Just been to see Marcel The Shell With Shoes On now that it's finally out in the UK. It's a lovely film, very creative and charming, and it's amazing how smoothly the stop-motion animation is blended with the amateur mockumentary style.
Thank you Nintendo for giving us Donkey Kong Jr Math on Nintendo Music
A City Hunter movie which sees Ryo hired to protect a secret service agent who herself is part of a detail protecting a visiting South American political candidate (she is secretly his daughter, and his political opponents are targeting her to get to him).
It's not as tightly paced as the shorter films (Bay City Wars, Million Dollar Conspiracy), but it's still a fun time if you're a fan of the series.
Fun Easter Egg: at one point late in the film, right before the big climax, a character opens a map which holds some "Star Trek: TNG" references. If you pause & look at it, you have Mount Picard, Riker River, Jean-Luc Point, & Worf Point (you can see the former two again, & more clearly, whenever someone else opens the map again a few minutes later).
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Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
My goal is to watch one movie in my theater every week for a whole year. So far I've seen:
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
M3GAN
Avatar: The Way of Water
Missing
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Knock at the Cabin
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
@JadeKitsune So I'm guessing Puss In Boots: The Last Wish is one of your most watched movies in theaters?
Mine is tied with My Little Pony: The Movie (the 2017 one), and Trolls World Tour (saw two special showings at local theaters this past summer), both tied with two. I'm hoping to make the upcoming Trolls 3 my most watched movie in a theater.
Nice to see @Eagly and I aren't the only ones who loved Puss In Boots too.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
@Sunsy Thing is, I'd lost interest in MLP halfway through the third season, but I did see the movie in theaters. Thankfully I was able to follow the story really well.
@JadeKitsune That's great you were able to follow it. Recently watched it again the other night. Forgotten how dark the movie got. I do love how they did traditional animation for the mane six as something special for the movie.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
Thing is, I had a plan to see one movie every week for a year back in 2020; unfortunately I’d only seen ten movies before the pandemic shut the theater down for a year.
Since DreamWorks movies are being mentioned, thinking about it, I really feel Spirit Untamed is rather underrated. First saw the movie on Peacock, and I loved it. The story of Lucky befriending Spirit, and the adventure Lucky, Spirit, and their friends go on to save Spirit's family from wranglers who wanted to auctioned them off, and the friendship moments. Even the art style, even though it's computer animated like DreamWorks movies usually are, it gives me a country painting vibe to it. Plus, I just find it cool that Spirit in this movie is the son of Spirit from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
Thinking about giving this one a re-watch one of these days, it's been on my mind for the past few days.
@JadeKitsune I know that feeling, I was looking forward to Trolls World Tour in theaters before lockdown made it an at home thing. Thankfully, two local theaters showed it as part of a summer event this past summer, so I did get to see it in a theater as I originally wanted to.
If that's a plan you wanted to do, I don't see why not get back into doing it. I don't think anyone could have done much given what was happening in 2020.
@JadeKitsune I did the same with Trolls World Tour due to digital rental being the only option at the time, and I own the movie on DVD/Blu-Ray. Still thankful two local theaters did show the movie as part of a family friendly event this past summer, I did get to see it in theaters, albeit two years later.
I have yet to see Scoob, funnily enough, one of the two theaters I went to also showed it as part of their summer event. Though I didn't go to that showing. Still cool they did two pandemic era movies so people got a chance to see them on the big screen as it was originally intended.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
Still hope for the day that Pixar will put Soul, Luca and Turning Red in theaters. Especially Turning Red.
See, until the pandemic began, I used to brag that I've seen every Pixar movie in theaters since "Toy Story" in 1995. Heck, I can name all the years and which movie(s) came out in those years by heart.
Luckily I saw "Onward" as my last movie in 2020 before our theater shut down.
Also tonight, I did a double feature on Netflix; I saw "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" and "The Bad Guys".
I’ve just rewatched The Godfather for the first time in years since it’s up on All4 at the moment. It’s bloody good innit, like not just good but really bloody good.
It’s just immaculate and so well crafted with nothing out of place the score, the acting, writing, it’s themes, it’s blending of pulp and realism, the methodical slow pace to build it’s tragedy and successes without numbing you to them.
The movie has been discussed to death but I’ve never seen anyone talk about the family itself. It at times feels like a home movie where something happens the family gets together, the way they talk to each other and they make sure the cooking is done to the recipe etc.
The way it blends artsy drama and pulp genre is so good like the baptism happening at the same time as the hits take place.
It does exactly what I love about movies where something as simple as a door closing is a giant OMMFG moment, no need for CGI armies, cheap pops from a cameo, talking animals or exposition dumps just a door closing!
That restaurant scene with police captain, bloody hell that was tense and hypnotising.
Considering the film is older than my parents it’s amazing how much you still see it’s influence. I’m not talking cheesy pop-culture references or it’s added to the lexicon but it’s actual fingerprints in the craft of of movies and shows today. It’s to the point it wouldn’t look out of place being released now partly because it’s a period piece but also because it’s the type of landmark filming making people still use today to figure out to make movies and shows.
Ninja Turtles looks pretty bad. The turtles designs look to skinny, the voice acting was terrible, and most of the jokes made the turtles seem like absolute wimps. I will be surprised if this movie is met with positive reception.
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