[Abyss]

Malankazooie, on 04 July 2019 - 02:58 PM, said:

Watched Moana ...Are there any other movies (Disney or similar) that are of this high quality that you guys would recommend? I think I've heard/read about a movie called Brave is supposed to be really good.

I admit to loving the Disney/Pixar stuff, in a manly adult beer swilling way. I deny any suggestion i teared up at any of the below, all viewings of which were at the height of allergy season... yes, i have watched THE INCREDIBLES seventeen times and it was ALWAYS ALLERGY SEASON dammit....


BRAVE is cute, worth seeing, but not as epic as MOANA.

I would put MULAN close to MOANA. FROZEN too. LION KING probably.

If you want the feels, the visuals, and the epic, FINDING NEMO and FINDING DORY (mostly) are hard to beat.

If you haven't seen THE INCREDIBLES and the sequel what the living fuck is wrong with you? are you dead inside or something? turn in your geek card now and go sit in an empty room watching infomercials you communist! you should. You really really should. BIG HERO SIX is close.

Ditto everything HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON related, movie and tv.

The SHREK movies are a bit inconsistent, 1 and 2 are great, 3 meh, 4 good enough, but even the much weaker 3 has a few moments (and one in particular... two words: Immigrant Song) worth seeing it for.

WALL-E... somewhat epic, cute, in the end a little too silly for an adult audience to enjoy as much as some of the others above. Same for MONSTERS VS ALIENS.

BOOK OF LIFE and COCO... beautiful to look at, if trite for an adult. Ditto ZOOTOPIA. UP. MONSTERS. RATATOUILLE. TANGLED. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS. DINOSAUR. All entertaining but not quite as 'adult wow' if we set MOANA as the standard.

I acknowledge the appeal of the TOY STORY movies but have never loved them the way some people seem to. CARS exists to sell bad merch.

...and if you want to go serious old school Disney and don't mind some screen update issues, i utterly reco tracking down THE RESCUERS and THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER, which will kick you right in the feels while entertaining you.

[Abyss]

BfuckinK, on 04 July 2019 - 03:47 PM, said:

Motherfucker is really another Marvel movie out now? Ugh I'm already so behind! Netflix needs to hurry up and get CM and Endgame up so I can attempt to catch back up on new releases.

Yeah, you're fighting a losing battle there, because they will milk every direct dl and disk sale dollar from those before they put them on streaming.


And i fully expect the 2019 holiday season collected disk sets to be nothing less than a full frontal assault the likes of which Thanos' armies can only dream of.

[champ]

BfuckinK, on 04 July 2019 - 03:47 PM, said:

Motherfucker is really another Marvel movie out now? Ugh I'm already so behind! Netflix needs to hurry up and get CM and Endgame up so I can attempt to catch back up on new releases.

I "think" Captain Marvel will be the last Marvel film that they put on Netflix due to Disney's new Streaming Service that will be released soon.

Sure I read that somewhere...

I then went and found this:

https://comicbook.co...-movies-return/

This post has been edited by champ: 04 July 2019 - 03:59 PM

[D'rek]

Tiste Simeon, on 04 July 2019 - 03:18 PM, said:

And The Emperor's New Groove is hands down the best of all Disney films.

I will never understand what people like so much about this movie.

Abyss, on 04 July 2019 - 03:25 PM, said:

Malankazooie, on 04 July 2019 - 02:58 PM, said:

Watched Moana ...Are there any other movies (Disney or similar) that are of this high quality that you guys would recommend? I think I've heard/read about a movie called Brave is supposed to be really good.

I admit to loving the Disney/Pixar stuff, in a manly adult beer swilling way. I deny any suggestion i teared up at any of the below, all viewings of which were at the height of allergy season... yes, i have watched THE INCREDIBLES seventeen times and it was ALWAYS ALLERGY SEASON dammit....


BRAVE is cute, worth seeing, but not as epic as MOANA.

I would put MULAN close to MOANA. FROZEN too. LION KING probably.

If you want the feels, the visuals, and the epic, FINDING NEMO and FINDING DORY (mostly) are hard to beat.

If you haven't seen THE INCREDIBLES and the sequel what the living fuck is wrong with you? are you dead inside or something? turn in your geek card now and go sit in an empty room watching infomercials you communist! you should. You really really should. BIG HERO SIX is close.

Ditto everything HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON related, movie and tv.

