[godfather dust]

(02-21-2019 08:51 AM)Richard Turpin Wrote:  

Anyone who's read my posts knows I've reached my limit with superhero, Marvel and Star Wars movies. I hate them because I love the source material so much.

So imagine my surprise when a friend showed me Joachin Phoenix in the next 'JOKER' movie. This is just a short teaser but that face and that laugh are enough already to awaken the long-dormant fanboy in me;

What do you reckon? Phoenix is a top actor and this performance does it for me. I like the grimy 80's look too.

Wait till it comes out and there's some word out before you see it. There were rumors it's a hit piece on Trump (but that could just be journalists clucking bullshit as always.)

[Richard Turpin]

(02-27-2019 01:32 AM)godfather dust Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 08:51 AM)Richard Turpin Wrote:  

Anyone who's read my posts knows I've reached my limit with superhero, Marvel and Star Wars movies. I hate them because I love the source material so much.

So imagine my surprise when a friend showed me Joachin Phoenix in the next 'JOKER' movie. This is just a short teaser but that face and that laugh are enough already to awaken the long-dormant fanboy in me;

What do you reckon? Phoenix is a top actor and this performance does it for me. I like the grimy 80's look too.

Wait till it comes out and there's some word out before you see it. There were rumors it's a hit piece on Trump (but that could just be journalists clucking bullshit as always.)

Dammit, good call godfather dust. I should have seen it coming, forgot how big Phoenix is on 'social activism'. He's a Bernie fan too. Yep, there's absolutely no way they are not going to crowbar some propaganda into this one.

Oh well, I get to save some more money. There's always a bright side.

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On other movie news, I watched LIFE on Netflix at the weekend. It's basically Gravity crossed with Alien and stars Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and that female singer from The Greatest Showman (not the one with the beard).

It was actually pretty good. The Alien (despite being basically a 'starfish') was pretty menacing and notched up some icky kills. Cast were good and special effects work was top-notch also.

[godfather dust]

The Joker rumor I'm reading says Batman's dad will be based on Trump. Which makes no sense so hopefully it's bullshit because the movie looks really good. A little like "Bloodsucking Freaks" or "To Kill a Chinese Bookie."

[Syberpunk]

(02-27-2019 03:56 AM)Richard Turpin Wrote:  

(02-27-2019 01:32 AM)godfather dust Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 08:51 AM)Richard Turpin Wrote:  

Anyone who's read my posts knows I've reached my limit with superhero, Marvel and Star Wars movies. I hate them because I love the source material so much.

So imagine my surprise when a friend showed me Joachin Phoenix in the next 'JOKER' movie. This is just a short teaser but that face and that laugh are enough already to awaken the long-dormant fanboy in me;

What do you reckon? Phoenix is a top actor and this performance does it for me. I like the grimy 80's look too.

Wait till it comes out and there's some word out before you see it. There were rumors it's a hit piece on Trump (but that could just be journalists clucking bullshit as always.)

Dammit, good call godfather dust. I should have seen it coming, forgot how big Phoenix is on 'social activism'. He's a Bernie fan too. Yep, there's absolutely no way they are not going to crowbar some propaganda into this one.

Oh well, I get to save some more money. There's always a bright side.

------------

On other movie news, I watched LIFE on Netflix at the weekend. It's basically Gravity crossed with Alien and stars Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and that female singer from The Greatest Showman (not the one with the beard).

It was actually pretty good. The Alien (despite being basically a 'starfish') was pretty menacing and notched up some icky kills. Cast were good and special effects work was top-notch also.

I was expecting LIFE to some schlocky sci-fi. It was such a surprise.

LIFE was nightmare fuel like I've rarely seen, great film, genuinely frightening, there is a moment where I literally said "WHAT??!! THE FUCK??!!" in disbelief, out loud to an empty room. You'll know when you see it. Great lovecraftian feel and suspense drawn from it. Great soundtrack. Infinitely better than any Alien film released in decades, (even though I didn't think of Alien when watching it, I was thinking of the Thing). It stuck to one thing and did it well, gradually building. Like the best horror films it almost feels like its not.

