[Whisperzzzzzzz]

It looks they've taken a lot of cues from the Avengers films (especially quippy one-liners and very brief comedic sections).

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[QuickTidal]

I'm not won over on the CGI for Goldar (or for that matter, the MegaZord) which if you look at screenshots is pretty rank....but overall I think it looks cool and fun.

[QuickTidal]

Okay, I just found something MAJOR out about SPLIT that makes me want to see it.

MAJOR big fuckoff spoilers for the film...seriously, do not read if you plan to see it and want to be surprised.

Spoiler

It's a fucking UNBREAKABLE movie. The main character's story is the building of a new Unbreakable Villain for Bruce Willis character to face off against called "the Horde" (which is Mcavoy in his multiple personality disorder body...one of which is a supernatural beast that is nigh indestructible). The fact that hers kept this under wraps and the movie looks like it's just a taught thriller about a kidnapper with split personalities...is amazing. But I wonder if the fact that most people think it's JUST a thriller and not a shared universe supervillain-origin movie will hinder that...it's a catch-22 really. You don't want people to know it's an UNBREAKABLE spinoff...but you also WANT them to know to give your career the boost it sorely needs after a string of flops.

Consider me WAY more interested in this film now.

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[QuickTidal]

Cheesewiz, on 20 January 2017 - 04:44 PM, said:

Will he be in it?

Spoiler

Yep.

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[worry]

Yeah I noticed. Lots of reviews seem to regard it as a thrilling -- if tasteless -- B-movie. I'm not sure I can get over the tastelessness of that premise, and McAvoy's performance still looks terribly grating to me, from all the preview material, but I might give it a shot if it turns up on Netflix or something.

[Mezla PigDog]

I saw La La Land at baby cinema this morning. Turns out a lot more mums want to see that than showed up for Rogue One. I have no clue what happened or who anyone was.

[Aptorian]

Watched Jack Reacher 2 yesterday.

I think it was a worthy successor to the first film, which I really liked. It has plenty of scenes depicting Reacher as being very clever and very ruthless but the film is definitely not as tight as the first film,

Unfortunately the film is sort of ruined by the babysitting plot. I read the first 3 books in the Reacher series this summer and a part of what I hated about the books (which you really should just avoid) was that A) The Women are constantly in need of Reacher's protection/Damsels in distress-syndrome and B ) The villains have this pathologic need to torture and inflict suffering upon not just their enemies but also random collateral victims, which is a sort of cartoonish, immature way of building a villain and selling the conflict to the reader/viewer.

Jack Reacher 1 didn't have this issue but the second film has and it's honestly pretty tasteless. Why some kind of script doctor didn't modernize this plot for the second film I don't understand.

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[amphibian]

Mezla PigDog, on 26 January 2017 - 06:25 PM, said:

I saw La La Land at baby cinema this morning. Turns out a lot more mums want to see that than showed up for Rogue One. I have no clue what happened or who anyone was.

Because of the moms? Your baby? The movie itself?

[Mezla PigDog]

The first two. I'm hoping I still have the mental capacity to follow a musical when not surrounded by wailing children. I still love the concept of baby cinema though. Just need more movies that do not appeal to the mum demographic.

[Malankazooie]

I remember when me and my friend went and seen South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (an R rated movie). It was a few weeks after the movie's opening and we went to an mid-week afternoon matinee thinking we'd be able to enjoy the movie in a relatively empty theater. Well the theater was indeed empty when we planted out butts in our seats front and center (the perfect seats!). But lo and behold, a woman (must have been doing child day care) enters with no less then five children ages 8 and under. And to fuck it all, she sits RIGHT BEHIND US! Me and my friend move and try to find the next best seats, but the experience was ruined. This woman had no control over these kids. They were leaving their seats, crying and carrying on throughout the whole movie.

From that point on I decided I would control my experience. If I had a similar experience, I would exit and ask the theater for a refund. So far, the only thing I've had to do since then is ask a woman who was checking texts on her iPhone to put it away or I would go get the usher. She turned it off but tried to get her bf involved, be he wasn't having any of it, so good for him.

[Macros]

Why was the woman bringing kids to an R rated movie?

[Aptorian]

The world is a harsh environment. Got to toughen them up by exposing them to gratuitous violence and nudity at a young age while they are still impressionable.

[Malankazooie]

Macros, on 27 January 2017 - 07:32 AM, said:

Why was the woman bringing kids to an R rated movie?

I think she was clueless. My best guess is that because it was a "cartoon" that her kids watched she thought it was ok to take the children to the movie. Because "cartoons" are only for children.

[Traveller]

Macros, on 27 January 2017 - 07:32 AM, said:

Why was the woman bringing kids to an R rated movie?

How else would they be able to sing 'uncle fucker' all the way home in the car?

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[worry]

John Hurt, star of King Ralph and (some might argue) some even better movies like The Elephant Man, Alien, Watership Down, etc., has passed away.

[A Demon Llama!]

Damn, John Hurt passing away is kind of upsetting.

[A Demon Llama!]

Makes me sick to the stomach. And the food aint that bad.

[Malankazooie]

That sucks. I just recently watched bits and pieces of 1984 on the Viceland channel. They were airing the movie throughout the day of Trump's inauguration. I think they were trying to make a statement about where the events of that day could eventually lead us.

Also @A Demon Llama! I see what you did there. Alien is so good and that scene has to be near the top of any "most memorable scene in a movie" lists.

[QuickTidal]

Watched CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE on Saturday.

It's um....not great. It's made a decent critical impression it seemed (which was why I thought I'd give it a go)....but overall I'm not at all sure what kind of movie this wants to be. I THINK it's supposed to be an action comedy...but it gets lost pretty early on in a weird abnormal fantasy world that never really allows it to stand up on its own. I also don't think Kevin Hart's comedy was as on display as it should have been. These films that feature big name stand up comics...are ALWAYS better when they let the comedian themselves pen a lot of the jokes...but that was not the case here...so Hart is kind of lost in a miasma of jokes he'd never tell. I dunno, I was largely disappointed.

[Vengeance]

QuickTidal, on 30 January 2017 - 03:54 PM, said:

Watched CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE on Saturday.

It's um....not great. It's made a decent critical impression it seemed (which was why I thought I'd give it a go)....but overall I'm not at all sure what kind of movie this wants to be. I THINK it's supposed to be an action comedy...but it gets lost pretty early on in a weird abnormal fantasy world that never really allows it to stand up on its own. I also don't think Kevin Hart's comedy was as on display as it should have been. These films that feature big name stand up comics...are ALWAYS better when they let the comedian themselves pen a lot of the jokes...but that was not the case here...so Hart is kind of lost in a miasma of jokes he'd never tell. I dunno, I was largely disappointed.

Yeah I tried to watch it. Couldn't even make it through the movie. We had watched and like Kevin in Get Hard but everything about Central Intelligence just fell flat.