Topic: The Movie Thread

Universal Soldier (Amazon Instant Video) - 90's action flick starring Jean-Claude Van Damme & Dolph Lundgren as Vietnam War soldiers who, after killing each other during the war, are brought back to life in a clandestine government program to create super soldiers, but things don't go quite as planned when the two start regaining their memories.

It's not art by any stretch of the imagination, but there's just something fun about all the cheesy machismo, overdesigned super soldier uniforms, and explosions to turn your mind off to.

Is anyone else burnt out on the Marvel films or is it just me, looking at the new slate of upcoming MCU movies the only one that caught my interest is Doctor Strange: Multiverse and Thor Love and Thunder (and that's only because i'm interested in how Jane gets to wield Mjolnir when it was destroyed in Ragnarok

it's been 23 films in 11 years, that's too much

@FullbringIchigo I've been burnt out on superhero films for years.

It's why I appreciate the ones that try something different. Like the relatively low-stakes Spiderman films. I enjoy their relative mundane-ness.

@FullbringIchigo I was burnt out 20 years ago. Absolute tripe.

@Ralizah yeah that's why i'm looking forward to Doctor Strange exploring the multiverse, something new

@FullbringIchigo Yeah, since Superhero movies have never really been my thing, I've been a bit bemused by the popularity of the Marvel films these last few years.

Not that I dislike them. I'm just surprised that people keep going to see them in their droves. When I watch one of them, I tend to slip into a sort of trance. I enjoy them while they last but then I can't remember anything about them afterwards.

I continue to really enjoy Superhero movies in general. Whether DC or Marvel, I like the escape. Obviously there are plenty of bad ones though. The MCU’s next phase is a little underwhelming, but I think it’s mostly because of the unknown commodities like The Eternals, Shang-chi, and Blade. I don’t read the source material so I am not familiar with these, but I didn’t know who the Guardians of the Galaxy were before the movies and the films were highly entertaining.
I’m still running the gauntlet of watching all the MCU movies again in rapid succession (I already did the Nolan Batmans and I’ll do the new Justice League films later), I stalled after Incredible Hulk. I will say that they seemed to get better over time but Iron Man was pretty great.
But I look at superhero movies as the modern day Westerns / Cowboy movies. I look back on those copious number of Western movies made back in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s and I think they all look the same and so boring. But a couple generations ago they loved that genre. Now you rarely ever see a big budget Western. I’m sure our grandkids will wonder why we liked these superhero movies so much, but I’ll just sit in my rocking chair and tell them about the good ol’ days and how stupid their VR haptic suit based immersive movie theaters are.

I got burnt out by the time Infinity War came out and I've not enjoyed any of the DC stuff since the Nolan Batman films.

But I enjoy reading the graphic novels, but I've only recently started in the last five or so years.

@Kidfried reading is for dorks!

I got the Blue Ray version of the Ghost in the Shell anime, along with GitS: Innocence (I saw the original a long time ago, and I've not seen Innocence).

I also got Stalker, not sure if I'll like this one or not. I'm not against sloooow weird movies, but it's not something my girlfriend will enjoy so I'll have to find a rare moment when I'm alone and in the mood to watch a 3 hour subtitled film from the 70's! 100% fresh, though, so might be good!

@RogerRoger Well, you just used the banked apology you had with me by saying something negative about Robocop. There was honestly very little you could do to upset me, but you managed to find it incredibly quickly.

But to be clear, yes Robocop needs exactly the amount of swearing in it that it has!!

Number 2 is alrightish (great scene with the toxic waste), number 3 is laughably bad.

@RogerRoger to be honest I saw Robocop a few times when I was younger, but it never stayed with me in the way films like Terminator and Alien did. But then I saw it again about 5 years ago and I was seriously impressed with how good it was!

@RogerRoger The reboot is VERY PG-13. I didn't like it; they scrubbed away the majority of violence and profanity, but a lot of the personality went with it as well, I thought. Although it's not as bad as a lot of people made it out to be, either.

The profanity isn't as bad as what you see in a lot of "comedy" films today, and I think it helps establish a very gritty tone. But I understand sensitivities differ on that sort of thing.

Anyway, satire and really gruesome violence is sort of what Paul Verhoeven (the director) has become known for, primarily on the strength of Robocop and Starship Troopers (which was unfair to the surprisingly thoughtful original novel, perhaps, but was still a funny and resonant satire of militarism).

@Ralizah the reboot really annoyed me. I think that’s why Dredd didn’t do so great, since Robocop and Total Recall all had shoddy reboots around the same period and it got tarred with the same brush.

@kyleforrester87 @Ralizah The reboot of Robocop I found a bit dull really compared to the original. One of the few I've watched, I refuse to watch the Total Recall one as i like original and don't want the memory of that film ruined!

Captain Marvel (DVD) - Pretty standard Marvel fare, it was decent fun while it lasted. Not sure what her role in the comics is, but with her awakening there at the end it's clear they're trying to position her as the "Superman"-esque hero whom victory in Endgame is hinged upon. Not that I have a problem with that, as it was pretty cool seing her toss back an alien ballistic missile then rend apart an intergalactic cruiser in a matter of seconds with her bare hands.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Also you can get those cameras now that you can use to see what's happening on your doorstep. Mum probably won't even bother going back for Kevin to be honest.

@Ralizah 😂 Brilliant.

@RogerRoger Well you're the first person I've met who thinks Robocop 2 is better than the original, I'm kind of looking forward to your take on the trainwreck that was number 3 now!

"I liked that the drug use portrayed in the film centered around a fictionalised substance"

And I know I keep banging the drum, but give Dredd 2012 a go :')