Topic: The Movie Thread

@KratosMD Nothing wrong with enjoying a movie that's critically panned. I thought the setting in The Nun was quite nice and atmospheric, actually! Just wasn't a fan of the rest. But, as you pointed out, I'm an experienced viewer of horror cinema, so I'm perhaps a bit jaded.

Anyway, yeah, The Conjuring 1 & 2, all the Annabelle films, The Nun, and the Curse of La Llorona all take place in the same cinematic universe. The quality of these films is hit and miss for me, but it's impressive how big they've managed to make this franchise.

The good news is, if you liked The Nun, you ought to LOVE most of these other movies. They're all supernatural horror.

I dunno if it's on Netflix, but another movie to look out for is Lights Out, which features a very creative monster, of sorts, who can only physically manifest in the darkness. The director, David Sandberg, also directed Annabelle: Creation and, recently, acted as the director of the critically acclaimed superhero film Shazam!

@kyleforrester87 Cool. Post impressions. I've not seen it, because I tend to avoid possession flicks like the plague.

@kyleforrester87 @Ralizah The Taking Of Deborah Logan is a pretty good, from what I remember, and it’s in the found footage sub genre of horrors, which I’m quite partial to. Hope you enjoy it 👍

@jacobia @Ralizah Yeah I do like found footage films too, I'm expecting it to be slightly above average, it's just been on mine and a friends watch list for so long but we never got round to seeing it. I might even end up holding on to it until Halloween now as we usually watch a few choice scary movies then, but at least it'll be ready to go.

I saw Alita Battle Angel, it was slightly better than poor but I’m just gunna compare it to the live action Ghost in the Shell and say watch that instead, as I thought that was fairly good.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi both films would have been much better with an 18+ rating and Dredd levels of violence, to be fair

@Frigate i'm going to say it i enjoyed them but i don't think they are as great as people say they are, there is a LOT of issues with the stories for example

Batman Begins to be fair this is the best of the 3 (YEAH I SAID IT) and i don't have any real issues with this one but the whole thing with the Microwave Emitter, if it evaporates all water then why didn't it kill everyone in proximity to it, after all the human body IS at least 60% water

The Dark Knight the whole thing with Batman becoming the villain was just dumb though, he had NO need to take the blame for Harvey's actions, they could have laid all that on the Joker or just left it open and said it was an "unknown person"

and as for The Dark Knight Rises, how did Bruce lose all his money when some one went right into the exchange and stole it in front of everyone, there is NO way that would stand and why did they send the ENTIRE police force into the underground and saying that how were they even able to fight after being stuck underground for months

and how did Bruce get back to Gotham?

@Frigate oh i still enjoy them don't misunderstand but i don't get why people call them masterpieces, they are fun, enjoyable and kick ass films but masterpieces they are not

also i didn't think Ledger's Joker was all that impressive either and could anyone really understand what Bane was saying half the time?

oh and apparently the whole thing with the Rachel Dawes character was because Katie Holmes was doing another film

@Frigate i do sometimes too actually

@Fullbringlchigo Same here, Batman Begins is the best of that trilogy for me too.

The Dark Knight is my all-time favorite superhero movie. It's so well-paced. Ledger's acting is so compelling. And Nolan maintains a feverish intensity throughout. I also enjoy the morality play aspects of the second half, and the way their solution for finding the Joker tapped into public anxieties about our government's habit of casually eroding freedoms in the name of "security" and protecting us from madmen. The movie might take itself a TAD too seriously, but it's still amazing. One of the few blockbusters I can rewatch pretty much any time, any where.

Of course, Batman Begins was also great and did a fantastic job of reinventing the character and mythology for a modern audience.

The Dark Knight Rises is a mess. What a horrible way to end the trilogy.

I'll always enjoy the first two Nolan Batman films more than anything Marvel/Disney churn out.

@FullbringIchigo The problem with using Joker or an unknown person is that they needed someone who was free, powerful, and well-known to the public to be the scapegoat for Harvey's crimes so that public discontent could be channeled toward them. Having some random person commit those crimes would just make the already unstable city angrier at the incompetence of the police.

@Frigate Katie Holmes was in 'Thank You For Smoking' with Aaron Eckhart and the two had a sex scene together. There were rumours at the time that Tom Cruise got a bit jealous, and kicked off when it was announced that Holmes and Eckhart would be acting together again.

Like I say, it was a rumour at the time, but it's a rainy Saturday and I've got nothing better to do than stir up some Hollywood gossip.

@kyleforrester87 Dredd was a top film.

@Ralizah true but i still think it didn't need to be Batman but that could be because i really don't like "Hero is made out to be the villain stories" because it's never really believable and is then sorted out in the next movie anyway with little to no impact on anything

it's also the one thing i hate about the Spider-Man Far from Home movie

@Ralizah Yeah me too on TDK, so much better than the trash that has come out from DC since then.

Such a cold take on the Nolan Batman trilogy @RogerRoger ! I respectfully disagree and say that Cillian Murphy does a good turn as Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow at the very least!

As for my opinion The Dark Knight Rises sucks summet awful (I can quite clearly hear what Tom Hardy's saying as Bane) I can only guess that a reason or two for it's lower quality might be due to Ledger's tragic passing and a hasty change of plans but who knows?

The Dark Knight and Batman Begins are pretty stellar on the other hand (Dark Knight especially so, one of my favourite films and definitely one I can watch multiple times)

Danny Devito as Penguin in Batman Returns is a pretty awesome villain too. The rest of the movie is a bit over the place... But Penguin is great

Still The Lego Batman Movie for me.

Batman sucks 😂

@RogerRoger @Ralizah @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy @Frigate you know there is one Batman movie i never see anyone bring up but i LOVE it and that is

Batman the Movie from 1966

yes it's campy, it's cheesy and it's story is kinda dumb BUT it's SO much fun plus how many other Batman films have The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin and Catwoman team up in the same film

not to mention giving birth to one of the best memes so good that even Wallace and Gromit do it

i bloody LOVE this movie

Never actually seen it @FullbringIchigo or any of the series... That bandit/thief mask isn't disguising the Joker or Penguin in the slightest 😂

No skin off my nose that you don't like them @RogerRoger! You do you!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yeah it's about as effective as Robins mask or Clark's glasses

@FullbringIchigo Oh, come on! You mention the 1966 Batman movie and don't specifically call attention to the fact that Batman maces a shark with "shark repellent batspray?"

Which also, I might add, somehow causes the shark to explode.