Hot Heart Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Such a silly film, and all the more hilarious for it. It does a really neat job with the misunderstandings and resulting ridiculous situations. Alan Tudyk is always good and Tyler Labine was too. Plus, the bad dude does a really effective creepy, young Sean Penn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 I love that movie haha. Their unknowingly creepy laugh is fucking brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 I'd love to have a Shadowpact film. Heck I'd love a Zatanna film for obvious reasons. DC films I'd like to see - Adam Strange, Justice League Dark and Booster Gold. If I am allowed to produce though, I'd make a film centered around Spider Jerusalem. On topic, I haven't seen anything I'd recommend in the past 2 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Everything Must Go. I must admit, I was expecting something a little bit lighter. I wasn't expecting a laugh-out-loud comedy by any means, but I didn't think it would be about alcoholism and such. Still, it's a good watch and Ferrell does a decent job, even if perhaps someone not quite so 'mellow' might have been a better choice for the character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Monsters University. Better than I expected. The film does feel slowish in the middle, but has a nice ending to bring it back to the good category, as it could have easily slid into an okay movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 I wanna see that but all my college buddies have graduated outside of one who never goes to movies so I'll only be able to watch films on weekends that I visit my hometown haha. Oh well. There's always waiting for the movie to have a cam stream online... ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Man of Steel Superman pretty much sucks as a superhero, so going in you can't expect too much from him. I think Snyder made him somewhat likeable and more "human" than his general holier-than-thou sort of attitude in many other incarnations. So quite an achievement there. Pretty much any major issue/"plot holes" with the film are generally faults of the source material such as why Jor-El n Lara-El aren't with him, or how "red sun" = "laser vision and flight". Reveal hidden contents Well apart from the fact that at the end of the film he'd destroyed Fortress of Solitude/scout ship, the Crystal of Knowledge/control key, and his baby ship all within about 5 minutes of each other. Oh and seemingly killed Emil Hamilton* too. Destruction was a bit OTT but several kryptonians (I liked how Faora moved when fighting) duking it out they're not going to be all dainty and leave no damage behind. Shame no kneeling was demanded, and no ghosts of caesar sighted. *any other smallville watchers spot that MoS Emil Hamilton had the Smallville Emil Hamilton as an assistant? Overall an enjoyable film, few niggles but overall it is a pretty decent Superman film. The Animatrix Hadn't watched it in a while, we randomly put it on yesterday. I think the idea being it was just bunch of shorts so no time dedication. We ended up watching the lot. Love em all, some weirdness here n there, different visuals styles, neat stories to be told and some good extended universe stuff for the films. I strongly recommended hunting it down, it's usually going cheap. The Matrix Kind of an inevitability I guess . Basically Perry White** teaches Constantine that the world isn't real (dude has seen hell, he kinda knows), and thus they go and fight Elrond (who wants out). But what'll really bake your noodle later is if Neo would have knocked the vase if the Oracle had said nothing. Reveal hidden contents Right, because it turns out some people don't understand the Oracle's prophecy; Basically Neo/Anderson who goes sees the Oracle isn't The One. But, he will be; "you're waiting for something, your next life maybe". Then Agent Smith kills Neo/Anderson. He is now a dead man "The oracle said I would fall in love with a dead man, and he would be The One". Then, boom in kicks the "next life", and hola he's controlling bullets and destroying agents as Neo/The One. The Oracle pretty much explains the entire latte half of the movie, if folks weren't all like "man, those cookies look good" and listened. **Laurence Fishburne has certainly bulked out since his morpheus days, but he carries it well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 On 6/24/2013 at 3:10 PM, Deanb said: Reveal hidden contents "The oracle said I would fall in love with a dead man, and he would be The One". Then, boom in kicks the "next life", and hola he's controlling bullets and destroying agents as Neo/The One. That's not what Trinity says, she says Reveal hidden contents "The Oracle told me I would fall in love and that that man, the man I loved, would be The One." She never says anything about a dead man. Also, spoiler tags about a 14 year old movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 I swear there was something about being dead in that. My apologies there, but everything else oracle prophesied is pretty spot on to the point of him having to die to become The One. And spoilers cos from impression I've gotten from some people, they didn't know about that part of the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 I saw "This is the End" and it was not only a very funny movie, and a good disaster movie, but it made me think a lot about the end of the world. If a comedy can make you think outside of the film in a context, no matter how absurd, it makes me appreciate the movie a lot more. