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Posted by SYSTEM-J on Mar-15-2018 08:15:

It would be a massive spoiler to say when.


Posted by Silky Johnson on Mar-15-2018 14:19:

I was so happy to see Rockwell and McDormand both take home Oscars for their performances. Especially Rockwell.

I've watched The Shape of Water, Call Me By Your Name, Baby Driver, and I, Tonya all in the past couple weeks. I didn't think I would like SoW, but oh wow was I wrong. And Baby Driver was really awesome too. I had heard about it being unique, and that the editing was top notch, but not one person who raved about it mentioned how integral music was to the previous points. Loved it.


Posted by planetaryplayer on Mar-15-2018 14:25:

i tried to watch the Ship of Wango but i had a back ache so i had it replaced with a dorsal fin. I'm more aerodynamic when i run hunched over


Posted by DJ RANN on Mar-15-2018 15:24:

I honestly can't figure out why you bother to post.


Posted by ControlFreak18 on Mar-15-2018 16:39:

I saw some theaters were going to be playing a marathon (31 hours!) of all the marvel universe movies before the release of whatever the next one is. My question- does anybody still watch them? I can’t remember the last one I saw in theaters, and I’d have to go back even further to remember one I really enjoyed.


Posted by Silky Johnson on Mar-15-2018 16:46:

I recently saw Black Panther and it was so good!


Posted by ControlFreak18 on Mar-15-2018 17:20:

Was it really though, or is that white guilt speaking?


Posted by Silky Johnson on Mar-15-2018 19:44:

Lol ffs.


Posted by Singularity55 on Mar-19-2018 10:00:

Just saw Django unchained. It was pretty decent... Tarantino has a unique style. I kind of feel like GTA 5 pulls off that sort of thing better than he does nowadays though.


Posted by Redd on Apr-10-2018 11:43:

I recommend The Vanishing of Sidney Hall and You Were Never Really Here


Posted by DJ RANN on Apr-16-2018 18:34:

So I finally watched Alien:Covenant yesterday.


SPOILERS AHEAD
















Perfect sunday afternoon entertainment. Was it amazing? No

Was it a total abomination worthy of all the 1/10 votes on IMDB? Don't be daft.

It was probably 4.5 or 5/10.

Yes, there's plenty about it that doesn't make sense at all (I have no idea why pathogen bombs were dropped or how he even got around to dropping them on the engineer colony, or what that humanoid looking alien was about) but was it big budget, slickly produced sicfi that jotted along at a decent pace? Yep.

Fassbender acted circles around most of the cast and it's beautifully shot in places. It does feel however as if some of the film was palmed off to a sub director. There's moments of Scott, then there's moments that feel like any other working director.

I will say in hindsight it makes Prometheus look *even* better as it was much more cohesive in aesthetic and atmosphere, and also feel that Scott using 6 different VFX houses for Covenent was a mistake that clearly visible throughout the film.

I doubt I'd watch it again, but I'll gladly say I've seen a dozen other far worse decent budget scifi films. I also think people have a rose tinted nostalgia for the the first Alien(s) films - when the baby alien first pops out of the tummy, it looks like a hand puppet and and speeds across the floor like a muppet running. I actually giggle when I see it now.


Posted by SYSTEM-J on Apr-16-2018 19:06:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
I will say in hindsight it makes Prometheus look *even* better


You've just validated my decision not to bother seeing it when it was in the cinema.

quote:
I also think people have a rose tinted nostalgia for the the first Alien(s) films - when the baby alien first pops out of the tummy, it looks like a hand puppet and and speeds across the floor like a muppet running. I actually giggle when I see it now.


This just in: 39 year old film has dated special effects. Next you'll be telling us that Jaws is overrated because the shark looks fake.


Posted by DJ RANN on Apr-16-2018 19:30:

quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
You've just validated my decision not to bother seeing it when it was in the cinema.


I'd agree that it wasn't worth the price of entry in to cinema but perfectly fine fodder on a large home TV. (and that ** was for you and PKC lol)


quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
This just in: 39 year old film has dated special effects. Next you'll be telling us that Jaws is overrated because the shark looks fake.


