Are you British? I was on a forum after it was released and there was a Brit who was dumbfounded that Americans for the most part didn't even know who Robbie Williams was, because not only his music but his gossip fuel life was ever-present in their minds over there.
I thought about seeing it a bit, but it didn't last long in theatres in Canada. And I only know him for the music video where he tears his flesh off.
@MontyCircus I always thought it was a bit of an odd movie to make. I've heard it's really good, but I don't think many people actually went to see it. Robbie Williams hasn't been relevant for years - even in the UK and Europe. He was everywhere in the late 90s/early 2000s but seemed to disappear without a trace in terms of putting out any new music - or at least anything I've heard. Just seems like an odd choice for a biopic as he just doesn't have the mass appeal - especially in the US - of someone like Elton John or Freddie Mercury etc that have had fairly recent biopic movies. It might've been more successful as a lower-budget TV mini-series.
Tomorrow I'm planning on watching The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Very excited for that one, and good timing too - apparently it's going to be in US theaters until this Wednesday, so if you're planning on seeing it, do it now or regret it later.
"Now I have an obligation to tag along and clear the area if Luigi so much as glances at a stiletto."
Rio - I’ve seen this one before but I saw it lately again. This one is about a domesticated blue macaw who turns out to be the last male of his species. He and his owner are convinced by an ornithologist to travel to Rio de Janeiro to let him meet the last female blue macaw in the hopes that they will mate and save their species, but because of the rarity of their species, the macaws are targeted by a group of bird poachers and their intimidating cockatoo.
Because it’s set in Rio, the film’s visuals and environments are all about being bright, showy, and colorful, and the animation and colors are really pretty, and I am a HUGE fan of colors, so the movie did really well in that department. The Carnaval was super bright and colorful, and maybe the biggest standout with the animation in this one.
This movie is also a musical, though, I thought some of the songs were sorta underwhelming. The intro song, “Real in Rio,” paired with the opening animation of all the colorful wild birds singing together in harmony and dancing lively, I think was a good song and a great introduction to Rio de Janeiro and showcasing its colorfulness, but the songs after that weren’t impressive. Not saying they are abysmal, they are fine but also not stunning either. They are fine vocally and instrumentally, but I found they mostly suffer from having either repetitive lyrics (e.g. “Hot Wings” and “Let Me Take You To Rio”) or kind of cringy and unfunny lyrics (e.g. “Pretty Bird). It was kind of disappointing since the voice cast is good at singing (plus will.i.am was one of the voice actors in this and he makes good music) but the lyrics just kind of don’t do the songs justice or make the songs impressive or memorable.
And some of the characters feel like kind of cliche tropes. The bird poachers I thought felt the most cliched (being that trio trope where there’s this evil guy being the serious and superior one and the other two being his stupid and idiotic minions). I did kind of find some of the dynamic between Blu and Jewel to kind of be a tad bit cliched (since I’ve already seen similar romantic dynamics with couples in other movies). Not an entirely bad movie, but it’s kind of brought down with some cliches that are way too common in animated movies.
Ponyo - Seen this one a million times before and it never gets boring! This one is a classic for me, and for a while it was the one and maybe only Studio Ghibli movie I saw.
This is about a magical goldfish who leaves the sea, and after washing ashore, is rescued by a young boy that takes care of her and loves her. After forming a strong friendship with him, she desires to become a human like him, but is unaware of the consequences it’ll have.
Out of the three Ghibli movies I saw lately, I’d say Ponyo has the most beautiful and most stunning animation out of all of them. The sea is the main subject of the movie, and so the detailed and wondrous animation is beautiful for the entire runtime. The first 6 dialogue-less minutes of the film do an amazing job at both showcasing the pretty-looking, fantastical ocean and immediately grabbing your interest, not to mention the amazing orchestral music that evokes so much wonder during the opening. It’s so iconic for me, especially since I saw this movie an endless amount of times in the past because of how beautiful it is.
