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Post by OdanUrr on Oct 5, 2020 21:23:01 GMT
If theaters are still around by then...
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Post by mybudgee on Oct 10, 2020 1:48:31 GMT
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Post by Noxluxe on Oct 11, 2020 13:33:04 GMT
Have a bug I need to shake off by tomorrow, so I'm aggressively recuperating with light, nostalgic entertainment plus some takeout. Really underrated movie that vaguely tries to depict the "real" 3rd-century Artorius Castus we think Arthur Pendragon is based on, a Roman officer born in Britain and a company of indentured knights "requisitioned" as boys from all over Eastern Europe by the Roman Empire to defend a province they didn't even really care about retaining. Even without magic or actual fairy tale elements, it's a fucking powerful emotional and dramatic story with gorgeous costumes and really deep dialogue. And not terrible fight choreography. It's also the only depiction of Arthur I've seen that made me go 'Okay, yeah, men would actually make that guy their king and die in his name'. Thank you Clive Owen. And Stellan Skarsgård rocks as a dry-witted and ruthless Saxon warlord. Aaaand we saw Mulan. The real one. Turned out it isn't the racist, sexist propaganda fest I'd suddenly been lead to believe it was. I'm shocked. The movie is a masterpiece of art and music and storytelling. And hilarious to boot, not least thanks to Eddie Murphy's Mushu. Getting top comedians to voice the sarcastic animal sidekicks always pays off. It's easy to forget how insanely strong Disney's content was in the 90's, and exactly how badly they're molesting their own legacy right now.
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Post by Zemgus on Oct 15, 2020 18:54:56 GMT
I recently watched Venom. The first part of the movie was boring and pretty similar to other superhero movies: average dude has a girlfriend and then something happens and they break up. That's the most boring way for a movie to start. The actors didn't have any chemistry which didn't help matters... would've been more believable if Anne was Eddie's sister or bestfriend. Michelle Williams was worse in this movie than I thought she would be - like she wasn't even trying to seriously act. Tom Hardy is a great actor (loved him in The Take, Wuthering Heights and Peaky Blinders) and I think the best scenes in the film were the one's where it's just Eddie and Venom together. There were some funny scenes in there. Overall I would say it was worse than I thought, the only good thing about the movie is Tom Hardy's and Riz Ahmed's character performances. 2/10
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Post by Noxluxe on Oct 15, 2020 20:16:55 GMT
I recently watched Venom. The first part of the movie was boring and pretty similar to other superhero movies: average dude has a girlfriend and then something happens and they break up. That's the most boring way for a movie to start. The actors didn't have any chemistry which didn't help matters... would've been more believable if Anne was Eddie's sister or bestfriend. Michelle Williams was worse in this movie than I thought she would be - like she wasn't even trying to seriously act. Tom Hardy is a great actor (loved him in The Take, Wuthering Heights and Peaky Blinders) and I think the best scenes in the film were the one's where it's just Eddie and Venom together. There were some funny scenes in there. Overall I would say it was worse than I thought, the only good thing about the movie is Tom Hardy's and Riz Ahmed's character performances. 2/10 Agreed. My own impression was that the director must have seen Hardy flailing around like a junkie and thought "We could make a kickass and hilarious possession movie out of that." And then they just sort of forgot to make everything else good as well.
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Post by Sonya on Nov 1, 2020 20:07:10 GMT
Les Choristes
A french one, but available in English as well. Not a big fan of such movies but this is one of not many that just make you stay in front on the screen.
First saw it while studying at the university, since that time watch it from time to time. In part due to connection with my own profession, in part as a movie to admire. Educational, somewhere someone can even cry (like some other students as recall), at the same time serious, problematic, and with funny moments.