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 On 6/24/2013 at 3:40 PM, Deanb said: I swear there was something about being dead in that. My apologies there, but everything else oracle prophesied is pretty spot on to the point of him having to die to become The One. And spoilers cos from impression I've gotten from some people, they didn't know about that part of the film. Yeah, from googling you're not the only person who misheard it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 The Bling Ring. A movie in which everyone is awful and you cannot root for the celebrity 'victims' nor the starfucking rich kid burglars. Not brilliant, not all that deep (I think This Is The End has a more cogent and engaging critique of celebrity), but well worth it. Man of Steel was awful, and I am sad that this is the version of Super Man we'll have going forward and that Zack Snyder will continue to make movies. I can forgive the Comic Book Plot Holes , but I think it was a mistake stacking Supes against Zod in his first movie. The conflict in Supes should be about how he restrains himself and uses his near-infinite power judiciously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Then we'd have gotten another Lex Luthor movie, and pardon my French but fuck that shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 I'm of two minds. On one hand I think for a first movie it was kind of OTT as a bad guy. But on the other hand, last Superman film he was up against a bald man with a shiv. Only human adversary worth a damn to Superman is Batman, and they're sure as hell not bringing those two out on Superman's first JLA outing. Otherwise you've got folks like Darksied, who is once again kind of OTT, or Bizzarro who wouldn't carry a film on his own and wouldn't be a good origin baddy. As I've said before, what they really need to do is look into the What-Ifs/Elseworlds. But those are standalone and hard to turn into big team up films or spin-off into trilogies+. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 I'm sure there are plenty of great villains other than Luthor who could induce both fun action scenes and moral struggles. Hell, they coulda done it better with Zod in this movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 GOH have you liked ANY of the summer blockbuster films? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Supermans rogues gallery kinda sucks. Zod is interesting as he's a fellow kryptonian, and in this film he's done pretty well and you can somewhat sympathise with him and his reasonings for doing what he's doing. Luthor is interesting because he has no super-powers, but due to wealth, connections and intelligence he has "power" in the same sense banks do, and you can't just throw kiloton punches at a bank. So usually requires other ways. And in an origin story an enemy that you can't use super strength, flight and laser vision against would be a bit dull. Could have had Doomsday. But killing Superman in his origin movie would have been a bold move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 On 6/24/2013 at 3:10 PM, Deanb said: Man of Steel Reveal hidden contents *any other smallville watchers spot that MoS Emil Hamilton had the Smallville Emil Hamilton as an assistant? Reveal hidden contents I have no idea about any Smallville stuff but I think the (German?) Kryptonian (the scientist/doctor one) had played an aged Lex Luthor clone in the show. Plus, his character has a bit of backstory too. People who have seen the film may gain more from reading this. I found it funny seeing 'TV actor outpost' in the Arctic where there's two BSG actors, Chris Meloni and Richard Schiff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Ah shit you're correct, I thought he looked familiar Reveal hidden contents He was only in for a single episode, and in the tenth series too, unlike Emil who was as semi-regular. Looking at his IMDB page I'd also recognise him as a minor Observer from Fringe, and he's also in Once Upon a Time too. Trivia: I'd noted the moon, but as I'm not super into Superman comics I'd not been familiar with the significance. Also holy fuck Lois was in Smallville too? I guess it was over 10 years ago (and many years since my last watching of the first series), and she was in a fat suit for most of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 I'm predicting Luthor and Brainiac for movie 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Yeah I'd say Luthor for movie 2 and maybe Doomsday for movie 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 So I saw Monsters University for free thanks to a promo. It was better than I was expecting it to be, but still worlds apart from the first one. It's hard to describe, really. While the movie lacks the creativity and heart of the original, it's still decently written and it did make me laugh fairly often. I guess the easiest way to say it would be to say that it's enjoyable as a family movie, but it's not a "Pixar movie." It just doesn't have that little bit extra that you find in movies like Up, Wall-e, or even the original Monsters Inc. Then again, I doubt anyone was expecting this to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 The umbrella movie short was quite nice though. Great graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 No argument here. For a minute there I thought it was live action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Pretty sure Pixar hasn't made a Pixar movie for a while now. And sorry Brave is not Pixar good, just good. Its middle act and conclusion left much to be desired. There's a reason their best movies are stuff like Toy Story, Wall-E and Monster Inc. I believe that during the marketing of Wall-E they were saying how early on they had one of their first idea meet-ups and a lot of their great movie ideas came from that first one. If anything I'm more interested in the Disney animated movies over the Pixar ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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