The story is very interesting, especially with the fantastical elements and how Ponyo turning into a human causes an imbalance in nature and engulfs almost all of the Earth in water. Ponyo and Sōsuke’s interactions and friendship is adorable and very fun to watch, and it’s just a super visually stunning film with fun characters and an interesting plot with the sea, and maybe one of my favorite fantasy movies.
My Neighbor Totoro - I was watching this before but I only finished around half of it, but finished it a few weeks ago. I actually knew almost nothing about this film’s plot despite how iconic and well-known it is, so I sort of went in blind. This is about two young sisters who move into a new house with their dad while awaiting for their mom to recover in the hospital. Their new house is nearby a forest, which is home to several spirits that the girls interact with and become friends with.
This, like Ponyo, was a very fun and adorable movie to watch. I especially enjoyed how there were animal spirits in the movie, since I am a very big fan of animals. The fantasy elements in the 1950s setting is very interesting, because I don’t think I really see movies that combine both fantasy and a 20th century setting. The designs of the spirits are amazing too! Totoro and the other spirits look very friendly and cuddly while being very fantastical, mysterious, and whimsical.
The film’s plot is very lighthearted fun, and I do enjoy movies that are both simple and lighthearted. I was a bit surprised at how kinda dark the film got midway through when Satsuki, Mei, and their dad get a message about the girls’ mom having a worsening illness, Satsuki believing there could be a chance their mom is dead, and Mei running away by herself to give their mom corn so she can feel better, but everyone searches for Mei and believe that she got lost and died. I am glad I saw the movie, and it seemed right up my alley with the spirit creatures and it’s whimsy feelings. I can very much see now how iconic this was, and I’m shocked I didn’t see it sooner!
“Woah-shi! It’s a double Yoshi explo-shi!” - Yoshi’s Woolly World ad, 2015
If you’re curious, the character in my PFP is Toothy from Happy Tree Friends.
Tomorrow I'm planning on watching The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie.
Just came back from this and yeah - it absolutely lived up to the hype. It's not only great to see Looney Tunes in their element without any stupid live-action nonsense tacked on, it's just great to see a quality, 2D animated film on a big screen again. Compellingly drawn, stupidly funny, and absolutely worth seeing.
Please go watch this. You'll be better off for it.
Snow White live action movie is today 19 March 2025 in my country Indonesia, but I can't watch at evening time (around 6 pm) as during Ramadan month, the cinema will be closed briefly from 6 pm to 8 pm for the cinema staffs having fast break and praying time.
The only day I can watch Snow White at afternoon are Saturday and Sunday, but the ticket price will be more expensive during weekend and holiday.
@WoomyNNYes
Also, I was surprised here in Indonesia Snow White 2025 was rated 13+ , not SU (Semua Umur / All Ages) while the movie was rated PG globally like other Disney live action movies Little Mermaid 2023 or Beauty & the Beast 2017, etc.
Wicked part 2 (retitled as Wicked For Good) will be in November 2025.
Hoping the teaser of part 2 around May or June 2025.
We will see Nessarose (Wicked Witch of East) get squished by Dorothy's house, funny catfight of Glinda and Elphaba, the melting scene of Elphaba, the scandalous of Wizard of Oz, etc.
@Anti-Matter I don’t plan on seeing Snow White, but I am curious to hear what your thoughts on it are once you see it. I haven’t seen a Disney remake in a while, and I know they had that remake in the works for a good while.
“Woah-shi! It’s a double Yoshi explo-shi!” - Yoshi’s Woolly World ad, 2015
If you’re curious, the character in my PFP is Toothy from Happy Tree Friends.
@Pastellioli
I think I can watch Snow White 2025 on this weekend because the only time I can watch during Monday to Friday are afternoon, 6 pm and after 8 pm during Ramadan.
I don't want to watch movie at cinema after 8 pm (nightime) as I have to get enough sleep for working time on next day and not to mention the cinema inside the mall is the last place to closed while the mall itself already closed at 10 pm.
