Topic: Movie thread.

Yeah, he's been in several of the MI series, @Fizza ....

@TheJGG Agreed, if your not a Star Wars fan really, and just need some films to entertain
You, then they will probably get the job done.

Just so sad what they did do those characters, I remember the hyped too, Finn in my opinion was also wasted.

@Rambler Hell yeah.

Hey, _{what about Solo: a star wars story}

There's plenty of smart films out there, you just need to turn off those movie about space wizards, the jaunty costumed hero who will hit the bad people until good wins and the fast car driving fast to find them.

No one really talks about it, but I thought it was waay Better then the sequels.

@Rambler Wow sounds like a saga, not my cup of tea, but heck look at Shakespeare. (blood and guts I mean)

I watched Mr. Mom, it's really good, and I think it's probably the most realistic portrayal of parents I've ever seen in a film. (and Batman and Doc Brown were in it for all us nerds)

edit (i meant shakespeare had blood and guts and deep storys, idk if you got what i was saying)

Metal Skin Panic: Madox 01 - Short OVA film (it's like only 41 minutes) that sees a young civilian mechanic getting stuck in a prototype US Army mecha, trying to flee from the authorities (including a hot shot tank operator who wants to destroy the mecha instead of repatriating it) in an effort to meet up with his girlfriend before she sets out to leave the country.

Definitely one for fans of retro & mecha anime. If you can put up with the SD resolution, the attention to detail paid to all the military tech is a sight to behold, and it's a pretty quickly paced romp.

Spies Like Us - Chevy Chase & Dan Akroyd play a pair of bumbling government employees who get a surprise when they're quickly promoted to master spies & sent out on a top secret mission (unaware that they're just decoys meant to keep attention off the real spies).

Never seen it before, and while it doesn't live up to the likes of Vacation or Ghostbusters, it was worth a few chuckles (kind of felt like a more gag reliant take on Stripes).

@RR529 Paul McCartney has a single for Spies Like Us, that I like.

Today/Last night I watched The Last Starfighter it was cheesy

The film is really fun and Robert Preston, even though he's barely in it but he's awesome. The early 3D in the film was also lovely.

6/10 Really fun

So I saw doctor strange a few days ago, and it was................ fine?

My problems all boil down to the same thing. It seemed rushed. Wanda instantly becoming a villain, the Illuminati being killed,etc. this could have been an amazing film if it was longer, but they just don’t have enough run time in the movie to make things work.

Has anyone seen the movie Big Fish? It was directed by Tim Burton and starred Ewan MacGregor and Albert Finney, plus Billy Crudup. It’s such a heartwarming film with a memorable cast of characters. It’s like Forrest Gump (an older man retelling his life story, which seems impossibly crazy but is largely true) on a little bit of steroids. One of his more underrated films.

@TheJGG It's been a while since I saw it but it reminded more of Princess Bride or Stardust than Forest Gump. It was a very nice change from Tim Burton's usual boring films of him just getting established works and then just makes it spooky and kooky.

@blindsquarel Lol that's actually the reason I liked it as I hate this modern blockbuster thing of having to be three hours long now. It's one thing if it's a dense film but it's popcorn movies and more often than not it's added time as they assume the audience are idiots so it needs to constantly repeat the same exposition over and over and over and over and over and over again to explain what's going on and have their hand held whilst the movie slowly walk them through any kind of plot development which also seems counterintuitive to having a film universe so you can know and understand these characters before the film even starts.

@blindsquarel, I think the complaint about the abruptness of Wanda's turn is a bit overblown. She was clearly shown to becoming entranced by the Dark Hold during the WandaVision post credits scene. Sure, requiring the audience to watch a miniseries to get the full scope of the film's narrative is certainly an angle that can be criticised, but if you have seen the show it doesn't take long to put 2+2 together and see what's happened.

As for killing off the illuminati, that's a whole lot of nothing. They literally just introduced a new character who can (now freely) hop the multiverse at will, so they can bring back any of those characters anytime they feel like with other variants (or the main universe's own versions, when it comes to a couple of them). They really weren't that important to this film other than for the fanservice, so expounding upon them would have largely been bloat.

@jump Fair comparison, I can definitely see why you'd compare it to Stardust. That movie's also pretty underrated for me, it's a really fantastic blend of a fairy tale, love story, scenery show-off, and a "magic in our world" feeling. The action scenes are pretty good too, and the writing is insanely clever, both of which are tell-tale signs of Matthew Vaughn. He's like the better twin brother of Guy Ritchie.

Big Fish was a typical Tim Burton film though. It had the off-kilter protagonists and characters, it had the modern setting, it had the spooky and kooky moments, it had (in most of his films) no clear villain, it had Danny Elfman scoring, it had a strained father-son relationship, it had asymmetrical, wonky architecture, and it also had Helena Bonham Carter. No Johnny Depp, curiously.

@RR529 yep, it kinda surprising how many people didn’t put that together despite them saying it corrupts people and shows how it made the other Stranges very naughty boys. The movie needed a 10 minute scene where Doctor Strange looks at the camera and then points at the Darkhold repeatedly and says “look at book, that book is very bad, bad book makes people bad, Wanda bad now, Wanda remembers being good so she murders bad book’ so maybe people can figure it out for themselves.

Her history is that of someone who never actually wanted to be a super hero. She willingly working for Nazis, teams up with the Avengers only when she realises her obviously evil robot boss is evil, when she (illegally?) moves to America she decides she doesn’t like complying with the rules which were introduced due to her recklessly killing people so joins a renegade group breaking international law, joined in the fight with Thanos only because he killed her boyfriend and then enslaved an entire town for her own selfish reasons. Yet somehow people thinks she’s a goody two shoes lol.

My only real complaint about the movie was how poorly written Peggy was, she seemed to have become very arrogant and her introduction was to throw her shield around like when an insecure man wants to swing their penis around to be an alpha which is very non Peggy/Captain America like.

@TheJGG Vaughn used the be Ritchie’s producer before he went off on his own to make Layer Cake.

I listened to a podcast with Guy Ritchie and he’s surprisingly more deep (or pretentious depending on your outlook) and was very focused on talking about philosophy, the meaning of life and history which is odd for a man that makes geezer gangster bang bang films.

@jump When your an Avenger laws don't mean anything lol.

(tbh I'm getting sick of Marvel films/shows)

@RR529
I don’t think you get what I am saying. I don’t think killing the illuminate or Wanda becoming a villain was a bad thing. I just think they were very rushed in the film. Especially the illuminate. They felt like fan service and nothing more.
@jump
Well when I say it should be longer, I am assuming that they would be good additions and not just filler. But if you went into the movie expecting it to be a popcorn movie and nothing more, then I could see it being a great movie. But I feel like they could have done a lot more with the movie then they did.

Was looking at a few old movies in the past 8 months, like mario bros, wasn't great. Street fighter was good, even though most of the story was nothing to do with fighting scenes.. looked at the First resi movie it wasn't bad. But it was enough of them. Do not think the female character suited the film. Micro men now that was written very well, So good I bought it on DVD. Going to look at the computer generated resi movie ( think it was made in japan ) looks good and I really prepare Chris redfield in resi. Never posted here before so hello, everyone. Don't think I put any spoilers here.

@blindsquarel Eh? It's a Marvel film of course you should be expecting a popcorn movie, if it wasn't then it's failed.

@jump
Superhero movies can be great. Spider-Man 2, into the spider verse, and the dark knight all show that. I’m not gonna hold the movie to a different standard, just because it is a superhero movie.