The SHREK movies are a bit inconsistent, 1 and 2 are great, 3 meh, 4 good enough, but even the much weaker 3 has a few moments (and one in particular... two words: Immigrant Song) worth seeing it for.

WALL-E... somewhat epic, cute, in the end a little too silly for an adult audience to enjoy as much as some of the others above. Same for MONSTERS VS ALIENS.

BOOK OF LIFE and COCO... beautiful to look at, if trite for an adult. Ditto ZOOTOPIA. UP. MONSTERS. RATATOUILLE. TANGLED. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS. DINOSAUR. All entertaining but not quite as 'adult wow' if we set MOANA as the standard.

I acknowledge the appeal of the TOY STORY movies but have never loved them the way some people seem to. CARS exists to sell bad merch.

...and if you want to go serious old school Disney and don't mind some screen update issues, i utterly reco tracking down THE RESCUERS and THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER, which will kick you right in the feels while entertaining you.

Or drink 7 redbulls and watch Redline. You know you want to.

[worry]

I like Emperor's New Groove fine, but it does seem to have a cult (yah I said cult) of people who swear by it! I would consider Lilo & Stitch the best of the post-2nd-Golden-Age Disney movies, though Moana is right up there.

[Abyss]

D, on 04 July 2019 - 05:09 PM, said:

...
Or drink 7 redbulls and watch Redline. You know you want to.

AGAIN?

...fine, but this is the LAST time for reals....

[Macros]

Mulan and the Lion King for the win

[Illuyankas]

QuickTidal, on 04 July 2019 - 01:19 PM, said:

I also saw SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME yesterday, and really enjoyed it. If I was ranking it in the entire MCU it's fully top middle of the pack (better than the likes of Captain Marvel and Thor 2, but not a scratch on either GUARDIANS movies or the Avengers ones), but I still had a lot of fun watching it, and think it's excellent.

Will go into spoilers for the rest of my comments.

Spoiler

I loved what they did with Mysterio. I had a feeling going in, based on who he has always been in the comics, that I'd be able to immediately tell how they would use him....but I was STILL almost fooled by that fucker into thinking he was good. The whole "disgruntled former Stark employees" aspect where Mysterio and his illusions are a team of talented tech dudes makes SOOOOOO much sense in the MCU. It allows a touchstone to Stark's influence not just on Peter (in a positive way), but also in a poor way to people who felt mistreated by his magnanimity. Gyllenhaal is note-fucking-perfect as Quentin Beck. All the scenes that prelude the "reveal" of who Mysterio is...you buy it. You 100% buy this benevolent superpower dude who is helping Peter through the PTSD from Stark and his place in the world now. Also, I LOVE LOVE LOVE that the bad guy is essentially a guy in a Mo-Cap suit with tech gadgets stolen from Stark.

The "Far From Home/Spider-man and his friends on Holidays" works ONLY because of the tight and tonally excellent chemistry between Zendaya's MJ and Holland's Parker. Every single scene with them and their friends hinges it's greatness on that combo, so kudos for the best Spider-man casting ever (McGuire is a close second), and probably my favourite MJ to date as well. The jokes that come from this portion of the film are always chuckle-worthy, if not perfect. The teachers who are in charge of the trip bumble around and do a lot of the slapstick work and I have to admit, it was corny but I laughed.

The MCU revelations we thought were present, may not be. Beck is clearly NOT what he said he was (from another Earth)...this doesn't mean that the multiverse isn't on the table...I fully think it is since they made it a plot point (albeit made-up) here for the audience. Missing is the bit from the trailer where Fury explains that the Thanos Snap produced the way for Beck to come to our universe from his...

The explain the Blip....which was the moment of the Snap and which students aged and which blipped out and back in a moment in the opening which was a nice add. I know people questioned why Peter and his friends all were still young at the ned of Endgame, well it's because the Snapture Blipped his friends. They have one dude who stayed and aged the 5 years. The students all had to repeat the year they were in. This also allows for jokes, like MJ on the plane telling the flight attendant that Flash is not 5 years older and thus should not be drinking.

The post-credits scenes open up some interesting things going forward:

-Beck recorded a video before his "death" framing Spider-man for the elementals and drones and damage in London...and reveals that he is Peter Parker. This happens over the big screen at Times Square. That's already huge, but what happens next is more insane...J Jonah Jameson is the one reporting this from the Daily Bugle (acting like Alex Jones) and it's....J. K. Simmons! That's right the J Jonah from the Raimi Spider-man movies is J Jonah in the MCU ones. My kingdom for a McGuire cameo from an alternate earth.

