@JohnnyShoulder I didn't watch it either, just made assumptions 😆Seems it's just a theatrical run for UK/Eire for now, but if the work has been put in for a restoration, surely a physical release can't be far behind? Fingers crossed (and also that it makes a theatrical appearance here in Norway as well, would love to see this on the big screen).
I mentioned "Battle Royale" in a post here quite recently and it seems I may have willed a similar thing for that into existence, as I just read it too is getting a special theatrical run with a 4K restoration soon. Fingers crossed for that one, too.
@Pizzamorg@FuriousMachine I watched Sinners over the weekend too! I was almost put off watching it when I heard someone say it was a musical, and although there are a couple of musical scenes I would not class it as a musical. And what was there, totally fitted in with what was happening, not just some random singing and dancing.
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@JohnnyShoulder@Pizzamorg One of my favourite scenes! Calling it a musical shows a lack of knowledge of what a musical is, IMO. I'm generally not a fan of the genre, but there are a couple I will go to bat for ("Moulin Rouge" most notably).
In "Sinners", a movie about the power of music, it would be weird if there hadn't been a couple of music scenes (I liked the vampire Irish jig scene, too!). There is just so much to like about that movie
Cheated a bit cause I am not sure I will be able to squeeze in a film around work tomorrow so I squeezed a second one in today. I watched Companion. It was fine. It is a movie about AI, that feels like it came from an AI prompt and it hurts my soul a bit how many people got gaslit into calling this feminist.
@Pizzamorg I loved it and I hate that the marketing (and then everyone else) puts the AI thing front and center. Should be a spoiler that, in my opinion. I managed to get a few friends seeing it without them knowing about it beforehand and while they mostly sussed out that something along those lines were going on before the actual reveal, they loved it.
Don't know how many are calling it feminist, but they would be off the mark. What it is is a clever little thriller/comedy with a lot of fun turns and bumbling characters. I also quite strongly disagree that it "feels like it comes from an AI prompt". It may not be the pinnacle of originality - what is these days, after all? - but it sure felt fresh enough to me.
And speaking of "AI written" movies, look no further than "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1" which managed to put "The Italian Job", "John Wick", and even the first "Mission: Impossible", along with other action films into a Temu level LLM and it spit out an egregiously derivative and insulting entry in an otherwise entertaining franchise.
No, "Companion" deserves better than that, in my opinion.
@FuriousMachine Yeah I dunno, I feel like I've seen this exact movie a good dozen times. The AI stuff could have at least given it some unique seasoning, but it was basically "what if we did Black Mirror but had nothing to say". Like again, I thought it was all perfectly solid, but the way people speak about this I just expected a lot more than such a basic cookie cutter movie.
@FuriousMachine It's actually classed as a musical, you wouldn't think it and I didn't but yeah it's genre defined as a musical even by the director. I like musicals and I've seen a lot of them on film and attended even more but I still wouldn't call Sinners a musical. It's closer to a rock opera but even then it's not there either. The term musical can dissuade a lot of people, that's why they didn't market it as a musical in the box office. They tried the same thing with Joker 2 (which is 100% a musical) and the fans rioted because they were sold on it being a regular movie and then got conned. Sinners turned out to be one of my favorite movies of the year, Weapons is up there two and I managed to avoided spoilers and context for both. If there were any other movies this year I've already forgotten them. I've got my fingers crossed for Predator: Badlands. The Running Man too and then that will be my 2025 more or less done.
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Saw the new Tron Ares, at the cinema few days ago.
Better than expected it to be, and thoroughly entertaining.
The story is complete nonsense, the visuals are stunning, and the music is just perfect for it.
@Pizzamorg Sure, I get that. Personally I felt the fact that she was an AI bot added to the proceedings and did add a subtle commentary on sentience and how we humans treat those perceived as having less agency than our selves. The movie doesn't hit you over the head with it, preferring to focus on being "just a movie", but it is there. How Iris interacts with the car is a great juxtaposition on how the others interacts with her - she defaults to treating it with kindness and respect because she doesn't see it as a machine, while others treat her as human simply to maintain what they perceive as an illusion.
