Watched Rogue One again the other day and it holds up very well against some of the main films.
Watched Rogue One again the other day and it holds up very well against some of the main films.
Rogue One is the only one worth bothering with, it's probably the second best in the entire franchise.
I suppose the first of the new ones [Force Awakens?] is a bit of a Greatest Hits/Megamix type effort, but it also induces a lot of sighing.
Also, I'm with Baz [and Mahow] on Ron's Gone Wrong. I saw it a while back and thought it was really good.
Will there be more of those ‘A Star Wars Story’ or is it going to be just the two and let the series do the rest? Was strange they did the two add-on films in between the same two films in the whole atory.
Especially the way the Han Solo film ended as well.
I think they plan on going the Marvel route of TV shows likely being better for those kinds of stories. The Mandalorian was generally excellent and the upcoming Obi-Wan and Boba Fett series are highly anticipated too.
Forgot about the Obi Wan show.
I got to the bit with the casino planet in TLJ and turned it off.
Yeah that chunk of it is pretty shit but on the whole I think it's one of the stronger ones.
The Matrix Resurrections is awful, like one of the worst films I can remember sitting through awful.
I think the most painful part of Don't Look Up is (predictably) the reception on Social Media. People seem to think this is a Zeitgeist changing moment and that anyone that disagrees is just to thick to understand the film.
Lads, it wasn't fucking subtle. There's no nuance to be unravelled here. The asteroid is Covid and Climate change, Streep is a short-termist politician, DeCaprio is a scientist that struggles to communicate how URGENT the matter is, the numpties are anti-vaxxers/climate change deniers. The end.
Nobody is changing their position based on this. The people that liked it were already tugging themselves off to Greta twice a day and the Conspiracy Theorists will just see this as Lefty Lizard Propaganda.
Go back to Tiger King you mongs.
If that’s not a parody account then we need an asteroid.Originally Posted by Pepe
I gather it doesn't even have good action. Like, 2 and 3 started rough and just got shitter as they went along but still managed some fun, memorable action / fight scenes.
A Star is Born is on iPlayer. Watched it last night, nothing special but solid affair.
I don't think Keanu even holds a gun during the entire film. He barely even fights too. Whenever there is trouble he just kind of does a force push.
One of my mates bounced off that for similar reasons. Barely any action and all Keanu does is talk his way through the film.
I think the first 90 minutes is devoted to explaining the new concept which leaves about 60 minutes for action (and 45 minutes of that is spent on romance).
You've seen the second one, right?
This new one does feel like low budget TV though. The warehouse fight scene could be in your sitcom.
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There are like literally one or two 'good' moments in the entire film and the action is all awful. One could describe the starting premise as a bold move and I do sympathise with that despite having hated it, but what's worse however is you get through that and then it hits you, this film has NOTHING left to offer and there's still 90 minutes to go.
I've seen them all, but a long time ago. And you're right, the warehouse scene is something any two bit tv show could pull off these days.
Action scenes are only good if they either have pain in them or are so ludicrous as a spectacle that you can't help but enjoy it and this had neither.
I remember when the trailer came out thinking it had a very "made for television" feel to it. It's a shame when you think about the very cutting edge roots of it as a franchise. I haven't watched them in a while but I'm confident a lot of the action scenes in the first one especially would retain their "wow" factor even if they appeared for the first time on a big screen tomorrow.
I assume it had a big budget so I'm not sure how they haven't had enough to try and do some revolutionary-looking again.
Glad everyone enjoyed Don't Look Up, like I did.
I fancy it. Any good?
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I've just watched Premonition (2007) with Sandra Bollock.
Bit of an film in truth, but once we were halfway through it we had to se how it ended.
I've been loving it, watching it in segments like a tv show (it's in three 3-hour parts and just now finished the second). I can see how others would easily find it boring and long but I'm a sucker for anything Beatles-related, I could watch them do anything for 9 hours. What's interesting about this is that it's probably the most intimate glimpse I've ever seen of them as human beings. Incredibly childish and immature, and by the same coin delightfully playful and silly; and then also geniuses. There's also a few great sequences like where you see Paul write "Get Back" right before your eyes.
