Topic: The Movie Thread

@BearsEatBeets that's awesome if that's true about Daredevil, just because it could potentially officially canonise the Netflix MCU shows which were always kind of in this grey area, moreso now that they've all been canned in favour of a line up of more direct movie spin offs. Even if they end up decanonising them in some multiversal shenanigans, it would be good just to get some recognition for them on the big screen!

To my knowledge, the only MCU TV show that's been referenced in a film was agent Carter when Jarvis featured in avengers endgame. Obviously the movies get referenced loads in the shows and characters pop up like Lady Sif and Nick Fury.

Some really cool Marvel news too, Ant-Man 3 with Jonathan Majors as Kang, Ironheart TV Show (ppl will be upset but they’re totally setting up young avengers), Armor Wars with Don Cheadle, trailers for the new shows coming soon, an FF movie from Jon Watts, Tim Roth back in She-Hulk, Quasar and Ms Marvel being in Captain Marvel 2... the list goes on!

@nessisonett They have scaled back the Star Wars movie releases but are releasing a f ton of TV shows.

If the Ahsoka show is as good as Mando, that will one to watch. Maybe Obi-Wan Kenobi. But not sure about the rest.

I'm a little bit more optimistic from how good Mando is. But they do seem to be repeating the same things as they did with Marvel. Will be crazy popular but will be over saturated AF. I enjoyed the majority of Marvel films but by the end I become fed up with it all.

@JohnnyShoulder @RogerRoger Interconnectedness aside, flooding the viewing market with all things SW does take some of the shine off each show as it's own individual entity imo. Something to be said for a degree of rarity. Part of Mando's appeal for me is how it's really one of a kind at the moment. Soon it'll be "just another SW series" which seems a little unfortunate.

I'm a bit slow catching up on all the Disney news (there's plenty of it) but I'm quite eager to see how this pans out.

I should probably look up a definitive list and see what's tv series and what's film as I've just been discovering titles pretty much.

@zupertramp If you throw enough crap at the wall some of it will stick eventually.

@RogerRoger The whole interconnected thing with the Marvel mcu did do my head in towards the last few movies. One of the reasons why I enjoyed Logan and Deadpool so much.

We shall see with the new stuff, but I will remain on the cynical side of the fence until proven otherwise.

@JohnnyShoulder ha, the Disney motto.

@RogerRoger I have a mate at work who is a massive Star Wars fan, I've spoken about him before, and he is more cynical than me. Saying stuff like it all feels stale, they could do anything and all they do is use the same characters whose stories have already been told etc. I'm trying to get him to watch Mando as one i think he will really like it and two because it might make him have less hate for the series.

I watched Lethal Weapon 3 and 4 recently, I thought number 3 was almost as good as number 1 because of Riggs' new foil and love interest. I'm gutted that she was relegated to the pregnancy trope in the fourth film but overall that plot thread led to a fitting bittersweet ending for the series that I still can't get out of my head days later. I think I'm a bit emotional from other things anyway but I just have the end credits song "Why can't we be friends" stuck in my head and it feels so bittersweet!

@RogerRoger I think the suffering came with episodes 8 and 9...

@RogerRoger Oh boy... Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn... the awkward title should have been a sign to me of an awkward movie, but I actually liked Suicide Squad much more than the average Joe; it wasn’t my favorite comic inspired movie by any stretch, but I think it got a bad wrap. And compared to Birds of Prey, it’s friggin’ Casablanca.

Actually, I haven’t posted official thoughts on BoP because after about 45 minutes I just had to turn it off and I favored catching up on some TV shows instead (the wonderful Mando and my new jam, The Umbrella Academy) So as per recent discussion, I probably need to finish watching BoP before passing full judgment, but it’s just not very good so far. So far I would compare my time with it as akin to a root canal, only without the anesthesia.

And it’s too bad, because I really love Ewan McGregor. He’s just not very good in this movie though. And I liked Margot Robbie as Harley in SS, but she seems to shrink when being in the spotlight full time here. In both actors’ defense, the script they were given is probably the biggest problem.

The film just really doesn’t know what it wants to be. It tries to be funny, comical and yet tragic and foreboding. It accomplishes neither.

Again, this is my impressions of the first half of the movie before I just had to take a break. And perhaps watching it in the heels of the fantastic Joker was always going to set it up for failure in my eyes.

I’ll let you know if I can stomach the latter half and if it redeems itself.

@Th3solution Still find it cool that Johnny Goth is Joker’s body double in that movie, I’ve followed his music career since he was getting a couple thousand views on YouTube! The movie was kinda pants but personally it wasn’t as bad as Suicide Squad.

@Th3solution Eeesh good luck that. It does not get any better, in fact it gets a whole lot worse for Birds of Prey. At least some of action scenes with Harley were nicely done, if a tad over choreographed. So at least it had one redeeming factor. Which is more than i can say for Suicide Squad, an awful awful movie.

I like how Oscar Isaac was all dismissive of big budget films after completing SW, saying he's going to focus on "handmade" films, then proceeds to secure roles in Dune, Metal Gear Solid, Moon Knight, and an Addams Family sequel. Just find that amusing.

Rewatched Traffic the other night. Not as good as I remember but still a solid film.

Also surprised no one has brought up the Tom Cruise thing, especially since we'd just recently mentioned him. Mixed feelings as I totally agree with him in principle but I also feel people have a right to a work environment where getting yelled at is unacceptable.

@zupertramp I dunno, if more people were like Tom Cruise then we’d be in a much better place. He was perfectly right, especially the fact that he’s responsible for the livelihoods of people all over the world doing different small parts of the movie from catering to special effects. He probably shouldn’t have shouted at them but sometimes giving people a bollocking works.

@nessisonett Fair enough and don't get me wrong, his reaction is the one I have raging inside of me just about every time I leave the house but yelling is just unprofessional... even when it's a "good" reason and even if it's Tom Cruise. That said we all lose our cool and you can tell he's under untold amounts of stress so, I mean, it's totally forgivable but still wrong.

@zupertramp Ah well, at least it’s coming from a good place and not about how the alien precursors are reading our minds and indoctrinating us 😂

@nessisonett Ha, yes it's funny because despite my criticism, his tirade actually helped me see him a positive light for a change.

@zupertramp Oscar Isaacs said in an interview before Star Wars TFA was released that he could be connected to the downfall in two of the biggest franchises in cinema. Whoops. 🤣

I watched Jojo Rabbit and I dunno, it frustrates me just as much on a second viewing. I totally get what Taika Waititi was going for and a lot of the humour does land but I find his portrayal of Hitler a bit kinda flat, it lacks edge. Sam Rockwell’s character muddies the waters too, he portrays it well and is great as usual but his ‘good Nazi’ character somewhat takes away from the whole indoctrination angle. It just feels a bit toned down for the Hollywood audience, as if he was worried about what he could get away with. It probably doesn’t help that I’ve seen both Come and See and The Painted Bird, two films that deal with World War Two seen through the eyes of a young boy and aren’t afraid to truly delve into the impact and toll that takes on his mind. Jojo Rabbit isn’t a bad movie, it’s just missing a certain something.