@Fragile If it was something like the MTV Awards i would agree with you. But I don't think they are that desperate for viewers to pull a stunt like that.
And Will Smith has since come out and apologised to Chris Rock.
The more I've thought about the more I think Will Smith was more in the wrong. The joke was in bad taste, but nothing more than that, and wasn't even that bad. He should have just said something behind the scenes.
Of course it it easy to say all that in hindsight and I understand when emotions are running people can do things they later regret. But it does come across like a mollycoddled celebrity being a bit out of touch with what goes on in the real world.
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@JohnnyShoulder obviously he caught his wife’s reaction, felt crappy for laughing and by the time he knew what he was doing he was committed to walking up on stage. I think he realised what he was doing was messed up as he got there which is why he didn’t hit him with a closed fist lol.
I still think that’s what happens sometimes when you run your mouth in real life, we are all used to doing it on twitter and forums with no consequences 😂
@LN78 I see there is a sweet Texas Chaninsaw Massacre 4K set (the original Tobe Hooper one) available, but currently only in Germany. Hopefully it comes to the UK soon!
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I went to see Uncharted tonight and I’m happy to report it surpassed my expectations - not that they were very high in the first place
It’s an OK movie for the most part but ends in a properly epic sequence worthy of the source material (and not just lifted from any of the games either).
I had a decent time.
@nessisonett@LN78 It gets better each time I see it. Not seen it too many times though as I don't wanna ruin it. Probably more funny than most standalone comedies released since it came out.
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@LN78 I put it in the same bracket as films such as Joker in that I thought it was well crafted and the actors were all really good. I just didn’t find the experience that enjoyable.
Boiling Point - now on Netflix (certainly in UK...not sure about other countries)
Corker of a film, stars Stephen Graham as a head chef - having one of the most stressful nights of his life whilst at work. Nice 90 minute length, and remarkably the entire film is shot in ONE TAKE (!).
Really great, very grounded and some terrific performances. The drama is very very tense, and even moreso for the movie being grounded in 'realism'.
I liked The Batman a lot, but it definitely had its issues. Tonally, it evens out a bit over the course of the film, but it opens HARD with the moody goth vibe. That, combined with Batman's Rorshach-esque narration and that sequence where he's beating up the thugs in the subway or whatever with booming music, actually cracked me up at first. It was all a bit much.
The Riddler is... I dunno. I'm fine with a gritty take on the character, to an extent, but he just felt like something out of a Saw film or Se7en. This director feels like they want to be David Fincher.
Everything after they catch The Riddler is pure rubbish, too.
With all that said, the central mystery is mostly pretty good, and the film's tone evens out into something more acceptable as it goes on. This is also probably my favorite cinematic version of Selina Kyle to date. She really nailed the character.
TDK and Batman Begins will probably never be topped for me as far as Batman films go, but this was a VERY nice treat after years of same-y, crowd-pleasing Marvel rubbish and terrible adaptations of DC's other properties (I kinda like Wonder Woman, but the sequel has mostly poisoned my feelings about the first one).
@LN78 Riddler stuff aside, the thing is there's already a lot of ways in which the tone of a dark Batman story overlaps with the tone of a Fincher film, so it wasn't that offensive to me. I found the Scorsese fan film 'Joker' to be much more ripe for ridicule at the end of the day.
Although we did get this gem out of it, at least:
Also, I liked what this film did with its Batman/Catwoman dynamic, and the mystery storytelling itself was good.
Penguin wasn't bad, either.
And the cinematography is frequently VERY nice to look at.
@Ralizah Unless I missed it, I would love to read what you thought of WW84 in more detail. I'm willing to suspend disbelief up to a certain point, especially when it comes to super hero flicks, but this one went a bit too far for me.
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Encanto - I wasn't sure if it'd appeal to me going in, but I had a fun time with it. A good number of the songs are stuck in my head if nothing else, lol.
X Men Origins: Wolverine - There seem to be a few possible continuity discrepancies based on the other X Men films (though I know the latter Days of Future Past acts as sort of a slate cleanser), and then there's whatever the heck it did to Deadpool, but overall it's a competent action movie on it's own. Not the greatest thing in the world or anything, but there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.
@LN78 Logan is basically what I wish The Last of Us had been. Although my admiration for it, and X-Men in general, is still rather distant. I can say it's a good movie, but I didn't have any sort of emotional reaction to it.
See, here's the thing. Despite the painfully obvious Fincher influence, The Batman still feels like a batman story. It's not like Joker, which was a prestige film (and non-self aware parody of an early Scorsese film) disguised as a comic book movie.
I haven't seen HBO's Watchmen, because the impression I have, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, is that the IP is being used as a vehicle to deliver a largely unrelated ideological screed about American racism.
@JohnnyShoulder I'd love to go into more detail on the criticisms I had of it at the time, but, perhaps somewhat damningly, it turns out the film is forgettable. My memories are hazy at best.
What I can say is this: the film's entire first... 20 or so minutes?... are totally pointless. The film should have started with the fight in the mall.
The film never commits to a tone and fleshes it out.
The narrative momentum of the plot falls apart as the film goes on.
The 1980s setting is so underdeveloped it doesn't even serve as good window-dressing. As such, it doesn't even succeed as nostalgia bait, which is what it was heavily advertising itself as.
I also recall most of the fights being boring.
@Sorteddan I generally hate SNL, but every once in a while, one of their skits really lands. Although I'm sure it helps that the marketing for Joker was dancing on the edge of self-parody as is.
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