Not really, and Jaws is actually a great case in point of the exact opposite; Because the mechanic shark kept breaking down, they could barely show any of it and in the first Jaws you barely ever see the shark until the end...and what you do, looks pretty real. Spielberg said it was a blessing in disguise as it added so much more tension and mystique to the film. That's kinda my point, that Alien had poor animatronics and it showed in graphic detail. The rest of the film is pretty much a masterstroke (even discounting some of the overacting in it by Weaver).


Posted by SYSTEM-J on Apr-16-2018 21:50:

Actually, both films are very similar in that the titular monster is very rarely on screen. The chestburster is on screen for literally about 20 seconds, and the shot of it launching across the table is about a second long. When Bruce the shark finally starts showing his face in detail near the end of Jaws, he's on screen for minutes on end in full daylight and it's just as clearly a rubber animatronic (not to mention unrealistically proportioned) as the chestburster is a puppet. In both cases it doesn't really matter, because the film has earned your belief in the monster by that point.

Alien has actually aged remarkably well on a purely visual level. The cinematography doesn't look dated at all. If you Google random stills, you can see that pretty much every shot still looks fantastic. The only other film I can think of from the 1970s that doesn't clearly look like it was shot in the 1970s is Apocalypse Now. The set design and general mise en scene also holds up brilliantly. Everything you see on screen still looks pretty plausible today in terms of its design, and there are precious few science fiction films from the '70s you can say that about. Probably the only thing that looks dated is "Mother", the supercomputer.


Posted by planetaryplayer on Apr-16-2018 22:37:

The loin king is my favourite porn


Posted by Trance-M on Apr-17-2018 10:38:

The Commuter with Liam Neeson was good entertainment.


Posted by SynthNinja on Jul-28-2018 18:45:

AHh sHeet guys....Who here remember's the Shymalan's Unbreakable with Bruce Willis?

This is where you can fantasize on reality when it comes to evolutionary human like super powers where balance from one end of the spectrum meets the other via Mr Glass and Bruce Willis's character imo. I want to watch split which part of the this universe, so he there too ya'll.


Posted by DJ RANN on Jul-28-2018 19:46:

The funny thing is, I loved Unbreakable when it came out and people generally hated it, and it got pretty panned by the critics.

I thought it was somewhat a perfect Superhero film (although i generally hate them and haven't seen any of the silly Avengers or Marvel commercial products/nonsense being hurled at us).

I hope they stay low key with glass, like Unbreakable was. You didn't really know what it was about until you were in it and I'm worried that the new one is going to be a CGI shitfest all about superpowers.


Posted by SynthNinja on Jul-28-2018 19:57:

I'm with you Rann 100%. I so hate that marvel/dc crap that gets put out nowadays, however this right here is the real deal. So yeah lets hope its good as the first one.


Posted by tranceCDs on Jul-28-2018 20:36:

Unbreakable was great. They tried too hard with Split (very over rated film IMO), and it seems that the only thing that will save Glass is a surprise-twist ending (which is expected).


Posted by WhiteFord86 on Aug-02-2018 06:53:


Posted by Trance-M on Aug-02-2018 19:24:

I watched Avengers: Infinity War, damn what a cool movie.
It totally didn't end like I expect it would. Still there are a lot of questions, definitely one to watch twice.
Hopefully the next one in May 2019 continues where this one ends and answers some questions.


Posted by DJ RANN on Aug-02-2018 21:04:

Serious:

Am I the only person that couldn't give a flying fuck about any of the marvel / dc superhero cash vehicles?


Posted by SYSTEM-J on Aug-02-2018 21:13:

I'd like to say I simply don't give a fuck about them, but in truth I actively despise them. I thought the trend for strip-mining comic books was going to exhaust itself a decade ago when they started adapting comics I'd never heard of, but instead it's only intensified.


Posted by planetaryplayer on Aug-02-2018 22:49:

all super hero movies should be illegal, the best one i seen was one i directed which was a spoof on the dark knight. it was called the black knight with wesley snipes playing mandingo


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