[polishgenius]

Werthead, on 06 October 2017 - 09:50 PM, said:

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But maybe Cameron will surprise us?

I wouldn't bet against Cameron. Every time people have said "This is a stupid idea, this will flop, who will pay to watch this?" he's then released the highest-grossing movie of all time (or almost). He did it with T2, Titanic and Avatar. He's got to have a fumble at some point and these four movies (collectively costing over $1 billion!) may be it, but I wonder if he will do something that will blow us away.

Yeah, but highest grossing they may have been, the only really good movie out of those three was T2 (which of course is really good. Titanic is... well, Titanic, it's fine, and Avatar is terrible on nearly every level.

[worry]

In the wake of Devin Faraci (the second time, w/ Fantastic Fest), Harry Knowles, and most notably now Harvey Weinstein, another movie-centric media dork is exposed as a sleazeball: the Honest Trailers creator Andy Signore.
https://www.avclub.c...of-s-1819233301

I am neutral on these videos (I know people like them, they're not really my thing, but I've laughed at a few), and it sucks that all these creeps are able to victimize people for so long, but I'm still glad they're being confronted and I hope every last one of them gets exposed.

[Macros]

WinterPhoenix, on 06 October 2017 - 08:49 PM, said:

Macros, on 06 October 2017 - 11:08 AM, said:

Don't you dare bad mouth one of the Ryans!

Don't even get me started on Reynolds...

you are no longer my fellow dee jay

[Aptorian]

Watched blade runner 2 earlier. Liked it a lot. I thought the film sort of lost the plot during the third act but it's a good film.

For those like me, who didn't like the original, I can recommend the new one.

The film is probably 30 minutes too long but cool shit happens constantly and the characters are great. Normally I am not fond of Ryan Gosling but he suits the role very well.

[worry]

Gosling is the best Ryan by a mile.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I saw Bladerunner 2049 last night, and it is a masterpiece. Visually stunning, acoustically enthralling, and plot-tedly with few flaws. I don't think it was too long — despite its length, it was tight and dense.

It's better than Bladerunner.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 08 October 2017 - 11:52 AM

[worry]

I watched Baby Driver. Edgar Wright's the man, generally, but I was a little skeptical of this one given the premise...I don't care about cars at all and think Fast & Furious fans should be clubbed like baby seals (w/ waivers granted for my Malazan board compatriots, of course)...but this movie was rad. The chases are all quite good, Ansel Elgort is super as Baby, the writing, direction, and performances are really good generally (a little information goes a long way in this one), and it has a comic-book-come-to-life feel that a lot of actual comic book movies fail to pull off.

[worry]

Watched The Meyerowitz Stories on Netflix. In many ways, it's typical Noah Baumbach... dark comedy about hoity-toity New York artists with an aloof father (Dustin Hoffman) and fractured family dynamics. But this one I found way more affectionate than caustic in its humor. It kinda halves the difference between The Squid & the Whale and like, The Royal Tenenbaums. It's very funny from start to finish, and the emotions -- while often funny and occasionally silly -- still play true to the characters and are affecting.

The most interesting thing about it, perhaps, is that it stars both Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler -- two dudes with roots in sketch comedy, who went on to make successful bizarro high concept comedies and then both went awry on that track in big ways. But who've also shown they have crazy solid acting chops when given the material. Stiller had a small, funny role in Happy Gilmore, but they've never really done anything big together, and I always wondered what it would be like. One does the rage-filled manchild thing and the other does the anxiety/rage-filled joyless adult thing (on top of the silly sketch characters), and in a broad comedy I think it might be a disaster. But in this one, they both do some of their finest dramatic work...even though they both play to type. Which they've both done before, but together it's actually really great. The cast is stacked, too, and everyone shines in big and small parts alike. The actor who plays their sister (Elizabeth Marvel) has a pretty hefty imdb though I didn't recognize her at all, but she's great too. Anyway, I thought it was great, and I think even if you found Baumbach's earlier things too off-putting, you still might like this one.

[Andorion]

Finally watched John Wick. So very entertaining and yet so very sad. Also Theon was still Theon.

[worry]

So, a while back the director said he was shooting The New Mutants to be a horror movie, and it looks like he wasn't kidding.



The trailer leans on that maybe a little too heavy, I dunno -- and it has yet another godawful moody cover song -- but it's still a great premise for the story imo. It could be a disaster -- horror movies in general are more often than not -- but I would love if it worked.

[Abyss]

I want this to be good, but suspect it's going to be a generic teen horror thing with the mutant parts thrown in to no particular effect or reason.

[Tiste Simeon]

Finally watched the Jordan Peele film "Get Out" and what a ride that was. Sheesh, intense and bleak and also so freaking good!

[worry]

Yah, Get Out is really top notch.

[Mezla PigDog]

I had a long plane journey this week so watched Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 and Life. I liked all of them but I'm not sure how much was just gratitude to be able to sit and watch movies for hours. Life annoyed me with the biosafety idiocy but they had made it just sensible enough not to get angry - could see the ending coming a mile off. Could not see the ending of Guardians though because I mistimed it and had to miss the last 10mins because we were landing. Gah! And Wonder Woman was better than expected but I wish she hadn't humped Chris Pine - she's too hot for mere mortal men.

[Macros]

Just saw Thor Ragnorok

The whole visuals, soundtrack, theme whatever all blended together perfectly.

On the MCU scale. I'd say the funniest film overall
Favourite solo
Still second to GotG one


That is all

[Cause]

Macros, on 28 October 2017 - 09:37 PM, said:

Just saw Thor Ragnorok

The whole visuals, soundtrack, theme whatever all blended together perfectly.

On the MCU scale. I'd say the funniest film overall
Favourite solo
Still second to GotG one


That is all

I didn't really enjoy it. I think a huge part of why was the humor. Some of the best jokes were in the trailer and the rest of the humor to me seemed off. Also not sure if I'm a big fan of the plots backstory.

[amphibian]

That's more of a good argument for avoiding trailers than the movie falling flat.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 30 October 2017 - 01:10 PM, said:

That's more of a good argument for avoiding trailers than the movie falling flat.

No it's not. If ones personal opinion is that all the best jokes are in the trailer, then the marketing team did its job too well, and the movie DID fall flat.

In Cause's case, if all the best jokes were in the trailer...then even if he hadn't seen any trailers, there still would have only been 4-5 jokes in the movie that impressed him/made him laugh.

Not everyone finds the same humour funny. Movies that niche their humour often fall flat for some while others think it's hilarious.

[Macros]

I tried to avoid the trailers, having watched them all now, some of the best scenes were shown for sure.

Question

Spoiler

Goldblums tower, you see them building a face of Hulk, the whole thing is sort of a mount Rushmore of past champions, is one of them thanos or was my quick glimpse misinterpreted?

In other news

Please no

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 30 October 2017 - 02:07 PM, said:

Please no

I'd be interested to see what a modern day Young Guns film would look like...it could be awful, but we've not had a solid Western in a while. The others don't need reboots at all, I agree.