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Post by OdanUrr on Dec 2, 2020 2:43:42 GMT
This is not the first time I've watched this movie but it is the first time I'm writing a review about it here (I briefly mentioned it in my Mulan review). The Great Wall follows a pair of mercenaries, William (Matt Damon) and Tovar (Pedro "This is the way" Pascal), who accidentally find themselves involved in a centuries-old war against fantastical creatures called the Tao Tei while searching for black powder. Against the Tao Tei stands the mighty Nameless Order, with their incredibly varied and highly-trained corps, and their greatest weapon, the Great Wall, an advanced technological contraption designed to fend off this ruthless enemy. Challenged and at the same time inspired by the beautiful commander of the all-female Crane Corps, Lin Mae (Jing Tian), William must choose his path forward: stay and help these people in their war against the Tao Tei (and probably die), or stick to the original plan and escape with the black powder. Obviously, William chooses the former or we wouldn't have a movie but the dilemma is presented nonetheless. There are many things I liked about this movie but let's start with the obvious first: this movie is a visual spectacle. This is apparently something the movie's director, Zhang Yimou, is known for (e.g. he also directed Hero which was also visually beautiful, among others) and it shows from the cinematography to the costume design. As mentioned previously, the Nameless Order is comprised of five different corps which are represented by a different animal and colour. Thus we have the Bear Corps (Black) for the foot soldiers; the Tiger Corps (Yellow) for the artillery; the Eagle Corps (Red) for the archers; the Deer Corps (Purple) for the cavalry; and the Crane Corps (Blue) for the bungee-jumping close-quarters specialists. I'm a sucker for an army that's well-organised and fights with style and the Nameless Order is certainly that. The amount of thought and effort that went into making these intricate and detailed armours (I'm partial to the Crane Corps' costume design) is commendable and seeing the different corps mobilising on the Wall to fend off the first Tao Tei attack is definitely striking. There are other scenes, like when they light up hundreds of lanterns into the night sky or when they fly to the Imperial Palace, that look incredible in 1080p so I can only imagine how they'd look in 4K. The visuals are very well complimented by the excellent (it passes my over 50%-liked-tracks test) soundtrack from Ramin Djawadi, probably my favourite work of his thus far. Truly, his music elevates scenes like this one, where Lin Mae raises a point about trust while William considers whether to bungee-jump; you can also notice how the music mirrors William's inner turmoil in this scene and how it swells when William makes his choice to stand and fight. The music is used quite skillfully in this movie to my mind, something we often take for granted. Insofar the plot is concerned, it is pretty straightforward and wastes no time: there is a threat and two heroes from different worlds must unite to put and end to it. There are hints to William's darker past, especially through the character of Tovar, what makes him wrestle a bit with the decision to fight or flee, but you'll have to fill in the blanks for the most part as the character development is very basic. To give you an idea, do not go into this movie thinking Damon's William will go through a similar journey as Cruise's Nathan Algren (The Last Samurai) 'cause it's nowhere close as The Great Wall is an action-adventure movie first and foremost. As such, performances are not especially praiseworthy but they don't have to be as they serve the movie well. Certainly, if I had to compare them to those in Disney's live-action Mulan (not a very high bar to be fair), performances in The Great Wall are superior across the board, and Jing Tian's Lin Mae is leagues better than Liu Yifei's Mulan. The movie even manages to get across a hint of romance between William and Lin Mae, an element that was absent from Mulan's live-action adaptation. As you can see from the BR cover, Willem Dafoe is in this movie but thankfully playing a less over-the-top character (Ballard) than in other movies. I also felt that Pascal's Tovar was a good and necessary complement to Damon's somewhat dull William, whose accent jumped around throughout the movie. Since I mentioned the BR cover one last point I wish to make is that I really don't like it, probably because it has too many characters crammed in (and Jing Tian's looks as if it has been photoshopped on top of her body) and a basic selection of font and placement of text. I would've gone for something like in the art book of the movie: All in all, this is an entertaining action-adventure movie that I could easily rewatch. IMDb has it rated at 5.9/10 but, then again, IMDb also has Mulan at 5.5/10 and The Great Wall is definitely the superior of the two. My original rating for this movie was a 7/10 but I could see myself raising it to an 8/10 in terms of my own personal enjoyment. I think William's character could've been fleshed out more (the music does a lot of the legwork believe it or not) and there was probably overuse of CGI in the monster department, particularly during the final battle in order to "raise the stakes" but I think that may have been counterproductive.
