Topic: Movie thread.

Christian bale will always be Batman. Same as Tobey Maguire will always be Spider-Man. Nobody will beat them.

The Batman is fine, a tad too water downed Fincher for my taste.

Although it’s really just 2+ hours of watching Batman repeatedly failing until he gets juiced up enough to beat some random nameless henchmen and then pats himself on the back for saving the day whilst the city is destroyed.

Watched "Nobody" this past weekend.

Probably the best action movie I've watched in quite a while.

The last action movie I enjoyed this much was 2012's Dredd.

I watched Blown Away (1994) the other day. Tommy Lee Jones is an Irish mad bomber in Boston and Jeff Bridges plays a bomb disposal expert who squares off with him. It's a decent action flick, but it's worth it to see Jones completely chew the scenery. Whoever cast him as Two Face in Batman Forever must've seen this movie.

@OldManHermit - bet that's got some quality accents in it

Free Guy - Comedy set within a GTA like video game where NPC Guy (Ryan Reynolds) becomes self aware. Nothing remarkable, but it was a fun time IMO.

Star Wars: the Last Jedi - I've been watching through all the Star Wars movies in chronological order (generally one a month), and while I'll probably get guff for this, so far I've thought the sequels have been fine. They certainly have their issues (probably more of a budget/tech thing, but it does seem their grasp of the Force becomes ever so more superhero-esque with each successive trilogy), but as far as popcorn flicks go I haven't regretted watching them. I think TLJ probably is the lesser of the two for me (it's a bit slow for a popcorn flick IMO, and while TFA is a bit more derivative I think it's generally a bit more fun). I will say I think the way they killed off Luke was a bit lame, but I'm not going to get up in arms about it.

Turning Red - This was a pretty fun time. Don't think I'm quite the target audience for it, but I enjoyed it.

X-Men: the Last Stand - I haven't read the comics, but I thought this was fine (I certainly didn't enjoy it particularly less than the first two). That said, they definitely seemed to write themselves into a corner by effectively ending the stories of multiple characters, so I'm interested in seeing how they retcon some of it. I think they bring back a few killed characters due to a butterfly effect in Days of Future Past if I recall correctly, though Xavier ends TLS in a new body and I think he starts out (DoFP) still in "Patrick Stewart's" body before that takes effect, so I'm not sure if that's ever explained.

the Shape of Water - Probably the most unconventional take on a "Beauty & the Beast" style narrative I've ever encountered (I really kept thinking, "did they really just go there!", lol). That said I liked the period piece sci-fi/cold war espionage angle & thought it was a very interesting watch overall.

@RR529 Ohhhh, I've got so much guff, I'm not sure there's enough room to fit it all in one post.😁jk.

Of the new Star Wars, I've rewatched The Force Awakens the most, but I have a hard time with han solo getting killed, it's such a sad moment. I think the recent sequels have a certain excitement to them. I'm not saying they're better than other star wars, but I still like them. They've got some amazing, cool AF sci-fi visuals and design that just make me say, "wow", when I see them. I'm glad we got some new star wars with new modern effects.

Watched no time to die the other week. It's okay isn't it? Stuff happens, and things go bang. Better than Spectre, as this seemed to have a narative linking the scenes.
Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch were both really cool.
Still puzzled by the Marcel Proust reference.

@Rambler I'd say it was okay too, pretty much as forgettable as Spectre except that Daniel Craig is definitely not gonna play Bond again. Other than that, i would think that the movie could have done fine, being a bit shorter. It's the usual bond stuff though, some bang, some irony and entertaining enough for me

@Rambler It bugs me it's been 15 years and 4 movies since Casino Royale and he's still obsessing over Eva Green. I'm glad this Bond is dead as he's like an emo anti-social teenager that can't keep their job and won't shut up about his lost love. Can't Bond just watch any other Eva Green movie to be happy as she's normally got her kit off in them? ;p

Ana de Armas and her set pieces was great though and the highlight of the film for me. I would have loved for her to have more screen time.

Eva Green is quite the hottie however…..

Ana de Armas really rocked, best Bond Girl ever.

Watched it last weekend, definitely a great action movie! You didn't enjoy the John Wick movies that much? This movie is written by the same writer, though they don't have the same directors.

@PSVR_lover, @Solaine, @Jump

I did actually enjoy it, but it was indeed far too long. One of the things I find strange in Bond films is the lack of jeopardy, but I guess that is part of the charm.

There's a interesting bit towards the end of Spectre, where Bond looks overjoyed at the prospect of getting tooled up to take on the bad guys, and Swann walks away. (However they then spoiled it by making the end a rescue the princess story.). That bit of him should've been kept if he's going to settle down and not be a spy (he went rogue in License to kill, didn't he?). But it was him just moping in pretty surroundings.

I couldn't detect the hand of PW-B unless it was to do with Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch actually being in the film and doing things. They were the best characters in it as well.

Lea Seydoux seemed to spend the film whispering "James" which I thought was a nice bit of continuity (and she was wasted in that role).

And what's with the bad guys having facial scarring? Its not the 70s.

They could do a Bond multiverse couldn't they?

@Rambler that was gonna happen at one point in the 80/90s. There was a script where it would have had Sean Connery, Roger Moore etc all team up together, as James Bond was just a codename to the best agent and there was gonna be something so big they would need all the Bonds to stop it. I can’t remember the reason it was never made but I reckon it was probably too much money for all of those actors.

It’s a shame it never happened, I would have loved to see Sean Connery slap Daniel Craig around shouting at him to stop being a moody emo kid.

@jump
If it was scripted by Catherine Breillat and directed by Gaspar Noe then I would be totally up for it.

@Rambler Nah, I don't want thought provoking art house creators near a Bond film.

Bond is a series of films about a toff who's job at the government is to kill people but his drinking, gambling and sex addiction often take him on detours from the mission so get Micheal Bay in!!! ;p

I've only just found out that Turning Red is a Disney+ exclusive. I've thought it was in cinemas for the past month. Well god damnit ._.

@jump - it would work. A film about a man utterly addicted to sex and murder, with an ego the size of a planet.
With all Bonds appearing, it would be a deconstruction into who Bond loves the most: himself (and yes, I mean that)
Filmed in a series of long takes, complete with violent strobing images, 20hz bass tones, and all one-liners flashed up on the screen in huge sans-serif lettering.

And Megan Fox in shorts

@Rambler Haha, almost sounds like a description of the film American Psycho.