Ah man, I saw Hypnotic and it was incredibly meh. I should have gone to see Spider Man 10 instead. Despite the stick Robert Rodriguez gets I loved his early films like Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn so him making a mind fudge thriller (which is one of my favourite genres along with “Wtf did I just see?”, “People don’t realise it’s actually a wee-wee taking satire” and “That movie was so metal!”) sounded great. However it’s just a poor man’s Nolan film with hints of Scanners, Shutter Island and Cure too but I don’t particularly rate Nolan to begin with. I saw the trailer and I clocked the main plot twists but I said to myself that’s too obvious so there gonna be something else to it but nope. I take it the cast were not impressed too as Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, Jackie Earle Haley, William Fichtenet etc are all phoning it in. It’s not all bad, there’s a few cool moments but not enough sadly. Highlight of the film was it was 90 mins long, I’m not joking by the way as it’s getting silly every mediocre film has become 3 hours long now. Plus think of them using the CGI budget to make those 90 mins better instead of stretching it out for an extra hour plus of bland nonsense.
finished watching Jackie Chan's City Hunter on Tubi earlier today. Its not bad but its dumb plus the main female characters there were too many of them to keep track of who had a thing for Jackie Chan's Ryu
watching Come Play on Freevee right now tonight. Pretty good movie. has a couple of actual good scary jump scares. Better than that Babadook from a couple of years ago which was kind of boring
The funny thing is that in "Ratatouille", when Anton Ego hears about Gusteau's becoming popular again, he nearly does a spit take before looking at the bottle of wine... which was a Cheval Blanc 1947, and thus too expensive to waste... and he swallows the rest that he had in his mouth.
@EaglyPurahfan I thought you would like this info, I would say fact but I would need to watch it in Japanese to be for sure but I have heard people say it’s true.
In spiderverse the first one you might notice peni Parkers mouth doesn’t entirely sync with her voice, that is because she was dubbed to English, (which of course to match her anime style) and her original voice is Japanese, and apparently if you look at the dub, it is synced, and she is voiced by the famous Voice actor Rie Takahashi. What’s funny is that this is usually the opposite lol.
I never knew that, I always that her mouth looked off sync in that movie, but I thought it was the frame rate they were going for, and trying to replicate the anime look.
But you probably know this as well, but just so I can give you a fact, peni is also the only spider person that did not grab on the ceiling, instead being squished between them, that scene also took two months to animate apparently! Also, she also made the goober, so when Ike’s puts it in, the words are in Japanese.
Wandering swordsman Jubei winds up getting roped into fighting for the Tokugawa shogunate against the forces of the Hideyoshi clan, particularly a band of 8 evil super ninja with supernatural powers. Joining him are Kagero (a kunoichi, and the last surviving member of a ninja clan slaughtered by the 8), and and old Tokugawa aligned ninja who ensures Jubei's assistance by promising him an antidote to a poison he inflicted our hero with. Along the way he'll have to come to grips with the fact that the leader of the 8 might just be an old foe he thought dead years ago.
This is 90's anime sword & sandal action that goes hard with gore & nudity to oftentimes taboo levels (at one point a man rips off the arms of an opponent and drinks the blood pouring out, and then shortly after is involved in a very voyeuristic rape scene featuring Kagero). It's not much more than that, but it's very good at what it does, and is worth a look depending on your sensitivity/offense tolerances.
Story is pretty simple "boss rush" style progression, but it's enough to keep things going and the 8 reminded me of a ninja-fied version of the rogues gallery from MGS3 for some reason (it was probably the bee guy).
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I'm impressed that Castle in the Sky managed to make it to No. 3 at the Chinese box office, only behind Across the Spider-Verse and Fast X, and not by much either.
It even beat out The Little Mermaid 2023 remake. That's impressive considering it's a 1986 movie, that is already so well-known in China that most people have already seen it either on DVD, Blu-ray, or piracy.
But China really loves Studio Ghibli and their films. I think these Mainland China theatrical releases are also helping Ghibli stay afloat and fund Hayao Miyazaki's next film.
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Just saw "The Boogeyman". What a boring film. It's like they just took the title, and Stephen King's name and then made a generic spooky film. What a waste.
A week ago that I saw "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", which was fantastic, and better than the first. Fun, funny, thrilling, visually dazzling. It's everything you want in a superhero movie. I'd say it was as entertaining as "No Way Home".
@Professor_PlumberSolo is the worst thing ever, is what a superfan would say but I'd argue that TRoS and TLJ are worse with FTA being good but mainly only because it's already copying something that is already good.
Hot take: S1 of Mando is the best thing that has happened to Star Wars since TPM.
@Professor_Plumber well if anything KK might get fired after Indy 5 (it sounds like what we all feared)
Iger wants Indy spin-offs and to that I say, STOP, the og trilogy is fine as is we don't need any more spin-offs, Young Indy was really good for what it was (we even got a Bond V Jones fight and it was awesome).
TFA also holds a special place in my heart (my first SW movie in theaters, c'mon). It seems like Mando is becoming like the animated shows, a good season, and then tons of mediocre ones with good moments.
TPM was lighting in a bottle (IMO), it just didn't know how to use that lightning on the other hand the sequels had that lightning but just didn't use it and refused to cause gotta do a trilogy can't just do one, or two films and have a little adventure with our favorite characters and then set-up the new ones while still giving us the old ones, a passing of the torch if you will. I also think that Finn should have been the main character and Rey should have been the daughter of Han and Leia and Ben the son of Luke. Instead of the First Order being like the Empire they should have been a bit more secret and underground but still with a sense of scale, Snoke should also have been the big bad leader but instead of a dude who sits in a chair all evil-like he should be up and walking around (and stuff), remove that CGI and let Andy Serkis show us how cool he is without it (Andor proved he is great... But his character is probably dead now). Give Poe more to do than just the guy who tags along and can fly an X-Wing, and don't separate Leia and Han! That was weak and we all wanted to see them together as the fantastic duo we loved in Empire. Luke leaving everyone could work but only if he left to go look for something and not leave everyone to die, maybe he is looking for some ancient temple that explains some of the Jedi origins and the line between good and evil (or something). Ben should be an up-and-coming Jedi Knight but is struggling with turning to the dark side or something (but ultimately doesn't) and has an Orange lightsaber because screw the lore color system (let lightsabers be dumb gosh darn it!). Chewy, C-3PO, R2-D2, and BB-8 should stay as is and keep Rose Tico. DJ (Benicio Del Toro's character in TLJ) could have been a cool thief, spy, master gambler type character who leans to the First Order but ends up siding with the Resistance (kinda like Lando in Empire but with a less trustful-ness). The ending of the film to pass the Torch ends with Luke, Leia, and Han looking off to the sunset cause looking cool and making you cry matters and we never got that moment with all three of them together and we never will (let that sink in).
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