- the second post-credits scene shows that Maria Hill and Nick Fury from this film are ACTUALLY Talos and Soren (the Skrulls from Captain Marvel) and that they've been covering for the real Fury and Hill...who we find on some sort of ship or space station...my guess is that this is the genesis of S.W.O.R.D.

And SOOOOOO many moments throughout the film I kept thinking "Man, Fury seems "off" in some way. What's up with Sam Jackson?..." and then after the reveal I was like "OF COURSE he's off because it was Talos the whole time trying to ACT like Fury!"....brilliant. Utterly brilliant. There is also one big tipoff to who Fury is, when Peter is asking why the other Avengers can't help he's like "not here, off world, busy" about most of them...but when Peter mentions Cap Marvel Fury-Talos's reply is much more hardcore "Don't invoke her name!"....and this would be because to Talos... Captain Marvel is his saviour and a queen worth worshipping and not worthy of some little superhero kid calling her up to help him. It was only after the reveal in the post-credits that this made sense to me. And funnily enough, the tiny snippet we get of REAL Fury is spot on to his portrayal in the MCU.

Spiderman Home and Away spoilers:

Spoiler

I took it that Beck's crew had falsified the video using their tech because I didn't think Peter would have missed Beck saying that into a camera during their showdown.

[QuickTidal]

Illuyankas, on 04 July 2019 - 10:09 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 04 July 2019 - 01:19 PM, said:

I also saw SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME yesterday, and really enjoyed it. If I was ranking it in the entire MCU it's fully top middle of the pack (better than the likes of Captain Marvel and Thor 2, but not a scratch on either GUARDIANS movies or the Avengers ones), but I still had a lot of fun watching it, and think it's excellent.

Will go into spoilers for the rest of my comments.

Spoiler

I loved what they did with Mysterio. I had a feeling going in, based on who he has always been in the comics, that I'd be able to immediately tell how they would use him....but I was STILL almost fooled by that fucker into thinking he was good. The whole "disgruntled former Stark employees" aspect where Mysterio and his illusions are a team of talented tech dudes makes SOOOOOO much sense in the MCU. It allows a touchstone to Stark's influence not just on Peter (in a positive way), but also in a poor way to people who felt mistreated by his magnanimity. Gyllenhaal is note-fucking-perfect as Quentin Beck. All the scenes that prelude the "reveal" of who Mysterio is...you buy it. You 100% buy this benevolent superpower dude who is helping Peter through the PTSD from Stark and his place in the world now. Also, I LOVE LOVE LOVE that the bad guy is essentially a guy in a Mo-Cap suit with tech gadgets stolen from Stark.

The "Far From Home/Spider-man and his friends on Holidays" works ONLY because of the tight and tonally excellent chemistry between Zendaya's MJ and Holland's Parker. Every single scene with them and their friends hinges it's greatness on that combo, so kudos for the best Spider-man casting ever (McGuire is a close second), and probably my favourite MJ to date as well. The jokes that come from this portion of the film are always chuckle-worthy, if not perfect. The teachers who are in charge of the trip bumble around and do a lot of the slapstick work and I have to admit, it was corny but I laughed.

The MCU revelations we thought were present, may not be. Beck is clearly NOT what he said he was (from another Earth)...this doesn't mean that the multiverse isn't on the table...I fully think it is since they made it a plot point (albeit made-up) here for the audience. Missing is the bit from the trailer where Fury explains that the Thanos Snap produced the way for Beck to come to our universe from his...

The explain the Blip....which was the moment of the Snap and which students aged and which blipped out and back in a moment in the opening which was a nice add. I know people questioned why Peter and his friends all were still young at the ned of Endgame, well it's because the Snapture Blipped his friends. They have one dude who stayed and aged the 5 years. The students all had to repeat the year they were in. This also allows for jokes, like MJ on the plane telling the flight attendant that Flash is not 5 years older and thus should not be drinking.

The post-credits scenes open up some interesting things going forward:

-Beck recorded a video before his "death" framing Spider-man for the elementals and drones and damage in London...and reveals that he is Peter Parker. This happens over the big screen at Times Square. That's already huge, but what happens next is more insane...J Jonah Jameson is the one reporting this from the Daily Bugle (acting like Alex Jones) and it's....J. K. Simmons! That's right the J Jonah from the Raimi Spider-man movies is J Jonah in the MCU ones. My kingdom for a McGuire cameo from an alternate earth.

