.

I'll be watching NEW POLICE STORY from 2004 next...I hear it's really good, just in a darker and less campy way as the original flicks and In know Jackie is not reprising Ka-Kui and plays someone else....but stacked cast is stacked, with Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu, Andy On, starring alongside Jackie. And I know that a sequel to this movie with the same cast is what Jackie's shooting next as well (before RUSH HOUR 4 gets off the development hell page...if it ever does, I'm not holding my breath, and I'd rather Jackie make more HK-based content than Hollywood content anyways...the HK movies are always more fulfilling).

It makes a lot more sense if you watch the prequel POLICE ACADEMY films first.

How dare you sir.

Are you speaking ill of a classic, sir?

[Tsundoku]

This looks quite batshit.



Now, the question is: batshit FUN or just batshit SHIT?

Did chuckle at the choice of song though.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 21 May 2023 - 04:11 AM

[worry]

Dungeons & Dragons -- Pretty good. I didn't love it, but I liked it, which is maybe what it was going for. Modest goals of being pretty amusing that it met with flying colors. Lots of personality! In contrast...

The Super Mario Bros. Movie -- Mostly kinda bad? I dunno, rather disappointing. Jack Black was good as Bowser, the little blue star kid was a cute enough running gag, it's visually everything you'd want, but the writing in this was totally inert. Obviously tons of fan service, some of it quite fun, a lot of it just mushed in there. I will say Chris Pratt did fine as Mario, and in a better movie people mighta had to eat some crow, but it's not exactly the kind of script where anybody had much to say or do of note (again, aside from Bowser and maybe his Magikoopa lackey, who is played by old pro Kevin Michael Richardson). As a kid I probably would have loved this, not gonna lie, but it's not operating on more than one layer for pretty much its whole run. It's all bullet points (or bullet bill points).

[worry]

Tsundoku, on 21 May 2023 - 04:11 AM, said:

This looks quite batshit.

https://www.youtube....h?v=RMINHy1KwCY

Now, the question is: batshit FUN or just batshit SHIT?

Did chuckle at the choice of song though.

I knew The Meg was gonna be underwhelming, and I watched it anyway because it has a great big giant shark in it. And I'm gonna do the same with The Meg 2.

[Macros]

Inspired track for the trailer though

[Mezla PigDog]

I enjoyed that Meg 2 trailer. Got a feeling I've just seen all of the good bits of the movie though. If there was a gargantuan prehistoric shark loose it would be an absolute lottery who would survive being in the water at the same time it was on a rampage. But somehow Jason Statham on a jet ski will sort it all out.

[Cause]

Fast x: ends on a to be continued which is frustrating

Great modern fast and furious movie in that it’s an entertaining high action physics defying action flick. The rock doesn’t punch a torpedo in this one. this one has moments even more ridiculous. Multiple times per action scene my sense of disbelief was tested and in at least one I burst out laughing but it’s high octane fun.

They maybe try too hard in recruiting absolutely every fast and furious star ever though.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

We saw The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at the weekend.

It's good, if partially uplifting and partially very sad. It's definitely a "take your brain out of gear and let it be" sort of story. Man walks the length of England to try and give an old friend hope to survive cancer, on way starts to deal with some very sad life events and begin the process of healing his marriage.

The snobby Guardian reviewer had a bit of a moan about the idea of a man walking all that way without "proper walking boots" - I feel like they rather missed the point. Jim Broadbent is brilliant in it, and Penelope Wilton and he are very believable and affecting together.

[Mezla PigDog]

The Guardian has the worst movie reviewers. I think they select people who are incapable of laughing at themselves or feeling joy.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Mezla PigDog, on 22 May 2023 - 08:19 PM, said:

The Guardian has the worst movie reviewers. I think they select people who are incapable of laughing at themselves or feeling joy.

Yup. They seem to be employed to sneer at anything that isn't delivered in florid Shakespeare and enjoyed by "the masses".

[QuickTidal]

Mezla PigDog, on 22 May 2023 - 08:19 PM, said:

The Guardian has the worst movie reviewers. I think they select people who are incapable of laughing at themselves or feeling joy.

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 23 May 2023 - 07:54 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 22 May 2023 - 08:19 PM, said:

The Guardian has the worst movie reviewers. I think they select people who are incapable of laughing at themselves or feeling joy.

