I watched Blade at the weekend and it's still a great movie after all these years. The effects are a bit iffy particularly the final duel with all that CGI blood but still head and shoulders above anything In the MCU and I don't dislike the MCU just bored of it!
@MightyDemon82 Blade is such a gem of a film looking back at it in the post-MCU world. It's interesting seeing that kind of film now considering it came out during a time when comic book films were basically completely shunned thanks to how badly stuff like Batman & Robin, Superman IV and Spawn damaged their rep
It basically completely eschewed being faithful to the source material but it's a fun as hell action film and the line about ice skating up hills is something only Blade could've pulled off
@MightyDemon82 I like Blade and Blade 2. They’re really silly but still fun movies. I broadly like the MCU but I do wish we had movies which pushed the boundaries instead of all having the exact same jokes, atmosphere and character archetypes.
@nessisonett See this right here is why I'm both excited for Moon Knight but also extremely worried about how Disney is going to dumb him down to make him more marketable to the MCU-only crowd
He's such a broadly experimental and obscure character with the ability to be adapted to any genre in terms of his comic stories that I don't just want that show following the MCU status quo
@TheFrenchiestFry It should be ok given it’s Disney Plus and WandaVision has proven that they can actually do something interesting in that format. It’s more the movies like The Eternals and Black Widow that I just think look incredibly outdated. Like they’ve funnelled characters into a script generator.
I watched Bill & Ted: Face the Music the other night, I thought it was good but not as good as the first two, a fitting end to the trilogy though, too many short scenes and a lack of time spent on each thread of the multitudinous threads of the plot. Still, the guy doing the guitar for the Jimi Hendrix character was actually a much better guitarist than him!
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@colonelkilgore Haha, well, in my defence, you should watch the movie and compare and contrast for yourself, I mean, some of those legato licks man, especially when he was doing the neoclassical stuff, I don't think said guitarist was the same as Yngwie Malmsteen somehow, legend though he is. it was probably someone like Steve Vai doing the playing! (He played guitar for Rufus in 1 & 2, I believe)
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman I've seen it, and like you I think it wasn't quite up there with the first two... Still a nice hot of nostalgia all the same.
Talking about Steve Vai, have you seen the epic guitar battle between Ralph Macchio and Vai that concludes the criminally underrated 1986 movie Crossroads? If you haven't, treat yourself and find it on YouTube... frikkin chills!
@colonelkilgore I think I'll just watch the whole movie Also what was that robot all about? when he said that line about "Wen u sed Let's Rock, it made mee feel lyk I wanteed 2 rock" to Death, in the van, when they are escaping from hell, the movie just plummeted in my opinion, the whole character of Dennis the robot just didn't work after they all went to hell and he became "nice" and insecure and strange, that part when he was dancing at the end sucked too, although it was nice to see Bill & Ted playing guitar together again.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
There is a Tetris movie being filmed up the back of my workplace in Aberdeen at the Haliburton offices. Could be an interesting watch when it's released.
There are rumours abounding that Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as Sue Storm in the MCU Fantastic Four movie. Honestly, she’s a fantastic actress who gets a lot of hate for doing pretty much nothing so I’d be perfectly happy with her in the role. I worry that there are too many people set on Emily Blunt and John Krasinski in the roles when it probably won’t happen. A lot of people would have preferred Joaquin Phoenix as Doctor Strange and that didn’t happen and yet Bendydick Cucumberpatch was really great in the role.
@nessisonett I actually think she’d be a better fit aesthetically at least. I was a big fan of hers back in her Hunger Games era and think she has a lot of talent. I do feel something went off the boil with her somewhat though as I haven’t actually ‘liked’ her in anything for a while... it probably doesn’t help the situation that I’ve only seen her in a couple of things during that while.
I figured seeing as you're the sonic aficionado @RogerRoger (and I hopefully recall correctly in you praising it) I'd give you tag to say I ended up watching the Sonic The Hedgehog movie today with a slight reservation or two and came away rather pleasantly surprised by it! 😄
Ben Schwartz did a rather fine job as Sonic's VA to bring the blue blur to life. Jim Carrey was clearly having fun as Robotnik/Eggman and did rather well too as did James Marsden I thought. There was actually some pretty decent gags throughout it too.
The easter eggs and references were rather nice (The "Sanic" meme showing up surprised me but was rather well implimented) and the rings having that iconic sound effect was a nice touch. The mushroom world was totally a little cheeky wink to Mario... Right? Or was that just me?
Thank goodness they changed the design of Sonic though as whilst the emotional moments didn't quite hit for me... The old design REALLY would've took me out the whole thing. Tails' model at the end looked really well done too I thought for what was basically a 5 second teaser!
Motherless Brooklyn. A decent 1950's set noir written and directed by Edward Norton, who adapted the novel for the big screen. Interestingly the novel was set in the nineties, so it is not a direct one to one retelling of the source material.
A really strong cast - Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis who all do well. It wasn't twisty enough for me to rank up with my fave noir movies, and it was a bit languorous in places. The main twist, if you can call it that is that Norton's character has Tourette Syndrome, which was not recognised at the time. This can cause for him to be in some awkward situations, but mostly just boils down to him having to explain his condition.
You can tell this was a labour of love for Norton as the production values are excellent, with great looking sets and a interesting soundtrack. The latter mixes traditional sounds of jazz of the time with songs by Thom York of Radiohead and Flea, the bassist from Red Hot Chilli Peppers. It shouldn't work but it does, and it is not over used which is a good thing.
Overall if your a fan of the genre, I can highly reccomend it. If not, it might be a bit too slow paced for some. It is more akin to something like Chinatown than LA Story, which is not a bad thing for me.
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