[Andorion]

Saw Godzilla
Absolutely, unapologetically loved it.

This was a superb monster movie - excellent effects and visuals, great soundtrack and lots of lovely monster on monster combat.

[Traveller]

Andorion, on 01 June 2019 - 02:49 PM, said:

Saw Godzilla
Absolutely, unapologetically loved it.

This was a superb monster movie - excellent effects and visuals, great soundtrack and lots of lovely monster on monster combat.

That bit when Ghidora

Spoiler

charged up on electricity, then did that flare..!

[Andorion]

Traveller, on 01 June 2019 - 03:55 PM, said:

Andorion, on 01 June 2019 - 02:49 PM, said:

Saw Godzilla
Absolutely, unapologetically loved it.

This was a superb monster movie - excellent effects and visuals, great soundtrack and lots of lovely monster on monster combat.

That bit when Ghidora

Spoiler

charged up on electricity, then did that flare..!

Yeah that bit was absolutely awesome!
My other favourite moments were:

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Mothra unfurling her wings to reveal her full glory.

Mothra stabbing Rodan
All the wires and posts melting as Godzilla charged up his nuclear fire
And Godzilla vaporizing Ghidora's head at the end. Really drove home his victory.

[polishgenius]

Tsundoku, on 01 June 2019 - 09:48 AM, said:

Double post.

Robert Pattinson will be "The Batman".

What.

The.

Actual.

Fuck?

Good actor. Good choice.

[Malankazooie]

To bring in the Twilight fans, the Batsuit will have sparkly nipples.

[QuickTidal]

polishgenius, on 01 June 2019 - 04:41 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 01 June 2019 - 09:48 AM, said:

Double post.

Robert Pattinson will be "The Batman".

What.

The.

Actual.

Fuck?

Good actor. Good choice.

100% agreed. Too many people look at Pattinson and just see that Twilight Vampire kid....meanwhile he's been in a lot of other stuff and REALLY has some acting chops.

He's also a better choice than the other main contender Nicholas Hoult....who I like but doesn't have the range to be Bruce.

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In other news, the ENTIRE plot of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE leaked the other day due to a preview/poll screening.

There are some things I like, some things I don't, and I still want to see it...so there is that.

[Abyss]

Malankazooie, on 01 June 2019 - 05:24 PM, said:

To bring in the Twilight fans, the Batsuit will have sparkly nipples.

It's the latest trend in superhero wear.

QuickTidal, on 03 June 2019 - 05:01 PM, said:

...In other news, the ENTIRE plot of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE leaked the other day due to a preview/poll screening.

There are some things I like, some things I don't, and I still want to see it...so there is that.

They had me at Linda Hamilton with a rocket launcher.

[Malankazooie]

Watched Rogue One: A Star Wars Story for the first time.

Enjoyed it well enough, but lets not kid ourselves and put down the pom-pom cheering - Star Wars is always the best ever - mentality. Rogue One was a paint by the numbers movie with love letter moments to long time fans interspersed throughout. Which is fine, but don't go in thinking it's offering anything revelatory. It's just a 'leave your brain in the lobby, and munch on popcorn fun kind of movie'. So, basically for booger eaters (sorry had to get that zing in there )

I will say I was sort of taken aback by the video game cgi Peter Cushing. Those eye movements were unnatural AF. The young Carrie Fisher cgi was very brief and not much emoting, so I could be sold on that. And Forest Whitaker was a throw away. Could have plugged in any lesser known actor for as much impact the character had. Waste of talent.

I think to continue pulling on the teat of this cash cow and and thus keeping the booger eaters happy, these guys have an idea that should be explored. I would like to know about indepedent contractors who were installing toilets on the Death Star when it was destroyed. What are their stories? So much fertile material there to explore.

[worry]

I'd consider The Labyrinth a must-watch, even though I slightly prefer TDC. It's a different tone mostly (like, it's definitely funnier than TDC, and it's a musical), but it's got a lot of the same fully-realized-fantasy-world magic to it. They both feel like one-of-a-kind movies.

[Mezla PigDog]

I've got a VHS box set of Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. Both classics. Labyrinth isn't as creepy as The Dark Crystal and Jennifer Connolly's character is pretty annoying but it's still awesome. I'm not sure it will stand up if your first watch of it is as an grown up though. Dance magic dance.

[QuickTidal]

Lackluster Bachelorette, on 04 June 2019 - 03:32 AM, said:

I’ve been told I should check out that Bowie film I talked about the other day. Thoughts? Is it a much watch like Crystal was?

