[Malankazooie]

Hey guys. We're three weeks away from San Diego Comic Con. Man, last year's was pretty stellar. A lot of cool trailers and announcements came out of it. It's like the E3 event for all things movie and television nerdy entertainment.

So, what do you guys think? What do you think will be announced or teased this year? I definitely think we will see something about the final season of Game of Thrones. I just came across a tweet that indicates Showtime will have a Halo series, so probably see something about that. Certainly something Doctor Who will be released. What about Stranger Things season 3?

What do you guys think, hope (or know) will be announced this year? Lets make a list!

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[quote name='Malankazooie' timestamp='1530242284' post='1337630']I just came across a tweet that indicates Showtime will have a Halo series, so probably see something about that.


It's far too early to see anything for a series that just got announced this week. I mean, they might talk about it, but there'll be nothing new to say between the announcement and comicon.

Interesting that they've gone for it now, though. I feel like it's gonna be a race between them and Amazon to get that or the Culture out first to avoid charges of plaigarism from casual fans of whatever comes out first.




Anyway, we'll see an Aquaman trailer I'd imagine, and I hope DC show something more to give some hope that the rest of the DCEU won't be a mess but that part I'm not expecting. Been some rumours that both Shazam! and Wonder Woman 2 will drop something too, which would obviously make it a huge con for them.

Marvel-wise, we might see something for Captain Marvel.

And we know that there'll be more about Into The Spider-verse coz the last trailer told us so.

Apparently HBO aren't attending the con this year, so no GoT. Makes sense really- there's too long a gap between now and when it's due to come out.


M Night' Shamalyan's Glass movie will be getting a trailer. That just dropped a rather good poster today.

[Macros]

Bill and Ted is on TV

This is excellent hangover viewing

[Coco with marshmallows]

Briar King, on 28 June 2018 - 01:21 AM, said:

Huh I didn’t know that Shane Black was the guy who played Hawkins in Predator.

Yeah, I like to think just because he wanted to be the one to tell the jokes, he demanded the role as part of his package for writing it

[Malankazooie]

Caught It on HBO.

I really enjoyed this movie. I thought the actor (one of those brothers from True Blood, Vikings or other? acting family) did an excellent job as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. One part creepy AF clown / One part full blown nightmare inducing monster. If I was a kid, this movie would have scared the shit out of me. The child actors were great too. Thought they should have given the black kid more screen time though. Same with the chubby kid who figured out what was going on. Instead, too much spent on Bill and his infatuation and grief story about Georgie, and his burgeoning relationship with Beverly.

Cast has been slowly leaking for chapter 2. Might have to go see that one in the theaters.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Scream For Me Sarajevo

Seriously, have a box of tissues at the ready - you'll need them.

For the unfamiliar, it tells the story of Bruce Dickinson and band being smuggled into Sarajevo in 1994 to play a concert for the citizens there, during the siege.

Naturally, there's some very hard hitting footage and stories shared (a lot is done by interviews) but they also recreate the journey 21 years later.

Sad and yet ultimately uplifting film about the power of hope and the human spirit in adversity. Beautiful film.

[Slow Ben]

Wonder Woman. Good, not great.

Gal Gadot and Chris Pine were great, others not so much. I'll never understand why anyone casts Connie Nielson.

The plot was ok, a bit clunky at times, but overall decent.

6 these bracelets can block anything but Chris Pines penis out of 10.

[Aptorian]

Briar King, on 03 July 2018 - 05:43 AM, said:

Most of y’all know I have never really dug the Disney cartoons or CG movies but there were 2 exceptions. The Lion King and The Liitle Mermaid. This looks fantastic to me.

That looks very low buget to me. Like a made for TV childrens story.

Nice of them to post a summary of the whole film as 2 minute traler.

[Tsundoku]

Alternative Goose, on 08 July 2018 - 04:06 AM, said:

Nice of them to post a summary of the whole film as 2 minute trailer.

Yup, no need to see it now.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 03 July 2018 - 05:43 AM, said:

Most of y’all know I have never really dug the Disney cartoons or CG movies but there were 2 exceptions. The Lion King and The Liitle Mermaid. This looks fantastic to me.

This is not the official Disney live action one tho.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 08 July 2018 - 08:32 PM

[QuickTidal]

INDY 5 now pushed back to July 2021, which is a bit sad. To be frank though I'm just glad that David Koepp (who was on board to script INDY 5....but also scripted INDY 4...soooooooo) is now rumoured to be off-board and Jonathan Kasdan (SOLO) is allegedly scripting it instead...and in my eyes, a push like this is usually a writing/scripting thing anyways, so if we have to wait an extra year to allow Kasdan to make a solid script, so be it. Kopek has been attached a while though so I wonder if he and Lucas and Spielberg came to disagreement about the story and he walked? Not sure.

Anyways. An extra year to wait for more Indy, but that's fine. I just want them to knock it out of the park this time and not stumble again.

Oh, and everyone involved has said Mutt Williams (Shia) will not return...so we can treat him like the weird anomaly he is.