@GirlVersusGame It is? Good grief... just goes to show how genre classifications are more or less useless these days and I'm happy that very few movies can be adequately described as belonging to a single genre. And multi-genre movies may sound good on paper... I mean, who wouldn't love a High-School Zombie Christmas Musical Comedy, and yet "Anna and the Apocalypse" was simply "meh" (it was the musical numbers that dragged it down. IMO... the only way they could have pulled this off was if the musical numbers were funny, ala "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blod", but they were simply pedestrian and thus failed to elevate an otherwise average movie).
I think my current top three are "Weapons", "Sinners" and "28 Years Later", with "Life of Chuck" and "Companion" vying for spots in the top 5....
I've got quite a few more to go before the cinema year wraps for me: "Black Phone 2", "Roofman", Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein", "Orwell: 2+2=5", "Good Boy", "Predator: Badlands", Osgood Perkins' "Keeper" (looks fantastic!), "The Running Man", "Sisu: The Road to Revenge", "Zootopia 2" and "Anaconda" are all movies I'm hoping to catch on the big screen this year. "Roofman", "Frankenstein" and "Keeper" are the ones I feel may have a shot at cracking the top 3, but we'll see, I may be surprised
@FuriousMachine Yeah you can't trust a lot of classification now if it has a theatrical release because there is a deliberate effort to mildly con the consumer (if it benefits ticket sales) and there's no real push-back against it. It's a direct consequence from the competition of streaming. I forgot about 28 Years Later, I did actually like that. I've been catching up on games more than movies, and I still have to watch Alien Earth. The last movie was great, extra points for offering a limited edition VHS release too. I haven't caught the 4K bug yet, it loses a little nostalgia if it's too perfect.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@GirlVersusGame I liked "Alien Romulus" more than many others, but I had some issues with it (what I now consider "the heavy hand of Ridley Scott" chief among them) and I'm happy to say I found "Alien: Earth" to be far superior to anything released in the franchise since the original 3. It's not perfect and I won't go into my issues with it for fear of colouring your own impressions, but I hope you'll like it.
VHS vs 4K, can't say I miss the former, nostalgia or not Watched the first half of the extended edition of "The Towers" in the dark last night, from a transfer that has been touted as "reference quality" and Oh My Godzilla it was beautiful! I'm not looking back, but I am wary of poor transfers and AI upscaling.
Watched Gonjiam. I have come around as a found footage enjoyer over the years, but I thought this was very meh. Kinda reminiscent of Dead Stream in that if you are going to do the found footage narrative of "We are intentionally faking it but oh my god I didnt fake that is this really real after all?!" thing, your effects have got to be absolutely flawless, or your filmic construction has to flawlessly hide the effects rough edges, and in both cases the films fail to do that, and the big twists in both just kinda crashed and burned for me because of it for me.
Iconic poster artist Drew Struzan passed away yesterday. Having been obsessed with movie posters for as long as I can remember (and having quite a bunch of them in storage), I've been a fan of his for a long time. His posters were truly special. R.I.P.
@JohnnyShoulder The Descent 20th anniversary edition drops in the US in November.
Not sure about Europe yet, but Lionsgate Limited titles such as the Jackie Brown steelbook released with identical releases in both markets, albeit with region coded Blu-Rays for each market.
Lionsgate is getting ready to announce their November slate of 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray titles, which will include Neil Marshall’s The Descent: 20th Anniversary Edition (2006) 4K + BD Steelbook (including both versions via seamless branching as well as both new and legacy special features)—that’s a Lionsgate Limited exclusive.
@JohnnyShoulder Agreed, and it feels almost inevitable, right? Either Lionsgate releases it themselves or through licensing. Doing neither sounds like leaving money on the table in today's fairly vibrant 4K market. My guess? The Region B announcement comes on the tail end or soon after the limited cinema run across the UK & Ireland starting next week.
I feel like for these releases the UK is on a month or two delay(?) to the US, so i'd be confident we get it.
Also, if the Steelbook does get announced at Zavvi or HMV... buy it instantly, Mr. Shoulder, I can sense this one is going to be popular! Lionsgate seem to do some good art that morphs with the slip/sleeve
I was actually in a bit of a steelbook mood tonight, so I took the plunge on Jacob's Ladder, as it hasn't sold out yet, and I noticed while perusing that Tombstone was an embossed/debossed affair (which is like crack to me.) Anyway, I finally succumb to temptation, you'll be glad to know, haha 😬
You must alert me to any embossed/debossed steels in future, guys! You can't just say "buy it" and leave out that massive detail!
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