Topic: The Movie Thread

@Ralizah It’s a shame that Weathering With You doesn’t seem to have totally lived up the huge expectations after Your Name but I’ll definitely still give it a watch. Great review of 1917 as well, I’ve heard mixed things despite the obvious awards it’ll win.

@Ralizah It's disappointing that so many did not appreciate Glass. It had its flaws, sure, but I thought it was an awesome movie. I only really had issue with the ending. For me it was one of the best movies of 2019, and I hope Shyamalan continues the series.

And I'm in the party that thought The Village was quite good.

I saw Parasite yesterday. I kind of wished I had gathered more information before going in. It was unpleasant, and I left the theater quite depressed. I wouldn't recommend it.

I watched Star Wars Episode IX in the cinema earlier. It's an okay movie, I quite enjoyed it.

@RogerRoger Great. It is such a good film!

Bumblebee is, for one scene - a tiny apology for the Bay films and a small morsel of G1 design Cybertron flashback .
It's perfectly alright. The story is largely a slightly more considered retread of the first Bay film with the fat cut off.

Still haven't seen the LEGO Movie 2. I just imagined it really wouldn't be a patch on the first.

@RogerRoger Revenge of the Fallen is easily the worst of them! 😂

@RogerRoger Bumblebee is straight up awesome

@RogerRoger glad you enjoyed into the spider verse, it really is fantastic. Thought Bumblebee was a bit average, felt like I'd seen it 100 times before.

@RogerRoger So happy that we didn’t oversell Into the Spiderverse. It does hold up on a rewatch also. I should know since I’ve watched it ... 4 or 5 times I think, and it’s fun every time.
Sounds like I should watch Bumblebee. I’m not a fan of Transformers as a franchise, but enjoyed the first film. I don’t remember having seen any of the other movies, unless it had Megan Fox in it. Interestingly, the other day I noticed Bumblebee sitting on the shelf on sale and I thought briefly about picking it up.

@RogerRoger Into the Spider-Verse is supposed to look pretty good in UHD, so I've heard. It looks good anyway, but NOW TV only outputs at 720p (unless you pony up to 1080p), so will look better even on a standard Blu-Ray.

@RogerRoger Megan Fox... what a disappointing career that has been. She was supposed to be the next Angelina Jolie. Transformers seemed to jettison her into top tier billing, and then it seems like she just disappeared. I always wonder why some actors and actresses fall by the wayside while others explode and end up in dozens of big budget productions.

@RogerRoger Yeah, “selective” ...😄 that’s one way to put it.

@RogerRoger I know this was a full day ago, but your comment on Bumblebee: "I heard a lot of buzz around its release"

Very nice.

@Th3solution @RogerRoger A note on Megan Fox; she was chewed up, typecast, overexposed and scorned by the Hollywood powers that be when she dared open her mouth about it and be honest about the roles she was taking and being offered.
She'd made plenty of money and started a family. She became a little more choosy over the roles she took. On paper, some of the stuff she did should've been dynamite.

There was a Fathom (I read a few issues of it, it was OK) film in the works with her attached to star but it didn't go anywhere.

Also Bumblebee! Totally worth it for the G1 looking Cybertron scenes!

@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, the premise was a bit similar to the first Transformers movie I felt. I thought the movie was decent but I think a lot of people loved it mainly because it was better than the previous movies.

Guess the studio had no choice because they wanted the PG-13 rating but I thought it was a weird decision to have the humans liquefied and explode into a pool of slime when they got shot by the Deceptions, though. It made it felt like a kids movie.

I recently rewatched Starship Troopers, for the first time on Blu-Ray. A fun satire of militant nationalism with a sci-fi flair, I enjoy myself every time I watch it (despite the fact that the special effects are dated in spots, I love the first scene in space where Carmen flies the little shuttle around the space station).

Also ordered my next batch of Blu-Rays:

• Evangelion 1.11 (first film in a series that retells the story of Neon Genesis Evangelion).
• the Living Daylights (my next Bond film. I actually forgot to check to see if this or License to Kill was next after A View to a Kill, but I figured in the end it really doesn't matter which I watch first).
• Star Wars Episode 1: the Phantom Menace (figured I'd start collecting the series).
• Stripes (This Bill Murray comedy is definitely a guilty pleasure).

@WanderingBullet Bang on, not a bad movie by any means and an improvement on the second film (which is as far as I got), but that is not really saying much. It just seemed to repeat what was great about the first film and not bring anything new to the table.

@RR529 If you enjoyed Starship Troopers, you should try Verhoeven's other films from around the same time. Robocop and Total Recall are two of my favourite films from that period. Just be wary of the remakes, they are not a patch on the originals.

Watched The Prodigy on Netflix last night.

The first third or so is great - but as it moves on it falls in to relatively generic fare.

Very nicely directed in spots and the young lad does an incredible job!

Worth a watch, but don't trip over yourself rushing to it.

Rewatched the masterpiece that is The Lighthouse last night, easily the best film of 2019 and shows why Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are two of the best actors around in my opinion.