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Phwoar.
For 57 years in this earth, she absolutely would.
Although Kate Beckinsale would be above her in the scoring chart.
Cor. Lads. Women, am I right?
The best babes thread is gathering dust and the soft shites have been empowered to this level, I think we've lost the war, Quince.
Watched Encanto tonight. I enjoyed it but it's probably the worst of the newer Disney/Pixar animated films.
It's rubbish.
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Another nonce.
It fucking awful.
Robocop is free with Prime Video so I watched that again. I don't think I've ever seen anything in my that comes close to it. There is no waste to that movie. It's a B-movie plot elevated to every decision being the right choice. It is the greatest movie ever made.
And Robocop 2. That's tonally a lot more schlocky but it's dumb fun. Robocop having his directives written by committee and the fallout from that is daft.
Glad to hear that kid didn't wind up a mess.Gabriel Damon Lavezzi (born April 23, 1976)[1] is an American real estate broker and former actor.
And now Robocop 3. Frank Miller's Robocop 3. Frank Miller, writer of the comic book where Robocop fucks a woman, made a 90's kids movie. Everyone kind of overacts in that 'its a kids movie' kind of way. There's still violence but it's all explosions and no squibs. I don't like Robocop 3. The idea of a chain smoking Japanese ninja robot is cool but it's a kids movie so he's all flips. OCP go from devious capitalists to comic buffoons. Robert Burke seems to be acting himself into an overbite in the Robocop suit and his voice just does not work. It didn't drag but man, it's a wholly different thing to the other movies.
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I let my nostalgia get the better of me and watched the Sonic the Hedgehog film last night. It is, as you'd expect, not very good but I'd be lying if I said I was actually bored. Jim Carrey's rubbery humour is still fun, I like Ben Schwartz and Cyclops isn't bad as a quippy leading man type even if the gags aren't always up to much.
The product placement though, oh Lord. Not just "James Bond waggling his Vaio at the camera" type stuff, characters actively talking about sponsors and saying the Olive Garden slogan. Fucking hell.
Ghostbusters Afterlife is another greatest hits type film but definitely redeems itself with the ending. Bit of a rehash of GB 1 with the main villains and not sure how they'd continue the franchise but still, largely enjoyable.
Just watched No Time To Die. Very 'meh'.
I thought the end of GBA was pretty poor, all things considered.
I watched Mother/Android on Netflix last night. It's shit, avoid.
Has anybody seen His House? When I was seeing what else was on Netflix last night I spotted that and it seems to have reviewed well.
I say this having seen neither Afterlife or the first reboot but it all sounds a bit like what Star Wars did, "Oh shit we annoyed the fans with the last one. Quick! Hit the Nostalgia Button!" Is that unfair? Reviews I've seen seem very mixed between it being fine but as you say, a bit of a Ghostbusters remix, and the perceived pandering putting people off.
DS waxed lyrical about His House. It was a bit weird for my taste, but it kept me interested enough.
I've not seen the woman's only one so not sure how they compare but it does seem to hit on the nostalgia buttons a lot (ooo little stay puft marshmellow men!). We watched 1 and 2 before this one and they are very different films though, for one, it's not really in New York and is dominated by kids as the main stars. In that way, it almost feels like it's just aimed at kids (which GB1/2 weren't). It's also 30 minutes longer than it needs to be.
I reckon about 90% of films are longer than they need to be now.
The 2016 reboot was definitely chasing after nostalgia but it also had this weird 'this is what we think women like' tint. It leads to Chris Hemsworth being the thickest dunce imaginable and scenes of nothing but dancing.
Is No Way Home available for stealing yet?
It's not on the site I use.
Licorice Pizza delivered tonight.
Watched Don't Look Up with trepidation: it was better than I thought it would be and didn't feel as long as Bond despite the similar run time. That said I agree with Ianucci et al that satire is pointless now because the truth is more ridiculous and I think that is the biggest flaw that can be said about this film: half the stuff shown for lols isn't even satirizing fictional events it is just a reenactment of things that already happened in real life framed within the film's narrative.
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