LABYRINTH, or alternate title DAVID BOWIE'S PACKAGE IN THE FRAME CONSTANTLY; YOU CAN'T UNSEE THIS is 100% excellent, watchable, re-watchable, and probably the finest fantasy thing that Henson was ever involved it. It's one of only four fantasy movies the 80's produced that really are worth your time (the others are LEGEND, WILLOW, and THE DARK CRYSTAL), and I have never tired of watching it. I have a stuffed Ludo that my daughter has inherited/stolen from me that she sleeps with as one of her main stuffed animals (the other is Peppa Pig).

worry, on 04 June 2019 - 04:13 AM, said:

I'd consider The Labyrinth a must-watch, even though I slightly prefer TDC. It's a different tone mostly (like, it's definitely funnier than TDC, and it's a musical), but it's got a lot of the same fully-realized-fantasy-world magic to it. They both feel like one-of-a-kind movies.

Agreed. These two movies were both the brainchild of Jim Hensons's puppetry magic, and Brian Froud's fairytale designs. If someone told me the world where the Dark Crystal happens is the same as the one in which LABYRINTH happens, just on different continents, I would not be remotely surprised.

Mezla PigDog, on 04 June 2019 - 06:04 AM, said:

Labyrinth isn't as creepy as The Dark Crystal and Jennifer Connolly's character is pretty annoying but it's still awesome.

Oi! Jennifer Connolly in LABYRINTH is like the entirety of my childhood crush world. As a fantasy fan since my younger years, she was (kind of still is) the full-on embodiment of the "type" of girl I was always into. The Dreamy, wishy, not afraid to be silly and immature girl. My wife is 100% like this, so it worked out.

Mezla PigDog, on 04 June 2019 - 06:04 AM, said:

Dance magic dance.

Yes, if nothing else, LABYRINTH gave us the best David Bowie Pop Fantasy song ever.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 04 June 2019 - 01:08 PM, said:

Lackluster Bachelorette, on 04 June 2019 - 03:32 AM, said:

I've been told I should check out that Bowie film I talked about the other day. Thoughts? Is it a much watch like Crystal was?

LABYRINTH, or alternate title DAVID BOWIE'S PACKAGE IN THE FRAME CONSTANTLY; YOU CAN'T UNSEE THIS is 100% excellent, watchable, re-watchable, and probably the finest fantasy thing that Henson was ever involved it. It's one of only four fantasy movies the 80's produced that really are worth your time (the others are LEGEND, WILLOW, and THE DARK CRYSTAL), and I have never tired of watching it.

You missed NEVERENDING STORY, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, both CONANs (yes, both), THE LAST UNICORN, BARON MUNCHAUSEN, and yes, i'm throwing in KRULL, THE SWORD AND THE SORCEROR and THE BEASTMASTER. Come at me, heathen.

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I have a stuffed Ludo that my daughter has inherited/stolen from me that she sleeps with as one of her main stuffed animals (the other is Peppa Pig).

You didn't do her any favours when you let her take your Peppa doll.

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worry, on 04 June 2019 - 04:13 AM, said:

I'd consider The Labyrinth a must-watch, even though I slightly prefer TDC. It's a different tone mostly (like, it's definitely funnier than TDC, and it's a musical), but it's got a lot of the same fully-realized-fantasy-world magic to it. They both feel like one-of-a-kind movies.

Agreed. These two movies were both the brainchild of Jim Hensons's puppetry magic, and Brian Froud's fairytale designs. If someone told me the world where the Dark Crystal happens is the same as the one in which LABYRINTH happens, just on different continents, I would not be remotely surprised.

Agreed, utterly worth the eyetime. With a little allowance for the time they were made, they're fairly timeless.

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Mezla PigDog, on 04 June 2019 - 06:04 AM, said:

Labyrinth isn't as creepy as The Dark Crystal and Jennifer Connolly's character is pretty annoying but it's still awesome.

Oi! Jennifer Connolly in LABYRINTH is like the entirety of my childhood crush world. As a fantasy fan since my younger years, she was (kind of still is) the full-on embodiment of the "type" of girl I was always into. The Dreamy, wishy, not afraid to be silly and immature girl. My wife is 100% like this, so it worked out.

Mia Sara. Legend. Both her 'looks'. Don't get me started on how that affected my dating life.

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Mezla PigDog, on 04 June 2019 - 06:04 AM, said:

Dance magic dance.

Yes, if nothing else, LABYRINTH gave us the best David Bowie Pop Fantasy song ever.

