The Movie/Film Thread

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Worth viewing for Alan Rickman's performance alone, he steals this movie.   Over the top performance (in a good way)  but the film's an old fashioned swashbuckling theatrical romp anyway so it's not out of place.  Get the villain right in any story/production and you're on to a good thing.

Fired up this true masterpiece from 1993. Demolition Man.

Just got home from The Batman.

Man, it was good. Saw reviews that said “best Batman film since the Dark Knight “

I’m thinking it might even be better. Long, but didn’t feel it. No wasted scenes, everything moved the plot forward. Absolutely loved it.

I watched "The Green Knight" the other day.
Pretty weird movie, I have to say. Not precicely bad but very weird.

Also, After seeing so many tv shows last year, which were adapted from books but toool A LOT of liberties with the material (e.g. Wheel of Time and Foundation), it's good to see that it happens to movies, too.

I read an interview with David Lowery afterwords where he elaborated on some of the changes he made and, well, some of them are ... weird ... and a bit pretentious to be honest. It seems like he tried to put a very self indulgant spin on the tale but thereby completely disregarded some of the main points the original tried to make. I don't know. IMO, if you are giving your movie the same title, setting and character names as the poem, then stick to it please. If you do want to tell a different tale that involves more of what you want to talk about yourself and is more inspired by the original than being a real adaptation, I think it would be more respectful to also change some of the names (the title at the very least), so that this is clear to the audience ahead of time.

But whatever, it was still a rather good movie IMO, it's just yet another one of those weird rather self-indulgent adaptations. They start getting to me.

Went to see Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Worth the long wait for me, the movie had been postponed due to Covid. Really dark but also some great laughs. The 'beasts' play a tinier part in this movie but they were the ones who took care of the lighter stuff in the story.

Just watched I Care a Lot on Netflix, and that's a wasted 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.

I mean, how do you manage to make a bad movie starring Peter Dinklage and Rosamund Pike? Even after an engaging opening 15-20 minutes of the movie? They somehow managed to do so here, with this going completely off the rails about halfway through. And since the main character is explicitly supposed to be a terrible person who steals from the elderly, you don't even care enough to stick around and find out what happens to her in the end. Yikes.

One of the worst movies I've seen in a long, long time. Didn't even watch the last 20 minutes or so, because I simply couldn't get myself to care.

Christopher Walken as Emperor is an interesting choise.

I'm still waiting for a sequel to ALITA: Battle Angel and the 2018 v of Tomb Raider (with Alicia Vikander)