[Tsundoku]

 Aptorian, on 28 June 2021 - 03:50 PM, said:

New Foundation Movie trailer (Based on Isac Assimov's book series):



Hard to get any real grasp on the movies plot from the trailer but interesting to see the adaption. It looks very spectacular, yet when I recall the books I think of something very pulpy. Like the Jetsons or Flash Gordon.

OK, looks interesting.

[Tiste Simeon]

Just watched the trailer for that Netflix Western and yeah I'll agree it looks flipping ace.

[worry]

Pluto is pretty sweet in many regards, especially some of the live channels, just know that it's part of a new-ish streaming trend of offering you a library of free uncut movies, but they're interrupted by commercial breaks pretty haphazardly (like potentially right in the middle of a scene or dialogue) as the 'price' you pay for free. No big whoop for the most part. There are some less legit streaming apps that do this but stack up commercials like crazy though.

[Macros]

I saw it on Netflix last night when scrolling

I thought it was a live action but the trailer on Netflix was awful bad CGI, like they just lifted it from the older games bad

[Primateus]

I watched The Tomorrow War yesterday. It was pretty good.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely ridiculous, even fairly predictable. But damn me if it wasn't an entertaining movie.

[QuickTidal]

 Primateus, on 05 July 2021 - 01:53 PM, said:

I watched The Tomorrow War yesterday. It was pretty good.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely ridiculous, even fairly predictable. But damn me if it wasn't an entertaining movie.

Answer me this:

Spoiler

Is Yvonne Strahovski playing his daughter in the future?

[champ]

 Primateus, on 05 July 2021 - 01:53 PM, said:

I watched The Tomorrow War yesterday. It was pretty good.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely ridiculous, even fairly predictable. But damn me if it wasn't an entertaining movie.

I binned it off after seeing IGN gave it 3/10 but may give it a shot now.

[Primateus]

 QuickTidal, on 05 July 2021 - 01:56 PM, said:

 Primateus, on 05 July 2021 - 01:53 PM, said:

I watched The Tomorrow War yesterday. It was pretty good.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely ridiculous, even fairly predictable. But damn me if it wasn't an entertaining movie.

Answer me this:

Spoiler

Is Yvonne Strahovski playing his daughter in the future?

Spoiler

As I said, movie is predictable, but still very entertaining.

[Cause]

 Primateus, on 05 July 2021 - 09:20 PM, said:

I watched The Tomorrow War yesterday. It was pretty good.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely ridiculous, even fairly predictable. But damn me if it wasn't an entertaining movie.

Movie is garbage that undermines its own world building but even worse it’s own plot points at every turn


Massive spoilers to follow! massive!

Spoiler

The travel 30 years back in time to earn earth that we are losing the tomorrow early. Instead of spending the next 30 years building up defenses, stockpiling weapons and training soldiers. We send untrained civilians into the future to get slaughtered? Into a future in which half the planet is already a dumpster fire?

Then we learn that the whole point of the tomorrow war was to develop a biological weapon in the future. Apparently they only think to send it to the past as a last resort as the final base is over run. This would almost have made sense as a plot if in addition to working on the r&d in the future they were fortifying and training today and not as I said sending untrained conscripts into the future

The conscripts by the way suffer about a 70% attrition rate, so clearly not a huge help

Finally we send the biological weapon into the past. Which means they war is won! However the governments of the past choose instead to think the war is lost since it was lost in the future but the timeline is now changes.

Anyway our hero figures out after a min conversation with his wife that the alien enemy didn’t land 30 years in the future but was actually trapped under ice in Siberia and thawed out due to global warming. So he goes to kill them with the biological weapon alone. He actually ends up using c4 and bullets. Making the biological weapon unnecessary. Making it an incredible failure of Chekhov’s gun.

[worry]

I watched Bill & Ted Face the Music (now on HULU, in the U.S.). It's not as good as the first two and has some obvious limitations as kind of a niche project with a small-ish budget, but it's a cute and good-natured nostalgia trip if you're feeling receptive to one. It's not as funny or as patient with its plot or its characters as it could be, but ah well, if anyone can coast on good will it might be these two goofballs. It does more right than Coming 2 America did, at least. William Sadler (returning as Death) and Anthony Carrigan (the scene-stealer from Barry) are both very good and very funny in this.

[QuickTidal]

 worry, on 06 July 2021 - 07:07 PM, said:

but it's a cute and good-natured nostalgia trip if you're feeling receptive to one.

Exactly how I felt!

[QuickTidal]

Re-watching BLADE RUNNER 2049, and man I always forget how gorgeous this flick is and how incredible the score is. Easily in my top ten fave movies of all time, might even be top 5.

[Mezla PigDog]

 worry, on 06 July 2021 - 07:07 PM, said:

I watched Bill & Ted Face the Music (now on HULU, in the U.S.). It's not as good as the first two and has some obvious limitations as kind of a niche project with a small-ish budget, but it's a cute and good-natured nostalgia trip if you're feeling receptive to one. It's not as funny or as patient with its plot or its characters as it could be, but ah well, if anyone can coast on good will it might be these two goofballs. It does more right than Coming 2 America did, at least. William Sadler (returning as Death) and Anthony Carrigan (the scene-stealer from Barry) are both very good and very funny in this.

I saw this on Saturday. It's certainly not great but there are some excellent moments.

Spoiler

Evil future Bill and Ted particularly in Dave Grohl's house and the jail scene really cracked me up.

I saw the ending coming a long way off though.

[worry]

Lol yeah.

[QuickTidal]

Everyone needs to go watch LA 92. It's on Disney+ in Canada and I THINK Netflix in the States (could be D+ there too, as it's Nat Geo).

I don't know what it is about documentaries about events that took place in my own lifetime that make it affect me on another level. We heard about the bigger points of the LA Riots in '92 in Canada, like the Rodney King beating and the subsequent miscarriage of justice with the cops getting off, and whatnot....but like I had no idea about Latasha Harlins, another innocent death and miscarriage of justice, the Watts 1965 events as well were completely unknown to me as a Canadian.

This is also one of my fave types of documentaries, in that there are no talking heads. Footage from all avenues at the time is allowed to speak for itself, and I always feel that's more genuine and poignant in this type of doc.

Anyways, it's a stunning, thought-provoking, and just genuinely incredibly made documentary of the whole situation. WELL WELL worth your time if you've not seen it.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 14 July 2021 - 12:29 PM

[Malankazooie]

Is Gunpowder Milkshake on anyone's radar? Looks like a John Wick type flick, but instead with female assassins, who operate out of a library. Yes please.

[Aptorian]

I can't remember when I last saw a Bruce Willis film and didn't wonder why he doesn't just retire. He was perhaps my favorite actor in the 80s and 90s because he added a perfect mix of humanity and comedy to his action characters. Now there's no magic to his name any longer.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 17 July 2021 - 06:17 PM

[worry]

I watched all the Fear Street movies. The first two are both squarely "okay" imo -- BK is totally right that the period aspect is just on the surface....everything about them seems very modern except like there's no cell phones, and the music matches the time (but songs are largely obvious choices). The scripts don't really do anything new either, but the kills are occasionally pretty great and there's kind of a commitment to all around Rater R territory I wasn't expecting.
The third one though is actually a step up. Not great, but less generic, more interesting, and it actually wraps the overall story up pretty nicely. It captures more of the magic the first two were trying for. They all come as a package since it's one long story, and they're each well over the 90 minutes they should be, so I guess you just gotta cost-benefit your time.

[Malankazooie]

... career defining ... tour de force ... iconoclast.

You can't cage the Nick.

[Macros]

What?