EDIT SIDEBAR: I re-watched INDY 4 the other day (curious if it was as bad as I recall). It's not quite as bad as all that in PARTS. The opening is still great, the Nazca plateau section, the school section, and the very end section even though Koepp literally gave Indiana Jones nothing to do in the third act of HIS film (and I like the inter-dimensional aliens)...but the flaws still largely outweigh the good stuff enough to make it a struggle to get through...which makes me sad. Oh, and the Peru temple raid section, while I like it, suffers from the fact that it was shot digitally instead of on celluloid like the rest of the Indy series, so the set BEING a physical set you can tell..it stands out like it's a stage play set in digital high def...it would have benefitted from being a physical set with an overlay of CGI in places to sell it, or simply a much more detailed and crafted set. As it stands it looks really fake. I also think that whole sequence would have benefitted from being shot in the daytime and not night. The Raiders sets largely work because they are mostly daytime sets, even the ones in the darkened temples and such benefit in believability from the help of natural light leaking in. Why Mutt and Indy feel the need to go there at night when it's not a religious site, or a Peruvian antiquities protected one is beyond me. Anyways, not as bad as I recall it being, but nowhere near as good as the previous films.

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Wut

[Mezla PigDog]

I saw Jurassic World 2 last night. I enjoyed it a lot but it also bothered me a lot. They crossed a science line in my mind where the suspension of disbelief became too difficult, ha ha - I realise the ridiculousness of this statement.

Spoiler

I'm sorry but you can't transfuse blood between species. It's unforgivable even though it did lead to the T-Rex cage scene. And the ending - wtf they going to do when Blue starts picking off toddlers?

Well for my second issue I guess the answer is easy - write Jurassic World 3.

Otherwise really loved the vision of the baddy and design of his glamorous evil auction room. He put a lot of effort in.

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Mezla PigDog, on 11 July 2018 - 06:13 AM, said:

I saw Jurassic World 2 last night. I enjoyed it a lot but it also bothered me a lot. They crossed a science line in my mind where the suspension of disbelief became too difficult, ha ha - I realise the ridiculousness of this statement.

Spoiler

I'm sorry but you can't transfuse blood between species. It's unforgivable even though it did lead to the T-Rex cage scene. And the ending - wtf they going to do when Blue starts picking off toddlers?

Well for my second issue I guess the answer is easy - write Jurassic World 3.

Otherwise really loved the vision of the baddy and design of his glamorous evil auction room. He put a lot of effort in.

Spoiler

Thank you. I feel better now. I no longer complain about such things to my friends because I understand it may be annoying but that was ridiculous. Also if you want Blue's blood for DNA I still think they could make a plan, red blood cells don't even have DNA really.

What really got me though is the vet is working for the bad guys to save Blue, she could have just asked them to help her get the blood. They didn't need to sneak around all stealthy.

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Cause, on 11 July 2018 - 11:11 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 11 July 2018 - 06:13 AM, said:

I saw Jurassic World 2 last night. I enjoyed it a lot but it also bothered me a lot. They crossed a science line in my mind where the suspension of disbelief became too difficult, ha ha - I realise the ridiculousness of this statement.

Spoiler

I'm sorry but you can't transfuse blood between species. It's unforgivable even though it did lead to the T-Rex cage scene. And the ending - wtf they going to do when Blue starts picking off toddlers?

Well for my second issue I guess the answer is easy - write Jurassic World 3.

Otherwise really loved the vision of the baddy and design of his glamorous evil auction room. He put a lot of effort in.

Spoiler

Thank you. I feel better now. I no longer complain about such things to my friends because I understand it may be annoying but that was ridiculous. Also if you want Blue's blood for DNA I still think they could make a plan, red blood cells don't even have DNA really.

What really got me though is the vet is working for the bad guys to save Blue, she could have just asked them to help her get the blood. They didn't need to sneak around all stealthy.

Yeah, realistically though those were the only two real issues, everything else was business as usual for a Jurassic film. Like I get what they wanted with that ending, but uh, it's going to lead to instant problems.

But I enjoyed it overall (thanks probably in part to low expectations going in based off early feedback and the scant few reviews I'd heard) and thought they delivered overall. Volcano was still kinda ridiculous but it was actually better done than many volcanoes and it did work fairly well as an ass-pull for getting the rest of the plot in motion.

In general it's hard to see where they will go for JW3 from here (which I'm assuming they intend on making at this point) given the events of this film, but I'm sure they'll work something out.

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Surely the next logical step is Dinosaurs.....IN SPACE

[Tsundoku]

Why not?

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[Coco with marshmallows]

Dr Who did a whole episode about that already

[Macros]

I know it's been in rumoured development he'll etc for years but they've started posting some concept art (admittedly by themselves loosely concept art) of the Metal Gear project.

I would love to see this if they stuck to the Metalhead solid on the PSX (considered by many the original mgs)

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 14 July 2018 - 07:36 PM, said:

I know it's been in rumoured development he'll etc for years but they've started posting some concept art (admittedly by themselves loosely concept art) of the Metal Gear project.

I would love to see this if they stuck to the Metalhead solid on the PSX (considered by many the original mgs)

Oh yeah that game was mint. Like switching your controller to the other port so Mantis couldn't predict your moves, the whole sneaking around in boxes and possibly the comedy video game character of all time (Ninja, obv)

Not sure a film would do it justice.