Topic: The Movie Thread

@LieutenantFatman No worries pal, I do love The Undiscovered Country.

If you're moving on to Generations (a pretty weak film if you analyse it, but I do like it), keep your eyes peeled for some TUC footage

@KALofKRYPTON You're right about WB chasing Marvel's/Disney money. Marvel took their time in developing their characters before assembling them into a team movie. DC just introduced their characters via CCTV footages.

I read a few days ago that the Birds of Prey movie will only start filming in early 2019. Is Affleck still attached to reprise his role as Batman? I think he's hesitant now because both BvS and JL were disappointing movies.

I thought Ezra Miller was okay as the Flash. My main issue was that he ran funny in that movie.lol

@WanderingBullet They could have gone straight in with a Justice League film based on the New 52 Justice League comic rather than world build first. that could've made a great film and WB wouldn't be so much on the back foot or throwing things out in a rush to try and make something stick.
WB are sadly home to the worst of reactionary exec's with very little vision beyond might make them quick $$$, especially when it comes to the DC movies.

Affleck is so done with Batman it hurts. You could see it during the press tours for BvS. He hated putting on the muscle and keeping in shape.
It's a shame too. He totally phones it in for most of Justice League, but he was great in BvS. It would have been nice to see him helm a solo outing.

Yep, the weird skating and arm flinging motion is horrible and silly - I'm not keen on annoying, comic releif Barry either.
The TV show has really nailed the Flash effects work

@KALofKRYPTON The reason I brought it up is because it just got reconfirmed yesterday.... and the Leto movie got confirmed two months ago. I feel like some viewers will be very confused. And I know it the Joker, but I think we get enough superhero movies as is. I hope your right about it seeing the last guy of day though.

@Jaz007 I don't think they will (get confused, I mean).

WB often thinks along the same lines, and it's just wrong really. It's not hard for the average person to understand that there are two films featuring different portrayals of the same character.

They use the excuse all the time while they stunt their TV output by saying that 'people would get confused' over having a movie and a TV version of something.
It's only because of how well the Berlanti shows turned out that we have any consistently good DC character representations on screen at all. Yet even with how good they are, how many characters they've been allowed to use, they're still not allowed to say 'Batman'. It's ridiculous.

WB kinda lost me when they weren't even allowed to call Superman that in Man of Steel.

@RogerRoger The Mummy films are awesome, if Universal wanted to create a Dark Universe of Monster Movies they should have just used them as the start and as they are set in the 30's-50's then you don't have to even bring back any of the cast

in fact if they had any sense they would retcon them into the Dark Universe because after all it was a different Mummy AND the Gold Book was also in the new film (as an easter egg yes but still it's a link that could be exploited)

on a side note the Tom Cruise film wasn't terrible, it's watchable but it's not great either

@RogerRoger i find it's a pretty decent "popcorn" flick, something you can put on to kill a few hours and as for Mission Impossible, yeah i'm looking forward to the new one too and it is a good series but i do wonder if they are maybe reaching the end, i can't see many more after this one being made

@JohnnyShoulder As @RogerRoger points out, they do - but it completely makes sense that it's not used much and follows the standard comic convention that Lois names him in the press and it sticks.

Interesting news: Neil Blomkamp is helming a RoboCop sequel!

I have mixed feelings. It's a soft sequel to the original film based on Numier and Miner's original sequel script (which is really, really awful) that is being rewritten by a guy who's writing and directing credits are pretty thin on the ground.

I think Blomkamp is a great choice to helm a RoboCop movie, but I also wish that they'd just leave it alone.

@KALofKRYPTON @RogerRoger Ouch of course you guys are correct. Sorry for get my facts mixed up and thanks for correcting me. Shows how long since I've watched the film lol.

In really do wish they would stop making sequels or remaking films that I grew up with. Very rarely they improve on the originals imo.

@JohnnyShoulder I know... I wouldn't mind so much if there were actually no new ideas out there, or at least unexploited literature and characters etc.

It's not even as if being a franchise or known commodity is a guarantee of financial (never mind creative) success. RoboCop, Ghostbusters, TMNT, The Mummy, Conan...

@RogerRoger He also did a halo jump in the latest Mission Impossible movie. His insurance company must be sweating bullets every time he does dangerous stunts.haha

@RogerRoger On top of that, the man can fly planes and helicopters too.

I found this interesting...

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-13-metal-gear-soli...

I did not know they were actually make a Metal Gear Solid movie. I remember the movie back in 2006 failing to gain much progress but was unaware that it had started back again in 2012.

The art work is quite cool. There is loads more content on the Twitter page mentioned in the article, and not just of art work but of gaming tat, tattoos etc.

I really like the art style from Yoji Shinkawa on the Metal Gear Solid games. So much so i might just make it my next framed picture to go up on my bedroom wall.

@JohnnyShoulder That’s pretty awesome. I must say, I’m surprised that Kojima and Konami are playing nice together to forward the project. Maybe all the internet rumor about their animosity toward one another is overblown.

@Th3solution Konami are probably terrified and Kojima probably doesn't want to see his baby slaughtered like almost every other video game that gets turned into a movie.

@JohnnyShoulder I love his art work as well. If your'e interested, there's a The Art of Metal Gear Solid I-IV coming out this August I believe.

@WanderingBullet Ah yeah saw that but didn't realise it wasn't released until August. Cheers.

Watched Dredd on Saturday. The 2012 one. So so good, very much enjoyed, another no nonsense dystopian future film, reminds me a bit of the excellence shown in Mad Max Fury Road.