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Post by Patricia on Dec 4, 2020 8:56:27 GMT
Yeah i've bin away for a while so this movie that i saw is from a loooong time ago and i've seen the movie ten times already because it's that good at least i think so. 9.85/10
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2020 20:52:21 GMT
I saw the Lighthouse, recently. It's a weird ass movie, ngl. But I really enjoyed it. It's quite ambiguous, and its ending rose even more questions, instead of giving answers And I loved the allusions to the myths of Proteus and Prometheus. Plus, both William Dafoe and Robert Pattinson were amazing in it.
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Post by dazk on Dec 20, 2020 23:07:23 GMT
Just watched the first Gal Gadot Wonder Woman movie last night and I cannot believe IMDB give it a 7.4 and Rotten Tomatoes gave it 85%.
Maybe my expectations on what I had heard was too high or I must have just not been in the mood as the movie was at best a 6 out of 10 for me. Some of the acting and the story were just awful. Anyway not going to waste anymore time or effort writing about it.
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Post by Sweet FA on Dec 21, 2020 15:09:21 GMT
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Post by OdanUrr on Dec 26, 2020 17:54:04 GMT
I'm placing my review under spoiler tags because it's rather long but I don't spoil any plot points from the movie.
Introduction
What to make of this film? That's what I'm trying to figure out as I write this review. Wonder Woman 1984 is the sequel to 2017's Wonder Woman, a film I found to be a breath of fresh air amidst Snyder's Man of Steel and Batman vs Superman. As many have pointed out before, Wonder Woman, both the film and the character, reminded me of Donner and Reeves' Superman, and this is something that is still present in WW84, perhaps even more so. In fact, the argument could be made that this movie was lifted straight from the 80s due to a combination of elements (writing, dialogue, visuals, acting) that add to its charm, yes, but are also perhaps the movie's greatest weakness. To give a few examples, Maxwell Lord, the main antagonist, does echo Hackman's Lex Luthor to some extent, right down to having his own Mrs Teschmacher; the set where the climax of the movie takes place is something that could've been taken from an old Bond movie; and the way many of the supporting cast act is a mix of Donner's Superman and Schumacher's Batman and Robin, the latter of which takes us into the 90s and not in a particularly fond way. But let's talk some positives, shall we? Characters
Obviously, the highlight of this movie are Diana and Steve. Like I said, Diana's Wonder Woman echoes Reeves' Superman even more strongly than in the first film and I was onboard with that. The things she does with her lasso in this movie are simply amazing, it really has become an extension of her. She also learns a new ability thanks to Steve, what some may find convenient (there are many convenient things in this film) but I thought it was a neat and thoughtful way to explain this ability. I think for a brief second there I was reminded of Smith's Bagger Vance giving Damon's Junuh some words of wisdom ( The Legend of Bagger Vance). This is definitely one of the best scenes of the movie and it plays to John Murphy's "Sunshine" (I'll come back to this). Besides this contribution, Steve is mostly along for the ride in this movie but it's just great to see him interact with Diana as their chemistry is overflowing. It's true that the fish-out-of-water cliché is used in this movie again but Steve is looking at things in admiration and wonder at how far the human race has come. On hindsight, it was a bit of a missed opportunity that he didn't read up on the 70 years he missed or tried to find out what became of his friends. Presumably Diana told him off screen. As for the antagonists, overall they do fare a little better than in the first movie. Pascal's Maxwell Lord is something of a lovable rogue/conman despite the crazy shenanigans he pulls and it's to the movie's credit that I cared a little bit about his relationship with his son, who only showed up in a handful of scenes. Pascal does a good job portraying that descent into madness although it does come off as over-the-top at times. The movie makes the mistake, to my mind, of introducing his backstory at the end of the film to redeem his character and humanize him more (some of it works) instead of organically showing it through his interactions with his son, drawing parallelisms to his relationship with his own father. Why is this story not here? Because the film has antagonist #2, Barbara Minerva, and this cannot be overstated: this movie could've done better without her. How do I know that? Because you could take her out of the film with minimal changes to the script (to be fair, Steve could be taken out too but we'll get there). You know, come to think of it, her character kind of reminds me of Uma Thurman's Pamela Isley in Batman and Robin because her 'arc,' if you could call it that, is exactly the same, with the only difference that at least Pamela had the excuse that her mentor tried to kill her. Minerva goes power crazy in no time flat to the point I didn't really care for her as a character; she could've died and I wouldn't have shed a single tear for her. Had she not been in the movie we would've had more time to fully flesh out the character of Maxwell Lord into a great antagonist. Alas, that is not the case, but Pascal's Lord is still the better of Wonder Woman's antagonists thus far. Writing