So I take the afternoon schedule during weekend as I will choose the 12 pm choice.
Well, I will be fair when giving my opinion about Snow White 2025 regardless of the chaos behind the scenes.
Watched Gladiator II and it was a little boring. The first movie was amazing, but this one is not. It dragged way too long and unlike the first one I only liked the fighting scenes like the naval battle. 5/10 for me.
On the topic of Snow White ... this will be a failure of such proportions that it will be studied for generations
Tell me what did not fail until now?
The trailers failed. The marketing failed, thanks to the "star" of the movie.
As long as Disney have money to burn, we will see such movies targeted to the "modern audience".
Is it true the the Wicked movie is only half the Wicked story? I thought I saw that mentioned somewhere.
Yeah, Part 2 will be out in November.
But don't feel slighted by that. The entire Broadway show is 2½ hours.
But the Wicked first movie is 2 hours 40 minutes.
So the first "half" of the story in movie form is actually longer than the entire Broadway show.
It was also one of my 3 favourite films from last year (and I'm not a musical junkie).
I was pleasantly surprised by Wicked too. Amazing practical sets when more and more movies are just CGI green screens, Cynthia & Ariana have wicked chemistry and I connected with the themes of the movie a lot more than what I was expecting.
@N00BiSH I really wanted to see The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, but apparently it's not getting a release outside the US - or at least not here in the UK/Europe
@Anti-Matter I see! I hope when you see the movie, you enjoy it. I can’t wait to hear your opinion on it. Whenever I see movies in theaters, I always see them in the morning or in the afternoon.
Ice Age: The Meltdown (Disney+) - I’ve seen the original Ice Age before, but for years I never saw the sequel or the dozens of films after it. After seeing Rio (which was done by the same studio behind Ice Age) I wanted to watch some of the Ice Age sequels for the first time. Saw this last night, and it was a solid sequel, but I had some small issues with it.
The sequel follows the main characters evacuating their home to escape and survive an upcoming flood caused by global warming, which will melt most of the ice and an ice wall holding a large reservoir of water, while also avoiding a pair of carnivorous sea creatures that have defrosted.
This one kind of had more higher stakes with the flood that could possibly wipe out the animals, in comparison to the first one. I did kind of like this one.
The segments with Scrat were maybe my favorite, since they are very slapstick-y and, thanks to the lack of dialogue in his parts, they remind me a bit of older cartoons that focused on characters performing slapstick acts and their clumsiness, which made it entertaining for me. I just enjoy how silly and fun they make Scrat and his antics, and here he had way more appearances during the movie compared to the previous.
Animation is pretty good for the time it was made and released, and I especially found it very good when it came to depicting the abundance of water and ice in it, especially the part where almost all the animals ride in a gigantic wood boat during the flood, which kind of reminded me of Noah’s Ark. That part looked the most impressive with the animation. The main trio is still likable, and I enjoyed their dynamic together, and the film also attempts to add some emotional depth and moments with Manny and how he could be the last mammoth left. I do appreciate how the writers tried to add more depth to their characters, him in particular given his past.
But, I also have some criticisms. The plot kind of feels like it has a bit of unnecessary filler in it. Namely, there’s an extremely short subplot with Sid being taken by a tribe of sloths who think he’s a fire god and worship him, and a part where a ton of vultures sing “Food Glorious Food” as the main characters walk. It felt like random stuff put in, especially since those two parts in particular have no bearing or effect on the plot.
I also wasn’t a huge fan of some of the new characters they introduced, mainly the possum brothers. I found those two kind of came off as a bit annoying. They are supposed to be mischievous and playful pranksters, but at times in the film they were sometimes annoying, but I should add they weren’t completely awful characters, but I still wouldn’t say they’re good. Their mammoth step-sister Ellie was better in my opinion, but I found myself liking the original trio way more than the new characters. Still talking about characters, I also found it kind of strange how early in the film they seem to set up the vultures as antagonists (since one vulture announced that there will be a flood and ominously says to the animals that they’ll be food once the flood kills them), but they aren’t really antagonists. They only appear for, if I remember, maybe around 2-3 scenes, including that “Food Glorious Food” scene, but the vultures do nothing after singing that or appear afterward. There was this duo of sea animals who are actual antagonists and terrorize the sea and the main gang, but they also didn’t feel like they had much of a presence in the movie alongside the vultures.
