Top Gun Maverick. It basically had no right being as good as it was. After the cheese-fest that was the original, this was a genuine bona-fide action film through and through. The sort of movie I thought they stopped making about 25 years ago. It made my mum cry but she apparently saw the original at the Odeon 6 times back in the day and rented it at Blockbuster every other weekend and also had a massive poster of Tom Cruise on her wall. If you’ve seen it, you can probably guess what part made her cry.
@LN78 Indeed. I only got Donnie Darko 4K after Arrow sorted out the discs. Have you seen the new steelbook of of the first Indiana Jones movie? Now I'm not bothered about steelbooks either way, but this is so much better than ones you get with the box set.
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@JohnnyShoulder Glad your The Thing 4K was okay. After getting quite a few of my favourite films in 4K when I got my PS5 I'm getting much more selective as to which films are worth an upgrade from the Blu-ray. I just wish James Cameron would find the time to oversee the transfer of some of his films. I would really like an Aliens and Terminator 2 4K. I know there are T2 4ks out there but I've heard they're not very good. Plus I don't think The Abyss has been available since VHS.
@BearsEatBeets Yeah I'm trying to only buy movies in 4K that are my faves, and most of them are from the eighties, nineties and noughties as I think you notice the upgrade more. Saying that I got Universal Soldier that is nowhere near one my faves but really enjoyed it when I got round to watching it, and was really impressed with the visual upgrade.
Looks like James Cameron is busy making 20 Avatar movies at the moment. I'm not sure how good it will be having his name attached to the 4K releases of his films though, as apparently the botched Teminator 2 he oversaw in some capacity. But it looks like they won't happen without him signing off on them.
@JohnnyShoulder Yeah I think you see more of the improvement in older films. I remember watching something a while back about how modern day CGI special effects are only created in HD as it would take too much processing power to do it in 4K. So a lot of these effects heavy films are just upscaling anyway.
I'm kind of hoping the botched T2 he let out is the reason why he won't allow any more of his films to be done without his direct oversite. But yeah, he's going to be tied up with Avatar for years to come.
@LN78 I must have missed the dvd of The Abyss, it's certainly been a long time since I've seen it. With Disney now owning Fox I thought it might have got added to Plus but nothing yet. Still it took a while for the Alien and the Predator films to appear on there.
Just finished watching Prometheus for the first time. It wasn't as scary as I thought it'd be. Granted, none of the Alien movies after the first one were scary but I had hoped this one would be. The movie had at least a very interesting plot and the characters were much more likeable compared to all the obnoxious and cheesy ones from e.g. Aliens. It also helped that there were some great actors in it, such as Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba. And some of the scenes were absolutely grotesque, it was insane. Really good stuff though.
Overall, I really enjoyed Prometheus and I'm looking forward to watching Alien: Convenant next.
@LN78 Jeeeeez, so many 1 stars is not a good sign at all. And exactly, they’re all publications which recognise decent action flicks such as Top Gun 2, the Mission Impossible movies and such.
@LN78 Blimey that is bad. Any idea what they gave the last 2 Jurassic films? I thought they were entertaining enough films and pretty sure they reviewed okay. This one it seems might be quite a mess.
I finally got around to watching The Blind Side the other night and really enjoyed it. Funnily enough had it's weakest moments with the actual football but thought it was well told overall and an interesting (real life) story.
With them announcing a Thunderbolts movie, I think I’m finally over Marvel. The direction they’ve been going in has been incredibly uninteresting since the initial buzz around WandaVision and Loki. To now do a movie which will inevitably have Florence Pugh front and centre, and lack actual Thunderbolt Ross because William Hurt died, it’s just not really the sort of thing I want to watch at all. It’s crazy to me that with all the characters at their disposal, including the X-Men, Fantastic Four and so forth, they choose to do yet another movie with D tier characters. Especially when the ones rumoured to be in it are 90% just random military types like Yelena Belova, Winter Soldier, Taskmaster, U.S.Agent and so forth. Rant over.
@nessisonett I just stopped caring about it all. I've watched a bit of Wandavison and although it was not bad or anything, I just wasn't interested enough to keep watching. I'm the same with Star Wars too.
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@nessisonett yeah, it seems like they're deliberately waiting for the dust to settle on Endgame before going full in with the characters obtained from Fox.
The Avengers vs X-Men has to be the next big event, assuming the Fantastic Four will be part of the former.
I've recently watched the mainline Avengers films (inc my second favourite Civil War) and they're really good but almost too good and too final, needed to take a slower pace.
Of the Disney shows, finished Loki the other day and this might be my favourite. I did enjoy both Wandavision and Falcon & Soldier, but Loki really did add a lot to the character and was very entertaining.
The last Marvel movie I watched was Endgame in the cinema. I enjoyed it, but kind of feel that it was a good way to finish off the franchise, Same with Star Wars RoS, haven't bothered with D+. As much I enjoy both universes, as a 40 y/o man I'm looking to experience newer more grittier worlds with real consequences which I feel is missing from Marvel/Star Wars under the Disney banner.
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