Five gyrating Bowie-crotches out of five.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 04 June 2019 - 02:18 PM, said:

You missed NEVERENDING STORY

This is the only one off your list I'll give you. It's very good, and holds up to re-watches. It slipped my mind.

Abyss, on 04 June 2019 - 02:18 PM, said:

THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Satire. Not REALLY the same thing...to me anyways. I love the film, but it's not the same ilk as the aforementioned ones.

Abyss, on 04 June 2019 - 02:18 PM, said:

both CONANs (yes, both)

Sword & Sorcery stuff is different from the fairytale high fantasy nature of the ones I mentioned. Like They have a VIBE that isn't present in the Conan films.

Abyss, on 04 June 2019 - 02:18 PM, said:

THE LAST UNICORN

MEH. Even the book. MEH.

Abyss, on 04 June 2019 - 02:18 PM, said:

BARON MUNCHAUSEN

I was eleven when this flick came out and I BEGGED my dad to take me to see it. The trailers looked so weird and fun. It is an absolutely ABYSMAL film. Disjointed, nutty, and generally indicative of the entirety of Gilliams work. There is no other film (oh, barring SPACED INVADERS; the infamous film that had the trailers cut with a voice cast and jokes....and then they recut it before release with a new voice cast and new jokes) that I've been THAT disappointed by after a theatre outing as a kid.

Abyss, on 04 June 2019 - 02:18 PM, said:

KRULL, THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, THE BEASTMASTER

NONE of these hold up. Not a one. A PORTION of KRULL is serviceable....but only a portion.

[Malankazooie]

Malankazooie, on 20 March 2019 - 08:29 PM, said:

It's happening! The movie the world needs right now. Be excellent to each other.

We have a title now: Bill & Ted Face the Music.

Dude, 'Bill & Ted' Are Dads: Brigette Lundy-Paine, Samara Weaving Join Threequel

And William Sadler will be back as the Grim Reaper!

[Aptorian]

400.000? Really that's way more than I'd thought.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 04 June 2019 - 02:57 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 June 2019 - 02:18 PM, said:

...
KRULL, THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, THE BEASTMASTER

NONE of these hold up. Not a one. A PORTION of KRULL is serviceable....but only a portion.

You are (inversely proportionately) dead to me.

Lackluster Bachelorette, on 04 June 2019 - 03:48 PM, said:

Krull is awesome!

You can stay.

Malankazooie, on 06 June 2019 - 05:56 PM, said:

...
We have a title now: Bill & Ted Face the Music..

I so love that this is a thing that is happening.
I think the first one is fun but gets way more love than it deserves, i think the second is utterly mediocre, at times crap, but even so, i love the fact that this is happening.


STATION!

[Malankazooie]

[QuickTidal]

The greatest thing about BOGUS JOURNEY is that it's SO different from EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. No plot lines are reproduced as you would typically see in a sequel like this, it also 100% pays off a dangling plot thread of the first film (the whole, Wyld Stallyns music "saves the world") by showing them getting there, being a worthy band ect. Yes, some of it is UTTERLY insane, but it's actually a better film because it's way riskier.

But yes, both are awesome and I can't wait for the 3rd.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 07 June 2019 - 02:59 PM, said:

The greatest thing about BOGUS JOURNEY is that it's SO different from EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. No plot lines are reproduced as you would typically see in a sequel like this, it also 100% pays off a dangling plot thread of the first film (the whole, Wyld Stallyns music "saves the world") by showing them getting there, being a worthy band ect. Yes, some of it is UTTERLY insane, but it's actually a better film because it's way riskier.

But yes, both are awesome and I can't wait for the 3rd.

They do not, at any point, actually learn how to play music, and Station, in both forms, is a large wrinkly anthropomorphic cock/ballsack.




STATION!!!!!

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 07 June 2019 - 03:50 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 07 June 2019 - 02:59 PM, said:

The greatest thing about BOGUS JOURNEY is that it's SO different from EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. No plot lines are reproduced as you would typically see in a sequel like this, it also 100% pays off a dangling plot thread of the first film (the whole, Wyld Stallyns music "saves the world") by showing them getting there, being a worthy band ect. Yes, some of it is UTTERLY insane, but it's actually a better film because it's way riskier.

But yes, both are awesome and I can't wait for the 3rd.

They do not, at any point, actually learn how to play music, and Station, in both forms, is a large wrinkly anthropomorphic cock/ballsack.




STATION!!!!!

They learn at the end man...they jump into the future and learn.