@GirlVersusGame Yeah, it's a solid teaser, this, and I think I'll leave it with this being the only one I see before the movie comes out. I already know I will see the movie, and this did nothing to dissuade me
Don't know if you know, but there was a tie-in game released when the first Predator movie came out in '87, but I never got around to playing it. Apparently, four more games were made between now and then, most recently a multiplayer thing in 2020. I have no idea if it is any good or not; mp is not my thing.
Just finished watching the new Gareth Evans movie 'Havoc' with Tom Hardy. Really enjoyed it. Takes a bit to get going but the back half of the movie is non-stop action.
Maybe not quite as good as the Raid films, but a lot of fun.
@MightyDemon82 Glad to hear it, looking forward to that one! Also reminds me, I keep sleeping on The Raid 2, for some reason. I really love the first one (even have the 4K steelbook), so I have no idea why I seem to never get around to the sequel. I'm just weird, I guess
@GirlVersusGame You may or may not have noticed it in the Predator: Badlands teaser (it passed me by), but Elle Fanning is apparently playing a Weyland-Yutani synthetic, so the Alien connection lives Someone paused the teaser on that shot revealing she's a synthetic and the Weyland-Yutani logo can be seen in her eyes. Thought that was fun
@MightyDemon82 I saw that last night too! I thought it was only ok though as it felt like there someting off with the fight scenes? They were very viloent though, which is a good thing in my books. I would rate it below stuff like my favourite John Wick films (1 and 3), Atomic Blone and the Exteaction films.
@FuriousMachine The Raid is ace, but did not enjoy the sequel as much. Still had some incredible set pieces, but there was too much exposition for my liking. I always find it funny the the first film came out near Judge Dredd and how similar they are to each other.
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@GirlVersusGame Been long since I saw Hard Target, so long that I didn't even remember that Henriksen was in it! Reason for that is JVCD, which I really cannot stand, but that is one of the movies with him that I don't hate (Universal Soldier is another one, mainly because of the beating he gets from Lundgren )
I liked Millennium, but not nearly as much as I could. Plenty of missed opportunities with that series.
Lance Henriksen is a legend! The Quarry was always going to be a day one for me, but when I found out that they got both Henriksen and Lin Shaye in it, excitement levels went through the roof
@FuriousMachine I know you have expressed skepticisim ,with regard to biopics before, but this is an English rock band (Slade) (more your sort of genre than Robbie Williams ,at least) playing a fictionalised version of themselves, and a dark and satirical take on the music industry, compared to the Beatles' more light-hearted fare.
N.B If you are already familiar with them from their very famous Christmas song, no joky references to it please, as a Brit, I've heard thousands throughout my life. 😉
Do you think you could be tempted to watch the film?
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@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I vaguely remember the band from my very young years, they were quite popular in Norway as well, though at that time you couldn't persuade me to listen to anything but Kiss (and the Smurfs... I was quite young; grew out of both later). I remember the sister of a friend of mine being a rabid fan, had posters all over her room and would try to get us to listen to them. I was never converted. I mean, they didn't even wear make-up masks. I mean, come on!
This movie does look quite fun, definitely wouldn't mind watching it
@AgentCooper Yeah, definitely horror. Haven't seen it since it came out, but remember liking it quite a bit. Absolutely a movie I will see again and soon
Recently watched Chantal Akerman's early experimental documentary Hotel Monterey, a totally silent film - and I mean totally silent - where she explores the rooms and corridors of the titular hotel where she first stayed when she moved to New York. An amazing exploration of time and space, this also has the hallmarks of her trademark style firmly in place, which is incredible considering she was only 22 when she made this. This isn't close to what I'd call entertaining and it certainly isn't for everyone, but I loved this and think it's worth the effort.
I also watched The Last Showgirl, directed by Gia Coppola, Francis's granddaughter, which stars Pamela Anderson as the faded star of an old school Las Vegas showgirl revue which is about to close due to dwindling audiences. She gives an amazing performance in this gentle character study that reminded me a lot of Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits. If you don't give any credit to Anderson as an actor, and I really didn't after seeing Barb Wire (though I admire the balls of that film to adapt Casablanca in such an insane way), I guarantee this film will change your mind.
I noticed playing Dragon Age Inquisition, there is a particular cave. With a lot of dead bodies (skeletons) outside of it. Somewhere in the first large (semi-open world) area that you travel to.
The only thing in this cave is a Nug (the Dragon Age equivalent of a small harmless rodent).
@AgentCooper I think "casual indifference" is the default setting for youths when introduced to things we old folks like and it is there so that it is easily noticeable when we actually manage to engage them in something they like
No screenings here, looks like. A theatre chain here regularly screen classics (I saw "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein" last year) and seems like they have posted their program of classics for the rest of the year. No "Holy Grail" there, but every now and then, some re-releases hit wider, like "Se7en" earlier this year, so here's hoping it will show up later.
Some really good ones on the program, though: "Blade Runner: Final Cut" and "Blade Runner: 2049" double bill, "Big Lebowski", "Lost in Translation", "Heat" and "Die Hard" are all movies I'll consider giving a re-watch on the big screen
Saw an early screening of Final Destination: Bloodlines last night.
The Final Destination series is, along with Scream, my favourite horror franchise and I think it only has one really weak entry (2009's The Final Destination was unfortunately severely hampered by catering to the 3D craze of the time and has not aged well).
After having seen the first teaser showing one of the elaborate death sequences from the film, I was satisfied that they had not forgotten what the series were all about, so I've spent many a minute with closed eyes and fingers in my ears at the cinema during the previews before other horror movies to avoid seeing anything else from this new entry.
It had a lot to live up to, in other words.
And boy, did it deliver! This is exactly what a Final Destination movie should be: A huge opening disaster/premonition, a bunch of characters slated for elaborate and gnarly deaths while also adding to the lore of the series, tying things together with the other films. And on the topic of gnarly deaths, this one has some of the best (and funniest) of the series, hands down.
For me, this one steps up on the podium with 1 & 2 to round out the top 3 of the series.
It also had a nice "In memory of Tony Todd" at the end, but his cameo was hard to watch. He was clearly ailing when filming this and seeing him so thin and frail broke my heart. R.I.P. Tony 😢
I've also seen other movies on the big screen these last few weeks:
Death of a Unicorn - A very fun and bloody modern fairy tale with a fantastic cast led by Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd. While the satire doesn't work all that well, it nevertheless provides plenty of entertainment, mainly due to the incredibly game cast. Tea Leoni and Will Poulter really steals this show and Richard E. Grant is good, but maybe a little too close to a cartoon villain.
Thunderbolts* (or "* New Avengers", if you prefer) - Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova is a favourite of mine, so I was really looking forward to this. Easily the best MCU movie in a long time and it actually tackles some mental issues in a surprisingly good way, but billing it as a Thunderbolts movie was a disservice. It is nowhere near the source material, character wise or conceptually. They also do one of the characters dirty early on in the movie, much to my annoyance. Still, those niggles aside, I really liked it, but this is probably not the movie to revitalise the MCU for the ones who've become indifferent (or haters).
Until Dawn - This one was a huge nothingburger. A lot of people questioned why we needed an "Until Dawn" movie, and it's a good question, to which I'll answer: There's never enough horror movies, so any excuse to make one is fine by me. This one, though, failed to make a mark. It's not bad, in that it is competently made with great set pieces, cool creatures, make-up and effects and a decent cast, but the main problem is that the concept severely undercuts any sense of peril for the characters caught in this. The result is just a large yawn occasionally interrupted with a fun scene or two (the bathroom scene: Awesome!).
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