I'm not usually very impressed by these Marvel films, but I really dug Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Granted, there's an inherent structural weakness in making it a direct sequel to a Disney Plus series, but the end result works out really well. The Scarlet Witch is a fantastic and frightening villain, and it really helps that they spent so much time chronicling her moral and psychological breakdown in previous films and series. I'm happy they pulled in Sam Raimi, because he does a great job of drawing from his previous horror work for this film: Multiverse of Madness feels closer to something like The Evil Dead than it does Spider-Man.
I will say, though, the power levels involved in these conflicts do make previous ones feel... small. Characters are literally tearing through different universes, punching holes through dimensions, etc.
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I watched King Kong (1976) on Pluto TV this morning.
Don't think I've seen this version before. Definitely feels like a proto version of a modern blockbuster at times, albeit still a bit B-movie in others. A bit slow to get going, although it picks up near the end. Kong gives Dwan (the kidnapped woman) these absolutely goofy grins from time to time that are unintentionally (?) funny which I thought was amusing, and being the 70's, they seemed to push showing as much of her skin as possible while still being a "PG" film (thought I even noticed a blink & you'll miss it nudity shot).
Interesting curiosity of the time.
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@LN78@BearsEatBeets Good news guys, my 4K Blu-ray of The Thing was fine. The UHD really brought the blood out in some scenes. 😬 Actually made an interesting watch after season 4 of Stranger Things.
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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.
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