This movie also suffers from a string of 'conveniences' that are the hallmark of lazy writing. We need some piece of information? Some guy, quite literally, just so happens to have an ancient book (excellently preserved) that gives you the answer. Maxwell needs a specific weapon for his plans? It's lying in plain sight in the room he just walked into. Need a ride? Well, apparently museums have fully fuelled and ready-to-go fighter jets that Steve somehow knows how to fly. There are more but I think I've made my point: the script is underwhelming. This is made even more evident with the resolution of the conflict which, put bluntly, does not make sense. Without spoiling much, the logical thing that should happen does not happen and the movie just concludes without even addressing it. I probably wouldn't have liked it if it had but at least it would've been consistent. It's as if the world had remained the same after the invasion in the first Avengers movie, it does not compute. Similarly to 2017's Wonder Woman, Diana tries to leave us with a message, going so far as to look straight at the camera, and if it half-works it's only because of Gadot's powerful delivery and the excellent track choice (which I'm almost certain I've heard somewhere else before and am not entirely sure it's Zimmer's). The half that doesn't work is precisely that Diana's gambit would succeed 100%. It's highly likely the script went through some revisions as the film was about to wrap up hinting at Diana hooking up with 'some other guy' but ultimately decided not to despite it being clearly set up earlier in the movie. Personally, I was quite glad this didn't happen but I wouldn't have minded several more revisions to the script in more important areas. Music
"But what about the music? Surely that's a net positive, right? Hans Zimmer is back, baby!" Yeah, about that, while there are certainly some good-to-great tracks (mostly the ones towards the end, like "The Beauty In What Is," "Truth," and "Lost and Found") I have to say that Rupert Gregson-Williams' score is still, to my mind, the superior one overall. Perhaps it's because he had the advantage of composing the score for the first movie, deftly turning Wonder Woman's theme (composed by Zimmer and Junkie XL) into the score's throughline, perhaps it's because the first movie is so much better and thus Williams' score and the movie feed off each other, but the fact remains that I could listen to Williams' score on its own several times over whereas I may find myself re-listening to a handful of Zimmer's tracks. I can't shake the feeling that Zimmer wanted to start over with the soundtrack for Wonder Woman 1984 as there is no continuity from Williams' work and if there is it's barely there. Even Zimmer's own Wonder Woman theme makes a single appearance in "Open Road." While a different medium, this is similar to what happened with the score for the new Tomb Raider games: there were no clear themes set up in the first score and nothing was carried over in the next instalments. Something similar happened with the score for the Harry Potter movies which lost more of the John Williams' magic from one movie to the next. PS: After I wrote this, I found out that Zimmer also used the "Beautiful Lie" track from his Batman v Superman score during the final confrontation between Diana and Max. While not exactly a throughline (as the music was used during the Martha scene) it's still a beautiful track that works very well in this scene so credit where credit's due. Conclusion The obvious takeaway is that Wonder Woman 1984 isn't as good as its predecessor. It makes the mistake of trying to cram a little too much into the movie. That opening scene in Themyscira is great and I'm always up for more Amazons but what did it really add to the movie? The story should have focused on the journeys of Diana and Maxwell, and it could've even focused more on the latter as Diana's journey consists of, not surprisingly, coming to terms with Steve's death and letting him go. I'm thinking Patty Jenkins may have jumped the gun a little too early bringing back Trevor for the second instalment as opposed to a third one. Additionally, as I mentioned before, Cheetah is superfluous in this movie and the writing of Minerva's character failed to convince me otherwise. At present, Wonder Woman 1984 has an IMDb rating of 6.3 and a RT score of 67/74 (Critics/Audience) and I can't say I disagree with that. In fact, I may be leaning more towards a 6 than a 7 but I've only just watched it last night.
