Guardians of the Galaxy 3 at the local theater. To start, I'm not a Marvel fan, superheroes aren't my thing. I tend to like cartoons more than comic book heroes, but that's me personally. With that said, I do like space and sci-fi movies and the Guardians of the Galaxy series fits in with that. Third movie, I loved it, laughed and cried, it was even dark at times. I'd say the darkest of the three movies IMO. I did enjoy it, good movie IMO.
I did see Guardians of the Galaxy 3 in 3D, so this was my first 3D experience. With that said, I really can't do 3D well with my eyes, I even struggle using 3D on 3DS and sometimes I notice it if it's a 2D game (like 3D Sonic 1), or I just don't (most other games). So the glasses only made the picture clearer for me. Didn't affect my enjoyment of the movie, but still worth noting.
The other day I watched Ferdinand on Disney+. I'm really surprised I never watched this animated movie, because I loved it. It was a bit longer than most animated movies, but I really enjoyed the story and the characters, and the kind of bull Ferdinand was. Really good movie I wish I seen sooner.
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@JadeKitsune well it depends on who you’re talking to. Critics say it’s mid whilst small children and middle aged fanboys love it.
@Rambler it’s always fun finding a new director with an interesting filmography to explore.
Sion Sono is a really interesting subversive director, he knocks them out at a rate like Miike does too. Love Exposure is his “best” film (finding 4 hours for a film is hard so I’ve not seen it yet) and Suicide Club is probably his best known but he’s got loads of really good films. Top picks imo are Tokyo Tribe which is like a trashy Japanese West Side Story, Why Don’t You Play In Hell is like a Takeshit Miike film, Tag is a fun movie which jumps from gory horror to arthouse whimsy (literally in the space of seconds a crocodile is eating a women to a bunch of girls having a pillow fight), Love & Peace is like a weird ET-Godzilla remix, Strange Circus is as great as it is very bleak depressing weird film about sensitive matters and Antiporno is clever as it’s a film about porn whilst trying to not be erotic about it. I’ve probably left some good ones out but those were the ones that spring to my mind first and have seen.
This is simply just a fun sword & sandal action movie. Lots of exciting & bloody battle scenes, a stylish aesthetic, and even a bit of T&A, it's pretty much everything you'd look for in the genre (if you can get over the fact that it's obviously not trying to be particularly historically accurate).
I wasn't very fond of some of the more fantastically grotesque character designs (the hunchback & those robed sages for example, oh, and there was some sort of executioner with blades for arms, lol), but I understand that the context in film is it's a story being recounted by a survivor to gin up a group of new soldiers, so things are going to be embellished for effect.
Expelled From Paradise (Blu-Ray)
Set in a distant future where most of humanity "lives" a digitized existence inside a computer/satellite called DEVA that orbits the Earth, a security agent (Angela Balzac) is sent to Earth (via a clone body grown with their genetic code) in order to hunt down a hacker from the surface who has been infiltrating into DEVA's systems.
Pretty cool sci-fi film overall. Definitely enjoyed Angela's design & the few mech battles it featured were intense though I'd have liked to see more. Story was pretty standard "what does it really mean to be alive" you see in a lot of sci-fi (especially the juxtaposition between Angela, a human who has lived most of her life as a digital avatar, and a sentient AI who is introduced at some point in the story), and while it's not really groundbreaking in it's approach, it offers some food for thought.
Biggest missed opportunity is the lore as to what happened to Earth/humanity (it has a post apocalyptic vibe), or rather the lack of it. We know some catastrophe struck the planet (and now there are mutated giant worm/centipede things), but what exactly that is was never explained as far as I remember.
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@Owl1 Another example: I want to see the movie Air, which is based on the first Michael Air Jordan's, and apparently that's also rated R
It received a theatrical run in the Philippines, which a lot of Amazon Studios films tend to get.
It received a PG rating here, which is strange since many films that get a U or PG in the UK get a PG here, but our PG is much more strict in implementation and more in line with a UK 12A or a Canadian 14A with cinemas only allowing kids under 13 if they have a parent.
Meanwhile, I saw a local Filipino romcom get a G rating despite having an F-bomb. And some US PG-13 films like The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker and Mulan 2020 got G ratings here.
The Batman received an R-13, which doesn't allow anyone below 13. Meanwhile, the Venom films and Morbius both got PG ratings. I also know that The Batman received a PG in the Canadian Blu-ray release, so the 14A may just be for the theatrical release. Some films get re-rated for home video. I know Everything Everywhere All at Once was rated PG in Canada for the theatrical run but re-rated 14A for the Blu-ray release. EEAAO received an R-13 in the Philippines.
Love Simon was rated R-13 for being "gay propaganda" despite being very clean and wholesome. Meanwhile, a local drag queen insult comedian makes blockbusters here that often get rated PG or even G, even with controversial crude humour. But lately, LGBTQ+ representation has been getting allowed with lower ratings, despite the general public here still being frighteningly homophobic and alt-right. Strange World recently released here with a G rating, even when it got a PG in the UK and Canada and even with the gay lead.
The R-18 rating is especially strange, since the biggest cinema chain here doesn't show them, which means films that get an R-18 have to get an alternate censored version for said cinema chain (while the uncut version gets a limited release), or be pretty much restricted to a limited release.
Fifty Shades of Grey was really weird, since it did get an R-18, but it was the same censored version cut by Toho that screened in Japan with an R15+ and was the version released in Chinese streaming. What's even weirder is that the Unseen Edition (Unrated in the US) did get a DVD/iTunes release here, and it was completely uncut and R-18.
Yes, the censored version of the first film was made by Toho, which distributed the trilogy in Japan and coproduced the sequels.
Speaking of Amazon Studios, it's weird how most of their films get theatrical runs here, but not the ones actually made in the Philippines like Ten Little Mistresses, Walang KaParis (Nothing Like Paris), and Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan (Mama Susan's Friends).
And Amazon Studios' biggest-performing film ever, which was Evangelion:3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time, never had a Philippine theatrical release, despite getting a theatrical release in some countries, even outside Japan.
I'm still waiting for Evangelion:3.0+1.01 to get a theatrical release here.
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I have a feeling jump and Rambler might yell at me again for not wanting to see an R-rated movie.
That is not what happens, you start virtue signalling about watching only non rated r things so one of the adult points out what you are watching is merely sanitised but as morally stupid as anything with penises, boobies, gore and swear words in it.
Air is fine, but it feels like a bait and switch film. They spend the entire time presenting the movie as an inspiring story of the underdog trying to sign Jordan only for the last few minutes shoe horning in (rather clumsily) it's about letting talent share the riches of the use of their name in products. It would have been nice if they spent more time on that theme but I'm guessing the average American would start getting angry over such things.
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