[worry]

I watched Sausage Party cuz it's on Netflix. It sucks. Almost zero laughs. The only element that approaches entertaining is Nick Kroll's Douche character (and you can get similar-but-better on Kroll Show). I had mild expectations and was still disappointed.

[polishgenius]

Logan is self-contained, I haven't seen AoA and I had no trouble at all.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Jesus Logan was good. Best x-man movie for sure, probably best marvel movie, makes the conversation for best super hero movie ever. It's goooooood.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Moonlight is also worth the hype.

[worry]

Went and saw Get Out. Pretty darn good. One of those movies you can't talk about for fear of spoiling things. I will say it plays the horror/thriller stuff straight, and where it's funny it's in a natural way, not a genre spoof. I imagine a lot of people here have Logan as #1 on their in-theater radar, but if you want a good second choice I highly recommend this one.

[amphibian]

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates was actually fun. The pairs of brothers/friends really works and the time the movie spends showing that the prior have more depth than being joke vehicles is well spent.

Hail Caesar! is an odd movie. The Communists are the best part of the movie, especially the boat scene. However, it doesn't quite hang together as something nearly a condemnation of what the studio system was. It ends up being a more acerbic La La Land than anything else. Felt like if a couple of the bigger stars' plot lines interacted a tad bit more, it'd have been a stellar movie.

Point Break the reboot isn't awful. A ton of those stunts are as real as it gets and the story structured to get those stunts kinda works well. What is weak is the fight part to get Utah in the gang, the landslide CGI, and the fact that Pappas is a shithead instead of being an actual co conspirator in the crazy FBI scheme. I've surfed a little, skied/snowboarded a bunch, and climbed a little. Almost every stunt had me clenching my butt with how hard they were to go do in real life. I like it as this story makes more sense, but I do not like it as much as the original Point Break - which is my favorite movie ever.

[Macros]

Saw Loganast night.

Excellent, I haven't seen the latest xmen film or the second Wolverine. But this blows the other out of the water easily.
Patrick Stewart is excellent and this is Hugh Jackman actually acting instead of just flexing and grimacing. There's still plenty of slicey stabby action. A lot more than normal I would say. The kid is pretty cool and does a good job on what must have been a difficult role to coach and explain to someone her age.

It's one of the best superhero movies in that it normalizes it. It doesn't throw in goofy 'banter' mid fights, it doesn't try to tone things to cater to a younger audience as well as older (most marvel films).
It went down the route Hancock should have, man that was a disappointing film after Mr clean smith got his paws into it.

This is not a superhero movie off the Marvel formula wagon, it ticks no boxes and has no Spandex.
If DC are trying to do something different with their universe, something darker and grittier than Marvel's ensemble, this shout he their marker

This post has been edited by Macros: 08 March 2017 - 09:31 AM

[Aptorian]

Just watched the Accountant. The autistic hitman film. It's a peculiar film.

I think the trailers suggested a film that was more clinical and calculating than the film they delivered. More of a serious thriller, than action or drama. In that sense the film is disappointing.

As the plot unfolded and the pieces fell into place I got the feeling that this film might have been the manuscript for a TV-pilot. It's pretty much a by the book set-up for a story of the week show about a good natured but troubled super-autist that helps people and punishes the bad guy, set in some kind of grey area between good and bad.

Despite the rote formula, I found myself quite enjoying the film. The film would had been better served by using a good character actor, but as always Ben Affleck is a charming and likeable character. Terrible at pretending to be emotionless, but the camera loves him. And the manuscript is pretty good, pretty tight, good writing, good casting, great action sequences and fight scenes now that I come to think of it.

It's a just okay film. I hope they make a sequel but there doesn't really feel like there is a need to explore the character further.

[worry]

Apt, on 10 March 2017 - 07:24 PM, said:

but as always Ben Affleck is a charming and likeable character

This explains so much.

[champ]

Whilst watching The Accountant I couldn't help but think it would be cool if it was somehow set in the John Wick world and we'd see a cross over.

I did enjoy the film.

[Tiste Simeon]

Saw X Men Apocalypse tonight. It's was entertaining and Wolverines cameo was suitably violent.

Definitely thought the world was going to end at the close which would lead nicely to Logan but I guess not.

[Mezla PigDog]

It's my birthday and my mum babysat so we could go out for the second time since last May. We were supposed to go to a fancy restaurant in London but I'm so tired the thought of sitting at a table makes me want to die. We had a kebab and saw Logan instead. It was the right choice.

[polishgenius]

champ, on 10 March 2017 - 09:37 PM, said:

Whilst watching The Accountant I couldn't help but think it would be cool if it was somehow set in the John Wick world and we'd see a cross over.

Ha. Having just watched JW: Chapter 2 I want a crossover between John Wick and The Raid. Also could see one with Denzel's Equaliser which in some ways had a similar kind of aesthetic though (1) a bit more horror-based (with Denzel as the monster) and (2) not as good- visually it doesn't compare to John Wick. But in the right hands it could have. Apparently a very crossover-able property, John Wick.



Anyway, cracking film. Nailed the expansion of the world. Great action. Only slightly spoiled by the cinema I was watching in having what sounded like an aircon issue delivering a high-pitched whine into the theater throughout much of the film.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 11 March 2017 - 01:55 AM, said:

Watching Jaws 2 with Jace and loln our asses off. I made a game out of it for him to guess who gets eaten and who doesn't to lighten any scariness he may have felt. It's not scary like one was anyway so I wasn't to worried about that.

Jaws 1 was genuinely scary. I watched it when I was and I had difficulty sleeping that night. The night parts out on the ocean with the full moon and the shark circling the boat was terrifying.


Jaws 2 was very light in comparison. It had become a rather tropey film.


Jaws 3 was an exercise in bad animation and Jaws the Revenge is unspeakable

[worry]

And then there's...

[worry]

Should have bet on it like Biff with the sports almanac.

[polishgenius]

Does this film not look amazing?

[worry]

Cool cool. Didn't think I'd ever hear a worse version of Blue Monday than Orgy's but there you have it.

[QuickTidal]

I’m going to chime in with everyone else and say that LOGAN is one of the (If not THE) BEST superhero movies ever made.

I mean, the success lies in the fact that it’s not just a road movie, or a western, or any of those types of film, but all of them at once. It’s certainly the most story and character driven superhero film yet. It’s easily leaps and bounds better than even the BEST of the Fox X-MEN movies. With the rating, it FINALLY allows Wolverine to be the person he really is, the foul-mouthed, violent guy…with all the attendant blood and swearing involved. I think that’s a big problem with the portrayal of Wolvie to this point in the Fox movies…he’s got claws that he rips people up with….mostly bloodlessly till now. This film allowed that beast out of his cage, and let Hugh Jackman go out on a note that REALLY shows how much he nailed the Wolverine/Logan performance.

I was enthralled from start to finish. The first frame to the last frame, nothing is wasted. It is at once both poetic, and brutal.

Loved it.

[Macros]

I though the Shane scene a bit of a hamfisted set up, but apart from that yes