Should you watch this movie?
Well, I certainly wouldn't subscribe to HBO Max because of it but it's certainly cheaper than watching it on cinemas. It's a much better deal than Mulan was at any rate. If you love the character of Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot doesn't disappoint and Pedro "This is the way" Pascal does a good job with the script he's given. There's also a nice little cameo I won't spoil. If you place more value on a tight script, you'd better look elsewhere.
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Post by House Targaryen on Dec 27, 2020 0:12:34 GMT
Watched this yesterday and then today. I'm a big fan of the first movie and Gal being Diana but I'm sad to say this movie falls way short of the first one. Which is rather disappointing with the all the setbacks and the wait that us fans had to endure. Its sad to see the rating and reviews dropping from what they were this morning and even yesterday. But it is what it is. I gave the first movie a 9.5, this one, squeaks by with a 7. It doesn't live up to the hype of the first movie trailer Some opinions and ideas below. It is sad but realistic that we find Diana shut off from others. She helps those who need it but she doesn't have any friends. Which is understandable, she's immortal, to a point, while her friends are immortal. She has to watch them grow old throughout the past 60 odd years and die, yet she doesn't age. Having this happen too often would start taking a toll on her heart. Even immortals have fragile hearts like us mortals. Which is why she is obsessed with her work, helping those in need but doesn't let any one get close to her, especially romantically since Steve's death.
And now the Steve appearance. Being a believer of reincarnation, I'll explain my opinion on this. Steve's soul/spirit currently resides in what we'll call CS, Current Soul's body. When Diana made her wish, Steve's soul took over CS's body and the CS was put in hibernation. And since this is old Steve's soul he wouldn't have any idea on our current affairs, technology, etc, thus why Diana has to explain things to him. Old Steve's soul have the memories of CS. When Diana renounced her wish, old Steve's soul returned to being locked away and the CS returning and not remembering the events that took place. At the end of the film when they meet, Diana keeps looking at him, the attraction is there because she knows this person is the reincarnation of Steve.
Cheetah. Yes, I believe they tried too hard to copy Michelle Pfeiffer's nerdy, insecure Selena Kyle into Catwoman. Minus a lot of believable backstory and character development. Diana and her only know each other for a few days, yet they both act like they are the best of friends. More believable if they known each other for a year or more.
WTF is with the guys hitting on the girls every chance they get in this movie? Sounds like more woke shit, I don't remember guys being such horny dogs in the 80s, and yes I would know, that is my "time" period.
Pedro did a decent job with Lord. I don't know much about Lord as a DC villain so I'll just leave it at that.
