Topic: Movie thread.

Unpopular opinion, I like the 2019 logo.
I already mentioned the opening animation

I was just made aware that Furiosa is currently filming. With Anya Taylor-Joy playing Furiosa and Chris Hemsworth playing Immortan Joe. Should be interesting; I thought Fury Road was quite good. Although all of this Mad Max stuff makes me want the 2015 game on Switch. A very underappreciated but quite good open world game.

@Magician I've seen some of the set photos and... I do not like Mad Max but seeing Chris Hemsworth in a giant red beard is kinda funny.

Watched a couple movies today.

Deadpool - Continuing my trip through all the FOX X-Men films. Oh so very raunchy, and a thoroughly good time. Actually managed to be a bit emotional at times too.

National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation - Last of the Vacation movies (before the reboot). It's pretty much more of the same at this point, but another excuse to let Chevy Chase & (especially) Randy Quaid ham it up certainly isn't unwelcome. While the film's version of Rusty is pretty middle of the road, I think it might have my favorite Audrey.

Saw Prey, the new Predator movie yesterday.
It was pretty good, definitely the best Predator movie since the original. Tense, gory and some great action scenes. Loved the setting of native America.

Watched Lightyear last night… man this movie was mediocre.

Buzz carries the movie and even then he does barely. His three sidekicks are awful conceptually, one expects Buzz to trust her because she’s Buzz’ coworker’s granddaughter, one’s a one-trick pony (can’t use gun because parole), and one… is Taika Waititi. I’m so done with him now.

Plot was okay. Kept me engaged because of the interesting setup. Plot twist was decent. But it was literally RPG levels of lazy quests.

Please don’t see this movie. Go watch Toy Story again.

@TheJGG Yeah saw it yesterday as well.

The biggest issue with the movie I had was how rushed it felt, and what it could have been. The trailer in my opinion showcases something completely different then what we got. The movie would have benefited from being more serious, but it was just to silly, even tho it could be when it wanted to.

I heard something something about same gender relationship from Buzz Lightyear movie.
What was that about?
Bromance?

@TheJGG @Snatcher
Lightyear is only the second Pixar movie I didn't like, after Cars 2. It was bad. I especially didn't like how dumb all the characters are. They stumble their way through the movie and somehow come out on top. At times, it felt to me like the movie was insulting my intelligence.

@Anti-Matter
There's a romantic relationship between two women in the movie.

@TheJGG @Snatcher Yeah I agree for the most part. Personally, I didn't think Buzz carried the movie. He still wasn't horrible, but he was just so whiny about dumb s--t. It was the cat robot that carried the movie for me. It was the only character I found constantly funny. Also, the movie wasn't actually that bad up until the Lesbian pilot died. That's when it got downhill. (Oh and @Anti-Matter, the gender relationship thing is a lesbian relationship, or a woman being in love with a woman)

EDIT: @Mioaionios This is probably my #3 least enjoyed Pixar movie. Worse than Brave and A Bug's Life (not by much), Better than Cars 2 and The Good Dinosaur.

Disney just let Pixar leave Toy Story dead.

@Mioaionios It really was. I wanted a competent team, that actually knew what there were doing, that or make the, a band of misfits, but we got none of that.

@HotGoomba I agree, the start of the movie actually wasn’t that bad.

Also wile I didn’t like the film, I have to say, the graphics are really good, ngl I loved the camera shots and the environment, even if it was boring because it was the same location the whole film.

@Snatcher Yeah, the animation is undeniably amazing, but it's Pixar, they always have great animation.

@HotGoomba Great animation, poor storyline and writing.

@HotGoomba
Ah, I see.
I have watched it from YouTube.
I prefer gay relationship actually. 😆

I 100% agree.

@HotGoomba Hey I Totally said excellent cat! no, wait I said They totally had an excellent cat what’s happening!

Too late, already did thanks to Disney+. I did enjoy Lightyear towards the end more than the early part, the setup was kind of weird. It's not the best Pixar movie I've seen. Will admit, I'm actually glad I went to see a two year old animated movie that I love as my summer theater movie, rather than this one or Minions (FWIW, I'll watch it when it comes to Peacock just to see it myself if I like it or not). It's not a movie I'd go rushing to the theater for or to buy on DVD or something.

Though, the cat was the best character, lol.

Honestly, I felt Luca and Turning Red were better. Lightyear isn't the worst IMO, but I can think of better movies I could watch.

Will admit, Andy's world had really good CGI considering that was the movie he watched in 1995, lol.

Tagging @Snatcher too.

Can someone explain this to me, why on earth do "IMAX enhanced" movies change aspect ratio? First it was Guardians of the Galaxy, then it was Lightyear. Just never experienced it with other movies before, or been to an IMAX theater. All the theaters I've been to are regular ones.

That's because IMAX movies have a different aspect ratio of 1.90:1 instead of the usual 2.39:1. True IMAX is even taller with 1.43:1 but those theaters are very rare.

@Sunsy Turning red got way to much flack, just because the animation wasn’t light year quality, it took a more anime ish style and it got hate for that, despite actually being a pretty good film.

And I also have to agree. The cat was the best part, I mean, come on, can you even argue that?