[Aptorian]

QuickTidal, on 02 November 2016 - 03:25 PM, said:

Sooo....xXX: Return of Xander Cage has a trailer...

Looks fun....and then I notice not only is Donnie fucking Yen in it, but Tony Jaa as well....and all of the sudden I'm in like flynn!

This trailer struck me as being XXX: Fast and Furious.

[QuickTidal]

Apt, on 02 November 2016 - 04:17 PM, said:

This trailer struck me as being XXX: Fast and Furious.

Which, at this point let's not mince words...it pretty much is. I suspect the next one will be Vin and the people from this on a team doing the same stuff.

[Slow Ben]

Mezla PigDog, on 28 October 2016 - 09:27 PM, said:

Overboard is on tv later. I'm recording it for next week. Don't ask me to choose between that, Bird On A Wire and Private Benjamin. Masterpieces one and all.

Overboard>Bird On A Wire>Private Benjamin.

[Malankazooie]

Slow Ben, on 03 November 2016 - 02:15 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 28 October 2016 - 09:27 PM, said:

Overboard is on tv later. I'm recording it for next week. Don't ask me to choose between that, Bird On A Wire and Private Benjamin. Masterpieces one and all.

Overboard>Bird On A Wire>Private Benjamin.

Wildcats>Private Benjamin>Overboard>Bird On A Wire

[Slow Ben]

Well, yeah.

[Aptorian]

This is looking pretty good.

[QuickTidal]

Apt, on 03 November 2016 - 08:38 AM, said:

This is looking pretty good.

Wow! Looks fantastic!

EDIT: Also, can we comment on the brilliance of using Born Slippy for the first half of the trailer to welcome us back...and then switching to the much more current Wolf Alice track Silk for the second half? Brilliant.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 03 November 2016 - 01:42 PM

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

'Memberberries, one and all.

[Aptorian]

You made me go and Google Memberberries. I am now thoroughly confused and also realize that it's been a very long time since I followed South park regularly.

[worry]

Don't worry, it's still 1/3 funny, 1/3 scatological, 1/3 atrocious, smug libertarian commentary. The only difference is season-plus-length story lines and continuity the past few years.

[Macros]

Just watch this season.


member the eighties?
Oh I member!

[QuickTidal]

Finally got around to seeing THE REVENANT, and my gods...that's easily Inarritu's best film to date, barnone. Incredible!

Where his singular follow-shot direction annoyed me in BIRDMAN (a movie I hate to my core), here it works to a level of perfection that impressed me throughout. I especially liked it when you followed around an aimed gun in a 360 from the person holding it to the person it was aimed at and back again...

I am glad to know that BIRDMAN was a mere hiccup in the range of his films that I have enjoyed.

But yeah, he went all out with REVENANT. And Leo DESERVED that Oscar, no question.

[Aptorian]

How the hell can you not like Birdman? It's one of the best acted and best filmed movies I have ever seen. That improve introduction between Michael Keaton and Edward Norton is one of the best dynamic acting exchanges I can recall watching.

[QuickTidal]

Apt, on 07 November 2016 - 01:41 PM, said:

How the hell can you not like Birdman? It's one of the best acted and best filmed movies I have ever seen. That improve introduction between Michael Keaton and Edward Norton is one of the best dynamic acting exchanges I can recall watching.

The ONLY thing I'll give it is the acting. The individual performances are great.

The rest of it is a train wreck, score, plot, editing (or lack thereof), assembly, cinematography, dialogue...it's a goddamned abomination.

And yes, I am well aware I'm in a very small minority with that opinion as most people enjoyed it.

I have a very short list of films I feel utterly annoyed at having ever had to sit through and waste my time...BIRDMAN is on that list.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I watched dr strange, it was not bad. Nothing groundbreaking from the marvel formula, but worth watching.

[polishgenius]

I liked both Birdman and The Revenant, didn't LOVE either, but I have more respect for Birdman in a lot of ways because it actually tried to do something new and interesting whereas with Revenant Inarritu claimed he was doing something new and interesting and groundbreaking but really he was making a technically and visually marvelous but narratively extremely conventional revenger.

I think I've said this before but it reminded me of Valhalla Rising with less balls. Also of Apocalypto in many ways.

[QuickTidal]

Luc Besson's new one VALERIAN & THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS.

Looks great, but then I love Besson's sci-fi, and the Moebius future look.

[Primateus]

QuickTidal, on 10 November 2016 - 03:22 PM, said:

Luc Besson's new one VALERIAN & THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS.

Looks great, but then I love Besson's sci-fi, and the Moebius future look.

Yes please! Oh please yes! I've been looking forward to this and it looks pretty damn awesome!

I read the bindings off all the school valerian comicbooks back in the day! Again and again. Now we just need some sort of Yoko Tsuno movie or series with the Vineans.

This post has been edited by Primateus: 10 November 2016 - 03:50 PM

[Aptorian]

Shit that film looks expensive.

I am getting a confused mix of Fifth Element and Jupiter Ascending. I hope this is more Bruce Willis and Mila Jovowich and less Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum.

[Aptorian]

Just watched Suicide Squad.

This film was actually much better than I expected. From all the criticism I'd gleaned while trying to avoid spoilers, I thought the plot would make no sense. It does. It's actually a pretty okay premise for a first film.

What hurts the film more than anything I think, is the dialogue and character writing. So much of the film is carried by the characters and their actions and there's a ton of bad dialogue in this film.

Take the Joker for example. I actually think his design and the scenes he appear in are fine. But the stuff he says is not scary, nor crazy, it's just run of the mill gangster bad guy stuff. Alternatively though, I love what they've done with the relationship between Harley and Joker. It's actually pretty romantic.

But there's so much bad character interaction in this film.