Astronauts from the ISS capture a soil sample that has come back from Mars is the premise.

[JustinJack]

(02-06-2019 06:11 AM)infinitejest Wrote:  

Watched a great film from the nineties the other night, Falling Down starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. Douglas is an average guy who finally snaps on a particularly rough day. He sets out on an odyssey across LA to see his daughter on her birthday and give her a gift. Along the way he encounters some of the city's human trash and the increasingly unhinged manner in which he deals with them is dark yet hilarious. The film is a black comedy as much as it is a thriller. Duvall is his foil, a man we see in the film's opening traffic jam who is able to keep his cool and laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. He's got his own issues, including his own washed up crazy cat-lady of a wife, but his actions throughout the film show another path you can take in the hell that modern day life can be.

The film has many redpill moments. In an early scene, Douglas calls his ex-wife and their conversation tells us everything we need to know about his current lot in life. She tells him "I pay rent for the house now" and we know he is just another man divorce raped and defeated by the system. He can't even see his daughter because his ex-wife claims he is a violent man and has a restraining order placed against him. Yet when the police ask if he ever hurt her or their daughter, she has nothing to say.

The film feels particularly prophetic now, as many of America's cities continue to decline into urban shitholes and more and more "economically unviable" men continue to read My Stepmom manga and snap and go on mass shooting sprees. I visited LA and SF last year and at times these cities felt like a classed up version of the film's nineties urban wasteland. During the day vagrants wander the street, high outta their mind muttering to themselves and spazzing out while at night they all set up tents and camp under the freeway overpass. But hey, you can walk into a classy, upscale restaurant and pay $20 for an appetizer and ask to be served water, so progress right?

I was thinking that this is probably a film that never gets made today. Looking up some contemporary views of it and seeing the usual leftist buzzwords like 'racist' and 'white-privilege' wasn't surprising. Renowned film critic Tasha Robinson of the AVClub called it her most hated film of the nineties. Reading her academic jargon and conclusion that it was a "profoundly hateful film" you know she completely missed the point and couldn't take away her bias to view it as anything other than an angry white middle-class male movie. I found it quite tragic by the end. Something was fundamentally rotten with modern society to produce so many broken individuals like we meet in the film, and it hasn't gotten any better since then. Tasha is wrong (but you probably already knew that). This is a great film, highly recommended watch.

The villain was justified in almost every decision he made (His uncle killed his father and just left him abandoned in America). He also beat the black panther for the mantle even though there was outside interference for the black panther's favor (Forest Whitaker stepping into the fight and the other tribe saving the black panther from death when he is thrown over the waterfall).

[jcrew247]

I liked the movie The Lover with Jane March.
Very romantic and set in Vietnam!

[debeguiled]

(03-05-2019 07:07 PM)jcrew247 Wrote:  

I liked the movie The Lover with Jane March.
Very romantic and set in Vietnam!

Check age of consent laws in your country before watching.

[BlastbeatCasanova]

I saw Alita: Battle Angel a few weekends ago. I like sci-fi/cyborg dystopia stories and feel like they need to be seen on the big screen, but I was hesitant and expecting a “strong female/grrrrl power message.”

Thankfully, this wasn’t the case. She’s a fucking cyborg after all so there wasn’t any room for a feminist agenda. She’s also obsessed with the male character and after getting a new cyborg body she makes her figure more feminine and her boobs a little bigger. It was a pretty entertaining flick with some sick action IMO

[Oberrheiner]

I probably don't want to see it, too afraid it's going to spoil the memories I have of the books.

Does Hugo steal spines ?
Does Makaku eat brains .. ?

[BlastbeatCasanova]

^I never read the series, but safe to say it probably deviates from the source material a bit. The motorball scenes were sick though

[WalterBlack]

New Doom Movie - this looks fucking awful. It has 1K likes vs 18K dislikes:

They've also made the main character a woman.

