Topic: The Movie Thread

@Gremio108 Yeah what a wasted opportunity RPO was.

@mookysam 12 Monkeys is a post apocalyptic thriller / mystery / steampunkish sci-fi

It's great. Some massive disaster hits the Earth. The 1% of People who survived live underground. Bruce Willis is sent back in time to find out information. But goes too far to the wrong date (1990) and gets sectioned where he meets Brad Pitt as an inmate. I have read up on it since and the script alone cost $1mil. Its brilliant.

Yeah 12 Monkeys is very good

Edit: apparently they made a TV show out of it too, ratings look fairly decent.

Bleach (Netflix Original Film) - Japanese produced live action adaptation of the popular manga/anime. Really don't waste your time on this. It has the typical concessions of adaptations of this type, reworking an entire arc's worth of story into a less than 2 hour runtime, and while that's understandable, there's still a lot of stuff (including characters) they had to omit, and overall the film was simply a bore for most of it's runtime, and the costuming was particularly low budget with the actors looking like they were just wearing store bought Bleach cosplay outfits. The climactic battle was actually pretty fun in a cheesy sort of way, but that in itself isn't enough to save the film.

I actually kinda liked the live action FMA film, but not this one.

@kyleforrester87 The 12 Monkeys tv show is good. I don’t remember everything about it, or the original movie, but I think the show incorporates the basic plot and then expands exponentially (love that word) to evolve it’s own lore.

Watched Terminal the other night. Not to be confused with The Terminal with Tom Hanks, this stars Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, Dexter Fletcher (Press Gang!), Max Irons and Mike Myers. Most of the cast do a great job, MR steals the show with Irons the weakest imo. He came across as too posh for his role in some scenes
It's a bit bonkers but not as clever as it thinks it is. It is a neo-noir which has got a unique look, the lighting and cinematography is excellent. The story is ok up to a point, i thought the twists were pulled off without any conviction and lacked any real punch. I'm not one that tries to actively second guess the outcome of films, but I saw one of the twist coming a mile off. More savvy people will probably see them all.
It is probably worth a watch, i found it a bit different from what I've watched recently and I'm a bit of a sucker for neo-noir. But I can see some people totally hating it lol.

@RogerRoger Glad you enjoyed it! It was a for more enjoyable experience in the cinema, so much more immersive! It almost makes me wanna watch the upcoming re-release in some IMAX screens.

EDIT: Whoops, I was reading an outdated article!

Watched Replicas on Sunday. It's a movie that's teetering on "so-bad-it's-good" territory. The plot is confused. The 'science' is complete nonsense. Keanu Reeves is at his Keanu Reeves-iest here. The acting is all terrible, with some of the most inadvertently funny line readings I've seen in years. The special effects are so bad that they look like something out of a low-budget movie from the early 90's.

I enjoyed it, though. It was fun rubbish.

Also watched The Upside, which I didn't care for aside from Cranston's excellent-as-usual acting. The story is kind of off-putting to begin with (an ex-con, played by Hart, helps a paralyzed millionaire, played by Cranston, to see the true meaning of life with his street wisdom or something), and while Kevin Hart clearly has his routine down and performs it well, I find him obnoxious and feel a lot of second-hand embarrassment watching him. It also represents something I hate, being a remake of a successful French film: Hollywood's continual insistence on strip-mining foreign cinema for ideas, often erasing public consciousness of the smaller budget, and usually artistically superior, foreign originals in the first place.

Ghostbusters 3 is coming in 2020, and it's a sequel to the first two films!

@Ralizah yes i saw that

i may have fanboyed a little

Hopefully this one comes and goes with a minimum of drummed-up drama.

Urgh...
The game was as close to a decent sequel as we'll get.

Also. I think that's the wrong car.

Should be ECTO-1 A

@KALofKRYPTON i think it's just for advertising to let us know THIS is the original Ghostbusters because it certainly isn't the reboot Ecto-1, the back end is all wrong for that see

Original

Reboot

@FullbringIchigo I know it's the original model of car, I don't think anyone who had read Reitman's recent musings would expect any different.

But the teaser shows a run down/mothballed Ecto-1, with the Ecto-1 plate and first film logo - both of which were changed for Ghostbusters 2. It's just annoying. Sony clearly don't want to let the cash cow die and felt the sting of Feig's hubris with the shambolic reboot - this just feels like cynical baiting from some marketing person.

@KALofKRYPTON that's because it is "look it's the original we swear this time" but you have to admit it worked

@FullbringIchigo I thought it fake at first. I'd read the Reitman thing a few hours before I saw it, and the wrong car stuff made me thing it wasn't legit.

It's a bit daft really considering production hasn't even started. Reminds me of Superman and Robocop posters in cinemas years ago for films that never ended up being made.

@KALofKRYPTON i don't think you have to worry this time, Sony have a lot of lost ground to get back after that reboot, it looked bad, the characters were stereotypical and one dimensional and it just wasn't funny

@FullbringIchigo It is genuinely one of the worst films I never paid to see! Feig is an awful film maker though, it was never going to be a good film - let alone a good Ghostbusters film.

@KALofKRYPTON i don't think i laughed once during that film, of course humour is subjective so it would have appealed to some and of course there are those who liked it JUST because it had a female cast, which is actually as bad as those who hated it for the same reason, if your only draw is because the characters are the same gender as you then that's just as sexist as those who hate it because they wasn't their gender because what your saying that your gender is the only one that matters, same as if you complain that a character isn't the same race or sexuality as your are, regardless of what yours is your just saying "I'm this and that's all that matters and everyone should be like me"

@FullbringIchigo Me neither, that said - McCarthy is about as funny as a crumbling teeth dream most of the time. She occasionally has the benefit of a good script, but Feig's obsession with filming hours upon hours of ad-libs trying to find humour really shows in Ghostbusters. It's unfortunate that it just happened to be a reboot of genuinely sharp, witty and clever film.