Topic: Movie thread.

Now that we can align on LOL

@Bunkerneath A mate of mine told me about it and I thought he was exaggerating but nope it completely deliveries on it's mental premise and I ended up binging it in a day. The only downside is there is only two seasons.

See How They Run looks like it could be a cult classic like Clue, if people give it a chance.

@Kermit1
It looks alright, but I'm more interested in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Early reviews say it's even better than the first Knives Out and I already loved that one.

Knives Out was amazing. A perfectly-executed spin on the whodunnit formula. Rian Johnson when given full control, can do some decent stuff.

Not that he's immune to disaster though.

@Mioaionios I still need to watch Knives Out. Maybe if it's on Netflix before the sequel I will.

During the summer, I saw Trolls World Tour twice as two local theaters were showing it as part of a summer. At the first showing I went to, my friend and I liked the old fashion feel of it. That particular theater we went to, I found out was built in 1926, and is still around to this day, only closing to replace carpeting and seating.

Curious, what's the oldest theater and cinema you've ever went to? Right now, this is possibly the oldest one I've been to. I'm surprised it's been around for almost 100 years, and I hope it sticks around.

Honestly, I loved the movie, even as someone who loves the original. Some of the new changes to it, I thought were good, like giving Pinocchio a friend like Fabiana and her puppet Sabina, or Pinocchio picking up on certain things like he did in Pleasure Island, or even using a scrapped ending idea from the original Disney movie.

Honestly, I think most of the hate I've seen are on YouTube video thumbnails. It just feels like they're dead set on hating it before it comes out because it's a live action Disney adaptation. That's all. Haven't watch the videos, I tend to avoid movie reviews because I usually never agree with them.

Most movie content on YouTube I like are from those who have passion for movies, and point out easter eggs and other interesting things, like what Flicks In The City does. It makes it interesting and gives you reason to rewatch something, as oppose to someone saying "don't watch this because I didn't like it." For lack of a better way of describing it.

@Sunsy A theatre in Georgia, I think was built in the late 70s. It only had 3 screens (I think, could have been more) but it was small.

@Sunsy I’ve got two cinemas which are about a 15 minute walking distance of me, both are pretty old with one being built in 1910 and the other in 1936.

Also not a cinema anymore but I use to regularly go to Scala which is a music/club venue. It was built in 1920 originally as a cinema however in the 80s they decided to show A Clockwork Orange which was banned in the UK (Stanley Kubrick banned it himself as he got fed up with the bad press over the movie and it only got released once he died so his kid could go against his wishes and profit from its release) so Scala was sued and bankrupted. It was then bought and reopened as a club where I have seen many bands and also spent many a drunken night with terrible djs til the early hours.

@Kermit1 Very nice. The one I went to had five screens, Trolls World Tour was shown on their main theater, with four smaller ones. The one with the least amount of screens had 2, but that one sadly closed down. I read that that one was from the late 70's.

@Sunsy I think it had 5 screens because 2 of the screens were used up for the (at the time) new terminator movie and the other ones were a cheap rom-com and 2 kids films, one of which was planes 2 the movie I went to see there.

@jump Awesome. Didn't know that about A Clockwork Orange being banned, at least the building is being used. There's another theater where I live that was closed down in 2005 (originally opened in the 70's), but the building never got demolished or anything. Funnily enough, rode past it on the way to that old fashioned theater, still surprised the building is just left there abandoned.

@Kermit1 The fact they were showing Planes 2, I'd say that's fairly recent being in the mid-2010's. At least it sounds like it's still around.

@Sunsy When me and my family went down to Georgia this past summer we drove by where it used to be and it's a parking lot now. I'm not shocked since the outside of it looked kinda abandoned.

On another note I'm going to try to see "See How They Run" this weekend, it's only got a 6.8 score last I checked but I still want to go see it.

There was a theatre (a few hours drive away) that for almost 34 years every Friday played Rocky Horror Picture Show. Then the pandemic happened.

@Kermit1 Aww, sorry to hear it closed. I know the abandoned feeling. On the way to see Trolls World Tour at the old theater, we passed an abandoned theater that still sits there. Funnily enough, I went to this particular theater at least once when I was little. It closed in 2005, sat there since.

I think the same theater that showed Trolls is showing the Rocky Horror Picture show this October. They're also going to show the 2018 Grinch movie this December.

Enjoy the movie when you see it!

@Rambler Very nice, it's cool to see some here finding theaters from 1910, I was surprised to find out the one I went to was from 1926 and is still standing there. They also own a drive-in theater, which is cool, since I didn't know one existed where I live. The indoor theater (where I saw Trolls at) and the drive-in are in two different parts of the town.

@Pikki Yeah, it's easy views. It just feels like people were set on hating it just for being a live action adaptation. I've seen more of a positive reception from comments on social media, with a few who didn't like it.

As for the scrapped ending, in the original 1940 movie, the scapped ending idea was Geppetto died, and Pinocchio lives, and Pinocchio cries over Geppetto. This scene is on Disney+ under the extras section of the original 1940 movie if you wish to see the alternate ending in storyboard form. They adopted this ending in the remake, that's why Pinocchio lived after the Monstro scene, unlike the original.

Pinocchio had its problems but calling it the worst live action movie? I can’t really agree with.

@Rambler it was before my time (I first went to Scala to see either Willy Mason or Be Your Own Pet in the 00/10s) but I imagine they were so use to showing these video nasty that they didn't think A Clockwork Orange would be a problem not realising Stan has lawyers.

I got very excited then and thought there was A Clockwork Orange show but Google says no. I did find out there was a German musical of it with music by Die Toten Hosen.

@Rambler I'm planning on seeing that too.

The only place that seems to be showing it is the Prince Charles Cinema which is annoying. I saw Jay & Silent Bob Reboot there with a Kevin Smith Q&A too, however the evening showing sold out so I had to go to the extra midnight show. Me and mate decided to go to the pub first however we were drunk way before midnight. Then we drank through the movie and Q&A and left the cinema around 4am. Somehow I still managed to go to work the next day.

Agreed, I loved the movie, but I think it's far from being called the worst. As I mentioned, I've only notice the negative reception from YouTube thumbnails. I don't watch movie YouTubers as I never agree with them anyway, and usually form my own opinion by watching movies. Mostly, I just enjoy watching movies that I like or interest me.

@Sunsy They called it worse then mulan, like ok, It definitely wasn’t that bad but alright. Even mulan wasn’t a total dumpster fire.

@Pikki Definitely, I usually don’t want to assume people go on a hate train but if you actually watch the movie, I mean come on, it actually did a lot of things most live action Disney films don’t.