Topic: The Movie Thread

Just got our End Game tickets. Going to pull the kids out of school an hour early to beat the rush release day. So excited to see how they wrap this story up!!!

@redd214 Thankfully the release falls in half-term here, so most of the kids will have seen it by the end of the week.

Think I'll go for a gentle Sunday showing

@KALofKRYPTON yeah they had Infinity War spoiled for them (and me lol!! ) by some kids at their school cause we waited a week to go see it. Don't want it to happen again!

@redd214
Ha, I'm pretty easy on when it comes to spoilers for these things - it's only Marvel after all

Goin' to watch Shazam today.

Also, the new Joker teaser trailer is out.

Enjoy Shazam, it looks like it’ll be a lot of fun. Yeah, that trailer for Joker is really good, and hopefully the movie will be awesome.
Talking of awesome, have my fellow film enthusiasts seen this?.....

Shazam on Saturday!

Joker looks pretty much as I expected. Can't say I'm all that interested. Looks like a fairly pedestrian take on various elements of the several Joker origins out there.

I'm sure it's a decent enough film though.

So, I almost never see a movie on opening day, but I'm doing just that with the new Pet Sematary on Friday. We'll see how that turns out. I like the trailers.

@WanderingBullet Boy, I'm confused. I thought this was an adaptation of the "Joker" graphic novel, but apparently it's just another origin story for the character.

Well, whatever. It'll still be better than whatever Marvel churns out this year.

@jacobia Yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic about Brightburn. Between that and (potentially) The New Mutants, the "superhero horror film" subgenre is off to one hell of a start!

@Ralizah odd thing, but the posters for Pet Cemetary really riled up my pedantry!

"... from the author of It." As if actually saying 'Stephen King' would have been too obscure an endorsement 🙄😂.

The Joker movie is an interesting one since it's considered as a psychological thriller (based on Wikipedia).

Also, I thought Shazam! was a good and fun family movie. The CGI at times were a bit poor, not to mention the designs for the seven deadly sins monsters which I'm not a fan of. For me, both Shazam! and Wonder Woman are currently DCU's best movies. That being said, Shazam! has a better villain than Ares from Wonder Woman.

@KALofKRYPTON Heh, I kind of like that. Most authors don't get name-dropped like that, instead being tied in the public imagination to their popular works. Almost seems like a slap across the face to his obnoxious celebrity status.

@Frigate I thought Mamoa was pretty decent, actually. He’s not Orson Welles or Sir Ian McKellen or anything, but he’s about average for action hero acting, imo. I actually felt pleasantly surprised after only having seen his work in Game if Thrones. Nicole Kidman, in the other hand, was pretty awful, except when she was fighting, which was pretty well done. But yes, the movie as a whole was ‘meh.’

And I think you’re referring to Into the Spiderverse if you’re talking about the animated Spidey movie. I was slightly disappointing in it but only because it had been blown up in the media as the best Spider-Man movie ever and I think it was good but I don’t know if I’d go that far.

Shazam was amazing!

My expectations were seriously low. But it's actually a really good film to watch with the family. On that note I thought it was a PG.

No idea how my 3 year old daughter got in as it was a 12 so the sins will give her nightmares for the rest of her life. Anyhow well worth a watch and my favourite DC film to date since Michael Keatons Batman.

@themcnoisy Shazam! is a 12A.

"Films rated 12A are suitable for children aged 12 and over. However, people younger than 12 may see a 12A so long as they are accompanied by an adult. In such circumstances, responsibility for allowing a child under 12 to view lies with the accompanying adult."

So the fault is with you for not checking the rating of film properly beforehand, not the staff at the cinema.

@JohnnyShoulder Thanks for that but I had no idea it was a 12 here's the lowdown.

My wife booked the tickets for my son and said we were going. I was like cool, having no idea what it was about. My wife's only ever booked us to watch wholesome family stuff since forever.

My Wife was in work I had 3 kids. I didn't even realise it was a 12a until it said it at the start of the film after all the trailers which tbh I thought were pretty intense themselves. I was like nahhhh bruv. It's not suitable for any little ones out there. My wife met us 15 minutes or so into the film and we took turns taking her out when the bad guy was around. He's around a lot.

And again I didn't even know what 12a was. Genuinely I never even knew that was even a thing. U, PG, 12, 15, 18 - Thats always been my take on it.

I've actually taken a look and 12a was brought in 17 years ago. I had absolutely no idea.

InuYasha the Movie 2: Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (Amazon Prime Video) - I was feeling nostalgic tonight, and since I'm a big fan of the series (as you can tell from my avatar), I decided to impulse buy this on Amazon this evening and give it a watch. I went with the second film since it's my favorite one (I last watched it a few years ago, and even then it was either a poor quality YouTube upload or on an unreputable website), so watching it in HD was a treat and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

I really should purchase the series one of these days (last time I watched it through was when Toonami re-aired it 6 or 7 years ago, man it didn't seem so long ago), but I'm not sure where I'd find the time to squeeze in a near 200 episode anime series (counting the Final Act too, naturally).

@themcnoisy Eh? You didn't even know about 12a.... blimey. Not sure what to say about that. There isn't even a 12 rating for cinemas any more, only for Blu-Ray and DVD. Do you know what those are? Nice one in trying to shift the blame onto to the wife lol.

@JohnnyShoulder I'm 38. Last time I had to sneak into a movie was Terminator 2 Judgement day.

Honestly I didn't know about 12a. I'm not trying to grab attention or shift blame I have never heard of it (or more likely I have but never retained that information as I've never used it). And as mentioned other than watching films with the wife alone at the Cinema as we have a big family we always watch kids films. Anyway the films good and you should give it a watch.

@themcnoisy Ah well, at least it is a lesson learnt.

Yep, Shazam is really great! 😁