I didn’t find this one really funny. I laughed at least once or twice but it isn’t really funny to me. The romantic pairing with Manny and Ellie leads to a bit of kinda awkward romance jokes with some slight innuendo in them, but they weren’t funny to me at all and seemed like something I heard of before in other animated family-friendly movies with romantic couples when they try to be funny by making them awkward. I think a lot of the comedic entertainment comes more from Scrat’s dialogueless antics than spoken jokes.
Now that I have watched that, I’m gonna watch the remaining three sequels later. I know a ton of people think the first two Ice Age Movies were the only good ones and that the following 3 are worse, but I’m still going to watch them and form my own opinions.
DC League of Super-Pets (Max/HBO Max) - I saw this for the first time a few days ago. I heard of this one a bit upon release, but never saw it.
This centers on Superman’s super pet dog Krypto, who has a strong bond with Superman, but is jealous whenever he’s with others and is bad at working with other animals. When a guinea pig tested on by Lex Luthor kidnaps Superman and the rest of the Justice League, Krypto works with a group of superpowered shelter animals to save the day.
Like almost all of the animated movies I’ve seen lately, this one has nice animation. I like how kind of softer the animation looks in parts with bright lighting, and the environments and characters looked nice with the animation style. There was this one part where Krypto imagines Lois replacing him in Superman’s life, and the colors and shading on the animation on that part looked nice and fit in with Krypto’s exaggerated, dramatic, and unrealistic vision. I also was a bit fond of the premise centering on the animals and how they’d handle it, also because I like animals a lot and enjoy them in any movie.
But, this felt a bit cliched. The humor wasn’t all that funny and had a lot of cliched moments that I felt have been done a bit too much in comedy movies. There is also some comedy they try doing with the main antagonist and Luthor and how the main antagonist loves Luthor a lot, but it came off as really not funny, and there was one part that was being played for comedic effect but it still came off as weird when I saw it.
A lot of the animal characters had kind of cliched personality traits that just kind of made them uninteresting in my opinion (especially with the “cute but deadly” trope for a minor kitten antagonist) and the main antagonist is so overpowered and slightly annoying. I know shes supposed to be super smart because of the testing done on her but her abilities and powers don’t seem balanced, and it appears she almost always overpowers the protagonists, who I felt rarely prevailed against the antagonist and always lost when confronting her. It just has a lot of cliches you probably see a lot in movies centered on pet animals, so I didn’t enjoy this one too much. Not fully bad but it’s too trope-y and cliched.
Yosh...!
I watched Snow White 2025 this afternoon and.... It was disappointing 😟
The whole storyline didn't feel right with the changes and addition that didn't feel fit with the storyline.
It was like you added with some new things but you also changed the important scene with something else that didn't flow naturally.
It felt awkward to watch the modified version of this Snow White. Weird! Weird! (quote from Rachel Zegler)
I didn't even laughed or shocked (jaw dropped) or fascinated or cried while watching Snow White 2025, indicated I wasn't impressed that much.
My score for this Snow White 2025 is 5 from 10.
It was bad movie but I still kind enough to give 5 instead of 3 from 10.
Here are the things that I felt made the movie didn't look impressive to me.
Spoiler Alert The idea of changing the prince that will marry Snow White become the leader of rebel group since from beginning was not quite right as they are just only 8 peoples with Jonathan as the leader with 7 people rebel members with one real dwarf people as the crossbow user, suddenly I realized they were supposed to be the 7 magical creatures with 1 dwarf and 6 non dwarves but their roles changed into rebel group. The rebel groups have tension with 7 dwarves as the Grumphy suspected all humans are evil like the rebel group, but suddenly after Jonathan got shot by arrow from Evil Queen soldier, they were getting along after Jonathan got healed by Doc (also it was not supposed to Doc have doctor rules just because his name was Doc) and they celebrated with yodel dance and singing like cartoon version. It was awkward to watch scenes like that as the addition and the changes didn't feel right.