Han's Zimmer did a good job with the soundtrack, not a masterful piece like Dark Phoenix, but good. He is perfect for superhero soundtracks. And to think he said Batman v Superman would have been his last. IMBD currently at 6.1. Hate to see this drop in the 5s or less
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2020 5:34:12 GMT
Just watched the first Gal Gadot Wonder Woman movie last night and I cannot believe IMDB give it a 7.4 and Rotten Tomatoes gave it 85%. Maybe my expectations on what I had heard was too high or I must have just not been in the mood as the movie was at best a 6 out of 10 for me. Some of the acting and the story were just awful. Anyway not going to waste anymore time or effort writing about it. Edit, my bad, thought you were talking about WW84 realised you're talking about the first one.
I thought the first one was entertaining, I enjoyed it but didn't take much from it.
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The second one is a solid 6/10 for me. I liked the premise of how she wins at the end but there weren't a lot of strong themes beyond the central idea.
WW84 spoiler Also wondering why it's okay to basically rape a complete stranger so long as it's Wonderwoman and her soulmate in the drivers seat. She literally steals some random guys body, puts her deceased ex-lover in him and bangs him. That's some Dollhouse level wrong there that's completely lost on the creators of the film. A lot of people went, "yeah this okay". It's not okay.
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Post by KaiserShep on Dec 29, 2020 18:20:17 GMT
Got around to watching Soul, and I loved it quite a bit. Of course, trash rags like io9 just had to race bait on it.
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Post by Noxluxe on Jan 3, 2021 7:47:01 GMT
Edit, my bad, thought you were talking about WW84 realised you're talking about the first one. I thought the first one was entertaining, I enjoyed it but didn't take much from it. ***
The second one is a solid 6/10 for me. I liked the premise of how she wins at the end but there weren't a lot of strong themes beyond the central idea.
WW84 spoiler Also wondering why it's okay to basically rape a complete stranger so long as it's Wonderwoman and her soulmate in the drivers seat. She literally steals some random guys body, puts her deceased ex-lover in him and bangs him. That's some Dollhouse level wrong there that's completely lost on the creators of the film. A lot of people went, "yeah this okay". It's not okay.
Meh. It's pretty obvious that there just wasn't a lot of thought put into the movie, and they didn't make the rape connection because their writing was too complex for themselves or thought nobody would pick up on it. I doubt anyone really thinks that it actually endorses such a thing. It's definitely a fuck-up and totally undermines whatever theme or moral the story might have had, but getting hysterical about "problematic" things in movies and entertainment is something I wish we could all just move away from. The thing aside, Gadot's wooden acting, the weird and incomprehensible story and the fights which were even more stupid and didn't look anywhere near as good as they did in the first one to make up for it were the main impressions I took away. 4 out of 10 for me, where the first one was maybe 6.5/10.
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Post by Obadiah on Jan 30, 2021 3:02:48 GMT
Caught John Carpenter's The Thing at the theatre this week. AMC is running a lot of classics because not much is opening, and when I saw this listed I jumped at the opportunity!
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Post by skekSil on Jan 30, 2021 14:18:48 GMT
Why does everything has to be a competition?