[Wreckingball]

You guys watched The Mule with Clint Eastwood?

Great movie. Clint is and will be one of the top actors of the big screen. Great acting and charisma.

[Richard Turpin]

(03-13-2019 02:45 AM)WalterBlack Wrote:  

New Doom Movie - this looks fucking awful. It has 1K likes vs 18K dislikes:

They've also made the main character a woman.

That Doom movie looks like absolute dogshit. Why do they persist in doing these video-to-movies so badly?! I get that they see it as an easy way of cashing in on an established brand but fanboys are actually the most likely to hate their beloved games being made into crap.

My son loves the 'Monster Hunter' franchise of games and he was mortified that they were talking about doing a movie!

I showed him the trailer for the new Netflix 'The Witcher' series, with Henry Cavill in the lead role and he just said; 'That's not Geralt, he needs more scars. They're going to ruin it'.

I actually watched 'Assassins Creed' the other day hoping it wouldn't be as bad as they said it was. But it was awful. Depressingly awful. It had Fassbender and Jeremy Irons in it for fucksakes, they should have done better.

[Prufrock]

A couple of days ago I watched Scorsese's The Color of Money. The last time I watched it was about twenty years ago. One thing that struck me immediately was the supreme self-confidence possessed by Tom Cruise. He is almost too over the top to root for, but one can't help but root for him anyway. It reminds me of young Marlon Brando energy.

I suppose I would probably feel the same confidence if I banged peak Rebecca DeMornay on the L Train... but I digress.

Great soundtrack as well. The Color of Money is a total relic of the 80s, but manages to retain a certain timeless element as well. Oh, and there is also wisdom with age Paul Newman and prime Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio...

[Simeon_Strangelight]

(03-13-2019 04:17 AM)Richard Turpin Wrote:  

(03-13-2019 02:45 AM)WalterBlack Wrote:  

New Doom Movie - this looks fucking awful. It has 1K likes vs 18K dislikes:

They've also made the main character a woman.

That Doom movie looks like absolute dogshit. Why do they persist in doing these video-to-movies so badly?! I get that they see it as an easy way of cashing in on an established brand but fanboys are actually the most likely to hate their beloved games being made into crap.

My son loves the 'Monster Hunter' franchise of games and he was mortified that they were talking about doing a movie!

I showed him the trailer for the new Netflix 'The Witcher' series, with Henry Cavill in the lead role and he just said; 'That's not Geralt, he needs more scars. They're going to ruin it'.

I actually watched 'Assassins Creed' the other day hoping it wouldn't be as bad as they said it was. But it was awful. Depressingly awful. It had Fassbender and Jeremy Irons in it for fucksakes, they should have done better.

The trailer looks like something shot on a Scyfy-TV-series budget but cheaper. Plus they picked a non-charismatic strange-looking woman as the lead? Funny how she at one time holds a weapon that should weigh more than she does. Women will be lousy in combat even if we equip them all with exo-skeleton-combat-suits. They will remain rare exceptions. Aliens 2 did the female troopers best - the women who would choose to go to combat would be hyper-masculine outliers - and even then based on all we know about human nature it's a bad decision.

Those movies are not made for art or even money anymore. It's all subservient to one:

"How can we do a movie that those racist chauvinist people go pay for while we insult them, tell them they are racist, tell them that all men suck, tell them that women and all POCs are the bestest thing ever? How can we cram as much propaganda in it so long as they keep on paying for it?|"

Essentially it has all become a tool of just finding out how far they can go - , Farce Awakens - just good amount of shit - they lapped it up and asked for more despite the movie being crap, Last Jedi too far - too much shit. Since Netflix hates and wants to destroy Western civilization, then you will see Geralt become either the uber-cuck or cuck-servative or destroyed one way or another. Henry Cavill is cool, he knew that Superman was shit as he wanted to play the real Superman - the man of light and goodness from the 1970s. I am sure that he will do his best, but we will see whether those morons will destroy him on the fly or cut down with the crap to make it more palatable.