Another critic from me was from Evil Queen which her scenes when she was punishing the huntsman for lying by giving her an apple inside the box instead of Snow White heart, her evil scene didn't need sing and dance in my opinion.
Also, during the transformation scene, her transformation time until making poisonous apple and leaving from castle was too rush.
The transformation scene from changing her identity into old hag was too rush, she just only mixed two or three different liquids from the already prepared table with 7 or 8 different liquid bottles then she drank it without dramatic ritual like thunder or wind or magic spell mantra. She kept singing while her slowly transformation to become old hag then she came to the already prepared kettle with boiling blue liquid that supposed to be empty as she must prepare the venomous ingredients before making poisonous apple.
And the intention of Evil Queen as old hag to convince Snow White to eat the red apple by telling to Snow White if Jonathan was in danger and showed Snow White her necklace that given to Jonathan before, then with some manipulative words to convince Snow White to eat poisonous apple as her meal before going to Southern kingdom, to me it wasn't a nice choice to convince Snow White to eat that apple. Even after Snow White felt dizzy after eating the apple, the Evil Queen as old hag was overspoken by telling she killed Snow White father and return to castle after killing Snow White, just like original story of Snow White.
Snow White in this live action movie didn't put inside glass coffin, but she was put on the rock instead with small flower gazebo and the 7 dwarves keep watching over her and crying.
Jonathan was in the prison inside Evil Queen with the huntsman and both of them successfully escaped from the prison. Jonathan was looking for Snow White and he found Snow While lied on the rock. He kissed Snow White and she woke up. They kissed again like cartoon version but it wasn't about romantic stuffs. Snow White decided to return to her kingdom like a big boss to restore her kingdom with red hood like little red riding Hood and the villagers started to join her in a mob to dethrone the Evil Queen. The battle between Evil Queen and Snow White was pretty awkward as I thought it will be a furious battle between them after Evil Queen offered Snow White to kill Evil Queen in front of villagers with jeweled dagger (idea from original story of Snow White which Evil Queen is about to kill Snow White with poisonous dagger when she had wedding ceremony with the prince in the castle)
The demise of Evil Queen in this live action version was predictable according to my theory after I saw a brief scene of broken mirror from one trailer before. Yes, she died by become ash after destroying her magic mirror for not accepting the fact and the magic mirror absorbed her inside another dimension and the mirror turned back into normal mirror without any damage like it was never broken. Not really satisfying demise scene of Evil Queen, I thought she will be forced to wear hot sandals and dance to dead in front of Snow White like original version or fallen again from the height and got lightning struck on her like cartoon version.
Also, I realized the CGI of cute animals in this movie, it just like a distraction for a cute looking moment but their cuteness couldn't make the whole story become better.
It had also the classic book style of the storytelling the font design that looked like cartoon version during the credit rolls.
Those Easter eggs from old cartoon movie didn't do justice as it felt like addition to pay the tribute from cartoon version was like the effort of Disney to conceal the movie with already bad quality with some distractions.
Also, this is the second time I watched movie with screen write by Greta Gerwig, the same people who ruined Barbie 2023 movie with stupid political issues of Barbie stuffs, I didn't feel surprised if Snow White 2025 movie also flopped, because of her ideas to ruin the whole story with wrong choices. Both of Barbie 2023 and Snow White 2025 was rated PG13+ here in my country Indonesia, both of them are bad movies because of Greta Gerwig.
If I gave 5 from 10 for Snow White 2025, I gave 0 from 10 for Barbie 2023 movie.
Next time, I will not watch movie that the storyline wrote by Greta Gerwig.
Her story scripts are suck.
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