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Post by Obadiah on Feb 3, 2021 15:46:28 GMT
I saw Wonder Woman 1984 on HBOMax upon release in December and liked it so much that I wanted to check it out at the theatre. I figured by now it was COVID safe enough and (yep!) Tuesday night at the nearest AMC Theatre IMAX that is still open was empty! Lots of theatres here in Northern VA are either closed, like Regal, or just shut down during the week because of poor business. I loved it even more the 2nd time. Perhaps, the pumped up theatre sound mixing helped? Certain sequences like the prologue just seemed to work a lot better on the big screen with the studio audio - particularly all that sweeping lush landscape with the Ninja Warrior acrobatics and CGI enhanced athletics, that before seemed to drag on my television. It also helps that I wasn't nearly as hung up on certain plot points like the sex/rape discussion, and wish/justice fulfillment being a bad thing, and really liked its magical fairly-tale vibe. In fact, on 2nd viewing I loved Kristen Wiig's Cheetah even more. She did an exceptional job channeling everyman good natured people the world over struggling to make it, who are suddenly given an opportunity, only to be told by those in power "she wasn't ready" or she should "go back struggling" because her power is causing chaos. Her bitter reaction and resentment was completely understandable, but more importantly palpable for her scenes as the 2nd half of the film gets going. There's a couple of confrontational scenes where she just throws Diana's entitlement right back in her face for having so much (she lives in the Watergate Hotel for crying out loud) and not appreciating it. I honestly think hers and Pedro Pascal’s Max Lord are two of the best super-villain performances I’ve seen, properly grounded in an origin story and hammed up to 120% at the movie's climax. I read somewhere someone compared WW84 to how bad Superman 3 was. I liked WW84, but on a 2nd viewing I very much see the resemblance. In fact, it's almost like the WW84 writer was a superfan of Superman 3 and 4, realized those movies were kinda weak, but liked the themes anyway, and so set about writing a decent version of those two. Thus we get: - the campy/humorous Wonder-Woman-saving-people-intro in DC, - Diana pining for her lost Steve, the way Clarke was for his lost Lois from Superman 2 - she goes up against a mirror version of herself as Cheetah, - we get the megalomaniac businessman Max Lord as the antagonist, - the cheap looking rock that turns out to be Wonder Woman's "green kryptonite", and - nuclear proliferation and an "almost" exchange
A word about the special effects. People have pointed out how bad they look in certain scenes - I think the stand out bad effect might have been Gal Gadot's hair and motion as she's flying. Man of Steel did flight exceptionally well so we know I can be done properly, but I think the scenes in Wonder Woman were intentionally given a retro downgrade, to look like they were made in the 80s like the original Superman, just with the added soundtrack to carry it. Not much of a review, but just some random thoughts I had.
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Post by Obadiah on Feb 15, 2021 14:04:27 GMT
It's been a helluva month so far for good shit at the theatre:
Judas and the Black Messiah
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Post by Obadiah on Feb 18, 2021 14:32:43 GMT
I saw that AMC was showing IMAX 4K remasters of the Lord of the Rings trilogy over the past two weeks. I went to see those, sticking to weekdays to avoid crowds, not that there is much of one these days but the first Saturday showing had about 60 people. Turns out, my theatre was only showing them for 2 weeks (today being the last day). So, yeah, go check 'em out if you're a fan, don't mind masking up for 3 hours at a time, and don't mind picking a seat down front or off in the corner to avoid the 15 other people that show up and sit in the center row.
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Post by sentinel87 on Feb 19, 2021 1:27:18 GMT
I use to live in Japan but never paid much attention to anime, so it’s never been something I’ve been interested in. I vaguely know it exist and can recognize some characters but that’s about it. So I almost passed this movie by when I saw the cover. Ironically it was the cover that also drew me in, it’s fantastic looking. The film Your Name (Kimi no Na wa). It's apparently very popular and I see why now.
I watched the dub and enjoyed it fine.
Overall the story sort of has a bit of everything in it; coming of age, romance and disaster. The story revolves around a girl from rural prefecture of Gifu and a boy from Tokyo. They somehow start swapping bodies and comedy ensues. Eventually there is a big reveal that is hinted at through out the film and the gears switch to a disaster flick. There were some little things throughout the film that reminded me of life in Japan that got a chuckle out of me.
It also feels like nearly every frame could be a painting. It really is great looking movie. I highly recommend this movie. Even if you are like me and pass by on anime or animated films in general.
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Post by Patricia on Mar 14, 2021 11:37:37 GMT
I rewatched this movie again and my only wish would be that they made a remastered Blu-Ray copy of this.
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Post by skekSil on Mar 14, 2021 19:35:53 GMT
I rewatched this movie again and my only wish would be that they made a remastered Blu-Ray copy of this. Did you know this is a remake of a French movie?
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