[budoslavic]

"John Wick Chpater 3: Parabellum" will be out in theaters on May 17.

[CaptainChardonnay]

Just watched Triple Frontier. It was entertaining.

[JustinJack]

Before people say 'muh gay agenda', I'll just say that it was pretty well known that Freddie was gay (in fact I'm shocked people didn't pick it up sooner), and the movie did a good job keeping that in the background and making it more about the music and the growth of the band than his subsequent AIDS diagnosis and the gay lifestyle.

Rami Malek did an absolute bang-up job playing Freddie, singing like Freddie Mercury can't be easy but he nailed it.

But where the film struggles is that it didn't give too much backstory into the rest of the band, and the pacing was off - it was basically Freddie meets Smile, joins them, struggles a little and then all of a sudden this doesnt feel like me manga they're writing the track the film is named for, then Freddie spirals out of control before the film ends with the performance at Live Aid (regardless of what you think about Live Aid - it's the reason we have brainless celebrities spouting SJW buzzwords and stances today).

Also playing is that while I like Queen, I don't love Queen - good band, but not nearly as good as say Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin, about equal to the Eagles, but definitely better than Aerosmith.

[Prufrock]

My personal most anticipated movie of the year has to be Dragged Across Concrete, featuring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn. It was written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, who also created the classics Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99.

The trailer for Dragged Across Concrete reminds me of something that the great Elmore Leonard might have written.

Well, don't ask me, but I might have heard that the t*rr-ent for Dragged... was made available earlier today. In any case, I look forward to seeing it.

[The Stronger Sex]

(03-21-2019 07:08 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:  

Just watched Triple Frontier. It was entertaining.

I really want to watch this one except for Ben Affleck. He's a real water cocktail.

1/2 Water
1/2 Water
Mix

[Malone]

(03-22-2019 06:17 AM)The Stronger Sex Wrote:  

(03-21-2019 07:08 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:  

Just watched Triple Frontier. It was entertaining.

I really want to watch this one except for Ben Affleck. He's a real water cocktail.

1/2 Water
1/2 Water
Mix

It was pretty meh, you can skip it.

[Syberpunk]

(03-22-2019 05:27 AM)Prufrock Wrote:  

My personal most anticipated movie of the year has to be Dragged Across Concrete, featuring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn. It was written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, who also created the classics Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99.

The trailer for Dragged Across Concrete reminds me of something that the great Elmore Leonard might have written.

Well, don't ask me, but I might have heard that the t*rr-ent for Dragged... was made available earlier today. In any case, I look forward to seeing it.

Matthew Fox was so great in Bone Tomahawk (as they all were), a real shame he's more or less given up acting now and is living in rural Oregon with fuck you amounts money, a lot of Lost actors deserved major fame after that series. Josh Holloway and Terry Quinn as well. Evangeline Lilly is only one that really made it in cinema. The series had its quirks, but it was always superbly acted. I always wondered where he went

Honestly US cinema and culture in general could do with more Harrison Ford types like him that are born and bred American and not UK and Australian imports.

He's so unpretentious:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive...tuary.html

[Sgt Donger]

I tried to watch the The Wandering Earth

It's supposed to be a sci-fi blockbuster from China.

I lasted about 10 minutes. I turned off after watching the silly Chinese dwarf girl make an idiot of herself time after time.

Don't recommend.

[glugger]

I recommend it just because it shows the progress of chinese cinema, compared to the west, very succinctly. Despite all the cgi, they are still at least 25 years behind Hollywood at telling stories through film. They are catching up very quickly though.

Also the whole premise of the movie provides a great insight into the difference in mindset between the east and the west. What has been the solution proposed by western science fiction to the exact same problem posed by the film?

[Sgt Donger]

(03-22-2019 10:15 PM)glugger Wrote:  

the movie provides a great insight into the difference in mindset between the east and the west

No it does not...it just shows that Chinese like to watch movies with silly girls in lead roles...no different to many Western movies