- the second post-credits scene shows that Maria Hill and Nick Fury from this film are ACTUALLY Talos and Soren (the Skrulls from Captain Marvel) and that they've been covering for the real Fury and Hill...who we find on some sort of ship or space station...my guess is that this is the genesis of S.W.O.R.D.

And SOOOOOO many moments throughout the film I kept thinking "Man, Fury seems "off" in some way. What's up with Sam Jackson?..." and then after the reveal I was like "OF COURSE he's off because it was Talos the whole time trying to ACT like Fury!"....brilliant. Utterly brilliant. There is also one big tipoff to who Fury is, when Peter is asking why the other Avengers can't help he's like "not here, off world, busy" about most of them...but when Peter mentions Cap Marvel Fury-Talos's reply is much more hardcore "Don't invoke her name!"....and this would be because to Talos... Captain Marvel is his saviour and a queen worth worshipping and not worthy of some little superhero kid calling her up to help him. It was only after the reveal in the post-credits that this made sense to me. And funnily enough, the tiny snippet we get of REAL Fury is spot on to his portrayal in the MCU.

Spiderman Home and Away spoilers:

Spoiler

I took it that Beck's crew had falsified the video using their tech because I didn't think Peter would have missed Beck saying that into a camera during their showdown.

Yes, that’s probably the right read on the scene, for sure.

[QuickTidal]

Really REALLY cool video by Director of Shazam David Sandberg about how movies are all problem solving and video essays that critique them don't have all the info a lot of the time.

[Traveller]

That new Lion King trailer does look tempting. Not bothered about Aladdin and a lot of the remakes to be honest, but I enjoyed the Jungle Book, and the Lion King looks like it's going to be worth seeing.

Took the kids to see Secret Life of Pets 2. It was better than the first one, they really enjoyed it, and they chose it over Toy Story.

Been a weird week. First people complaining about the Ariel casting, which looks like a great choice; and then I had to listen to a film critic slating Toy Story 4 as a terrible movie, SOLELY because 1. There is no black lead 2. It is 'hetero-normative.'

I mean, really? The Ariel casting is perfect. The original film still exists ffs.

And 'heteronormative?' So now movies are inherently bad if they feature a hetero relationship. Better scrap all those classics then.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 06 July 2019 - 04:00 PM

[Tsundoku]

Saw Toy Story 4 with the boy today. I was a little worried that it may have been an unnecessary cash grab but it turned out better than expected.

Sure, it may actually have been an unnecessary cash grab, but it was a well-done unnecessary cash grab. And something was in my eye OK!!!

Eight lost toys out of ten.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 14 July 2019 - 07:23 AM

[QuickTidal]

KINGSMAN (prequel) trailer is out and it's DAMNED good!

It won't embed, so you'll have to follow the link to YT.

Trailer

But two things that jump out at me are Rasputin and what LOOKS like it may be the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, thus kicking off WWI.

Man, this looks tight!

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 July 2019 - 03:56 PM

[Slow Ben]

Tsundoku, on 14 July 2019 - 07:17 AM, said:

Saw Toy Story 4 with the boy today. I was a little worried that it may have been an unnecessary cash grab but it turned out better than expected.

Sure, it may actually have been an unnecessary cash grab, but it was a well-done unnecessary cash grab. And something was in my eye OK!!!

Eight lost toys out of ten.

Yeah, we enjoyed it.

And FYI, Bo Peep is a certified Badass.

[Slow Ben]

The Last Starfighter sequel in development.

https://www.google.c...r-sequel/%3famp

I don’t know how many times I watched this when I was a kid but it had to be in triple digits.

“What do you mean, theoretically ?”

[Abyss]

Slow Ben, on 16 July 2019 - 05:35 PM, said:

The Last Starfighter sequel in development.

https://www.google.c...r-sequel/%3famp

I don't know how many times I watched this when I was a kid but it had to be in triple digits.

"What do you mean, theoretically ?"

INITIATE DEATH BLOSSOM!!!!!!!

[Macros]

Yes

[Tsundoku]

Very much so.

And a Last Starfighter sequel ... half of me is thrilled, but the other half is terrified. I call this the "Phantom Menace Effect".

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 18 July 2019 - 08:01 AM

[Malankazooie]

SDCC kicked off today and continues through the weekend, so there's going to be a lot of trailers and other buzz worthy reveals. In the spirit of that, here's one.

[QuickTidal]

Very NSFW (cursing)