@Sorteddan Thor’s basically a cardboard cut out in that movie, it doesn’t really improve all that much when he’s on screen. Rene Russo honestly gives the only tolerable performance in that movie!
Watched The Last Duel on Disney+ and it was really great actually. It worked well as a pretty damning critique of honour, chivalry and male pride. Jodie Comer was great but not quite as good as whatever the living f**k Ben Affleck’s blonde hair was.
Accidentally traumatized my sister by showing her 70s anime classic Ringing Bell, lol. Kinda shocking to think that was a story intended for children.
@RogerRoger Yeah, like Alien, Terminator is pretty much a straight-up horror movie masquerading as science-fiction. Amazing to think how much T2 shifted the tone of that property.
Wrath of Man... they don’t films like this any more! I’ve always (well apart from that turgid mess that he made with his then wife Madonna) ‘quite’ liked Guy Ritchie’s output. His movies are never really ‘great’ but normally entertaining... and the same for Stath really. Well, this was definitely a change of pace for Ritchie in particular. I’ve always felt his usual schtick is something akin to a wannabe Tarantino with cockney stylings... well there’s been a definitive shift in his creative energy and this was far more Michael Mann by way of Sam Peckinpah. Now I have nothing (absolutely nothing... he’s an absolute treasure) against Tarantino... but there is only one... and no matter how talented the copycat may be it will always be a pale imitation. This worked though... maybe the final third fell off a little, but films like this are so few and far between these days that it got a pass for that from me. Stath was ‘still’ Stath... but the best kinda Stath.
After not watching it in years I ended up watching The Matrix last night thanks to being reminded about it by that Unreal 5 demo and the new film coming out.
Good grief that was two hours I'm never getting back. Absolutely dull as dishwater. It was even worse then I remembered it being.
I really don't get what anyone sees in this series 😧
I also watched Detective Pikachu over the weekend and it was better then the Matrix that's for damn sure.
It was a bit disappointing though.
Most of the Pokemon models translated rather well into a more realistic style I thought but the model for Gengar (one of my favourite Pokémon) was really quite off putting.
Didn't think a whole lot of the lead character Tim (Honestly I thought his friend in the beginning was much more interesting) & I personally thought the news reporter girl was an awful actress.
Ryan Reynolds was pretty good as Detective Pikachu though not gonna lie & Bill Nighy, naturally, played his part rather well too (Even if him being the bad guy was rather obvious).
The voice they got for Mewtwo wasn't great either & the final act was... Bizzare.
The whole Bill turning into a Pokemon in Red and Blue is a really weird event that's never brought up in the games again from what I recall... So... The final act involving this by giving Mewtwo this power to merge a human's soul with a Pokémon's body seemed REALLY out of place to me other thenthe script needing the bad guy to have some kind of world changing villain plot.
The scene with Mr Mime was probably the best, and funniest, bit in the movie. Tim miming pouring gasoline over him and threatening to drop a match to get it to spill info was a lot more darkly humorous then I was expecting the film to get
The "Torterra garden" scene was pretty nice too (even if it went on for far too long).
Not bad but not fantastic either.
Honestly I thought the Sonic film was miles better though despite me being much more nostalgic and sentimental over Pokémon then the blue blur
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It’s been a while since I watched The Matrix, but I recall it being pretty decent at the time. However, I never watched any of the sequels, so that’s telling. I must not have liked it that much. 😄
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@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy it never ceases to amaze me quite how differently that people can react to various forms of art and entertainment. The Matrix (& The Matrix Reloaded… which is pretty universally loathed btw) absolutely rocked my world back when they released. I still make sure that I have a day free every couple of years when I watch the trilogy and all the Animatrix shorts.
I don't recall thinking much about the film when it orignally released to be honest but I definitely didn't consider it as badly as I did yesterday @colonelkilgore & @Th3solution!
Style over substance in my opinion... and it doesn't really have any style either
I think I watched one of the sequels that has the twins in but... Yeah not for me in the slightest 😅
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@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I also didn’t like The Matrix but I was about 8 years old and drank two whole banana milkshakes and was throwing them back up the whole night 😂
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yeah it’s just the way of things... there are probably a load of things you love that I can’t stand too. It’s just interesting how varied us humans’ likes and dislikes can be. I guess it’s why proper art and entertainment reviews in the academic realm never really state whether something is ‘good’ or ‘bad’... they just discuss technique and inspiration etc.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Some of the issue with The Matrix is probably that it was relatively novel for it’s time, but since then others have employed similar visual styles and special effects to a better degree.
I’ve also never been a huge fan of Keanu. He’s alright, but I think a tad bit overrated.
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Looks like No Time Die is coming to home viewing in the UK, at the normal more reasonable price, on 20/12/21. Probably won't get a chance to watch over the festive period, but will get to it as soon as I can in the new year.
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Finished watching the first Alien movie and overall, it was pretty good. At first I wasn't liking the movie because it just felt so stupid how they simply let the alien onto the ship. But then it was explained why that was the case and now it makes more sense. If there hadn't been a plot twist like that, then I would've definitely disliked the movie. But yeah, pretty good movie and it holds up rather well for a movie from 1979. Looking forward to watching the other ones now!
@RogerRoger Ted Logan from the Bill and Ted movies will always be my favorite implementation of Keanu as an actor. His character is both deeply good-natured and utterly empty-headed, which fits Keanu to a tee.
He's terrible in anything requiring actual acting chops, though, like Speed. He was the worst part of that movie.
@RogerRoger Both John Wick and Bill and Ted kind of tap into his inherently likability in different ways. With that said, while he's a good physical performer, I've never been fully convinced by his potential as an intimidating action star. Although the John Wick films are wisely designed around his limited acting abilities and sell us on the menace of his character through his physical prowess as an assassin.
With that said, he'll always be a dorky teenage metalhead to me:
@Keith_Zissou@MightyDemon82 Glad we got more Eggers fans on the site. Seems to be a step up from his previous films, both in terms of cast numbers and budget.
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