Yup. They seem to be employed to sneer at anything that isn't delivered in florid Shakespeare and enjoyed by "the masses".

I maintain that critics who do that for an actual job, are straight up insufferable as a result of basically seeing "every" movie and becoming jaded little shadows of themselves unable to enjoy certain movies...so they need something to be weird, or perfect to stand out to them and get a good grade.

Being a critic must be miserable.

It's also why there is frequently (and a lot more of late) a large gulf between Critics and Audiences.

[Abyss]

worry, on 21 May 2023 - 04:33 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 21 May 2023 - 04:11 AM, said:

This looks quite batshit.

https://www.youtube....h?v=RMINHy1KwCY

Now, the question is: batshit FUN or just batshit SHIT?

Did chuckle at the choice of song though.

I knew The Meg was gonna be underwhelming, and I watched it anyway because it has a great big giant shark in it. And I'm gonna do the same with The Meg 2.

Macros, on 21 May 2023 - 05:14 AM, said:

Inspired track for the trailer though

Mezla PigDog, on 21 May 2023 - 09:42 AM, said:

I enjoyed that Meg 2 trailer. Got a feeling I've just seen all of the good bits of the movie though. If there was a gargantuan prehistoric shark loose it would be an absolute lottery who would survive being in the water at the same time it was on a rampage. But somehow Jason Statham on a jet ski will sort it all out.

Meg was stupid giant shark movie fun.
I am there for more of it.

I'm even a little impressed that they preserved a few shreds of the books, tho it looks like they're winding bks 2 and 3 together. I don't care, it's Statham on a jetski with a spear vs a giant shark. Sold, on the biggest fncking screen i can get to.

[QuickTidal]

So we watched the 2020 live action MULAN.

I'd avoided it when it came out as it sounded like people didn''t like the changes, and many people called it boring...and there was the China-specific political issue as well...we just didn't bother for so long.

But the other day I re-watched one of my fave American-Made Wuxia/Xanxia movies, FORBIDDEN KINGDOM (still awesome BTW), and it made me want to finally give MULAN a go, so the wife and I sa down to it.

Now, I have NEVER seen the animated one. It's one of the only Disney 2D animated movies I've not seen (the other being HERCULES)...so I did not come into this film with any story, plot or character baggage.

We liked it. A thought it was quite good. I found it to be a pretty decent Wuxia movie. Plus Liu Yufei being the lead, and Jet Li being the Emperor gave me a movie link to FORBIDDEN KINGDOM which they were both in, and then I got Donnie Yen, a 'never-aging' Gong Li (who can still steal my heart at like 57 years old) and Jason Scott Lee as well! I fail to see the problem.

Anyways yeah. Great fun, and everyone was really good in it. Top tier Disney Live Action remake....but again, that may be because I've never seen the animated one so I'd have no knowledge of character or plot changes....

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 23 May 2023 - 05:28 PM

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 23 May 2023 - 05:26 PM, said:

So we watched the 2020 live action MULAN.

I'd avoided it when it came out as it sounded like people didn''t like the changes, and many people called it boring...and there was the China-specific political issue as well...we just didn't bother for so long.

But the other day I re-watched one of my fave American-Made Wuxia/Xanxia movies, FORBIDDEN KINGDOM (still awesome BTW), and it made me want to finally give MULAN a go, so the wife and I sa down to it.

Now, I have NEVER seen the animated one. It's one of the only Disney 2D animated movies I've not seen (the other being HERCULES)...so I did not come into this film with any story, plot or character baggage.

We liked it. A thought it was quite good. I found it to be a pretty decent Wuxia movie. Plus Liu Yufei being the lead, and Jet Li being the Emperor gave me a movie link to FORBIDDEN KINGDOM which they were both in, and then I got Donnie Yen, a 'never-aging' Gong Li (who can still steal my heart at like 57 years old) and Jason Scott Lee as well! I fail to see the problem.

Anyways yeah. Great fun, and everyone was really good in it. Top tier Disney Live Action remake....but again, that may be because I've never seen the animated one so I'd have no knowledge of character or plot changes....

I haven't seen the live version. My very loose understanding of the issues w it are the loss of the cute sidekick dragon, that it otherwise did nothing new w the story but just live-action'd most of the animated version, and that there are always loud haters hating on things that aren't exactly the way they falsely remember them from their childhood.