Topic: The Movie Thread

@KALofKRYPTON i mean it's not terrible, it looks kind of like a patch job but being as this is supposed to be set in his early years i can see why they went with a unrefined style

and that Bat symbol really does look like a pair of guns

@nessisonett finally some one else who doesn't think The Dark Night is the best Batman movie ever made

i think the only reason that movie got so blown up was because of what happened to Heath Ledger

@FullbringIchigo Honestly, the best Batman movie for me would be the original with Michael Keaton. Although my favourite is Batman Forever due to sheer hamminess and lines such as ‘Holy rusted metal, Batman! This metal, it’s rusty and its full of holes, you know holey’ 😂😂

@nessisonett yeah i would agree with that, not counting any of the animated movies of course

I've watched a couple of films since my last post.

Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone (Blu-Ray) - Remake of the early parts of the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV anime in film form. It's not the first time I've watched it (though the first time not on cable), and I'm glad to say it still had me gripped from beginning to end.

The Living Daylights (Blu-Ray) - The next Bond film on my list, and I've found it to be one of my favorites so far. After a Soviet general is seemingly kidnapped by the KGB after defecting to the west, Bond is tasked with getting him back & finds out that not all is as it seems. Some of the later Moore entries could get a little too campy for my liking, but this (the first Dalton outing) hit the balance of fun & action just right.

@Jaz007 there's use of resources, and just using stuff that was developed by probably dozens of people.

@nessisonett I love Burton's films - Batman Returns is still one of his most visually pleasing movies.

Affleck takes my best Bat award for BvS though.

@RR529 Dalton is my favourite Bond. I really wish he'd been able to do more. Glad you liked TLD, I can't choose between it and License To Kill for his best - but I'd say LTK is the better film all round.

I saw Sonic yesterday. It was great fun! Ironically, the pace dips a coupe of times, but as plenty point out - Carrey is pretty much the lynchpin of the film.
The script is much stronger than I expected, with a couple of gags pointed the grown ups in the room (the Fast and Furious one actually made me lol) - though it could have done with a little more.

The many younger kids in the screening were having a great time, which I suppose is the acid test.

On the whole, Sonic is a game adaptation really well done; it's rightly aimed at kids, doesn't bog itself down trying to justify the world and I'd be more than happy to see sequels in a similar vein.

I think Sega have missed a trick in not having a game ready to go along with the film, though there is a bit of a renewed push on Sega merchandise and Team Sonic Racing.

@KALofKRYPTON So wide variety of minds to yield better quality gadgets and such? Again, I fail to see how that doesn't make lots of sense.

@Jaz007 Anonymity.
Also, agency. He's meant to be smart; smart enough to fabricate his equipment.

With all this talk of Batman, I decided to rewatch the Nolan ones (well, the first two anyway). I actually rather like Batman Begins, Liam Neeson is great other than the strange Master Splinter facial hair. On another viewing, Bale hasn’t ramped up the hamminess yet and the voice isn’t quite as gruff as the sequels. Yeah, the villains might not be the star of the show but as yet another origin story, it does it’s job fairly well. Onto The Dark Knight tonight to see if my thoughts have changed at all!

@LN78 Yeah, it’s the only Batman one but I swear I’ve seen more origin stories for superheroes than any other genre of movie 😂

Peninsula, the sequel to Train to Busan is set to release this year in August. I was never a fan of Gong Yoo. That being said, I thought the first movie was quite good. Kang Dong Won on the other hand is much better actor in my opinion so I'm actually quite looking forward to the sequel.

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Spider-Man Far From Home. The post credits scenes are game changers. No joke. Wow. The actual movie was fun, not sure about the whole EuroTrip style of the first half. Into the Spider-Verse has set the bar so high that I'm not sure anything live action can come close. Jake Gyllenhaal was ace as Mysterio. Think I slightly prefer Homecoming and the first Spider-Man 2 has still not been bettered.

@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I do think that Homecoming was a better movie overall. The jokes in Far From Home were a hit and miss for me. The first act wasn't that good but it was great after that. Not to mention the movie has probably the best post credit scene in the MCU.

I ended up watching The Dark Knight again. Yeah, my feelings haven’t changed. It’s just all a bit messy and Bale’s voice is hilarious. Seriously, just dub over Kevin Conroy if you can’t do a good Bat-voice. The politics of the movie, which is a fair chunk of its plot, have not aged well at all, which is understandable given how much has changed in even the past decade. I still maintain that Aaron Eckhart gives just as good a performance as Heath Ledger and is in a way, more interesting as a character. I just don’t really get why it’s so beloved given that the action sequences are as hard to watch as that scene from Taken where Liam Neeson jumps over a fence. Seriously, the amount of takes to punch a guy is nonsense, the camera jumps all over the place. Batman Forever is a better movie. I understand that’s anathema but it is 😂😂

@LN78 Yeah cuts are the word I was looking for 😂😂 I just really dislike a lot of how TDK is put together. The sound mixing makes it really hard to hear a lot of audio even with relatively decent speakers and it apparently won an Oscar for sound editing which makes sense. I personally prefer Begins just because I feel as a cohesive origin story it does its job really well. Gary Oldman gives a career low performance as Gordon in the movies as well, impressive considering Bram Stoker’s Dracula exists. That part where Bruce crashes his sports car to ‘inadvertently’ save the accountant dude who knows his identity and Gordon just brushes it off as ‘Wow, you have good timing’, what’s that all about? He’s been a police officer for however many years but accepts that Bruce Wayne accidentally drove at 150 miles an hour and saved his own employee’s life in the process?

@LN78 I would post a gif of Gary Oldman as Dracula hamming it up but I concede it’s at least funny. Personally I find him an exceedingly hammy actor though.

Anyone seen Dragged Across Concrete?

@LN78 I saw it a month ago but kinda... drank too much and don’t fully remember the end so I’m going to watch it again tonight. I did expect a pretty gross ending (like Bone Tomahawk and BICB99) but I don’t recall it being quite so grim. Nonetheless, Mel Gibson was great in it I thought!

I do remember them “playing” PS4 without the controller lights being on though. That really annoyed me.

And another question: Logan’s Run. Worth a watch??

@LN78 yes I mentioned Logan’s Run to a friend earlier and he came back with Silent Running as another one to watch so we’ll probably do both. And I’ve had Stalker on the shelf looking at me for 6 months too...

Vince Vaughn was fantastic in Brawl but took a backseat to Mel in Concrete.

Another thing that made me laugh in that movie was the really swanky high rise police captains office that they get told off in.

@kyleforrester87 @LN78 Vince Vaughan has surprised me in the few serious roles I've seen him in. The best thing in True Detective Season 2. And yeah he was ace in Brawl. Almost put Dragged Across Concrete earlier but was put
off the running time. Have added it to my Amazon watch list. I didn't realise it was from the same director as Brawl and Bone Tomahawk, both I thought were fantastically violent and had decent films to back it up with.