finished watching Terms of Endearment on paramountplus tonight. now i need to watch the sequel. used to watch the sequel a couple of times when it was on HBO back then in the late 1990s.
So I've watched The Little Shop of Horrors. I didn't think that both cuts of the film would good. Two versions and two endings. Honestly, that's the best Silver lining ever. Definitely the Blu-ray was worth the money. Next one is going to be Son of Kong.
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I know this trailer came out a couple days ago, but man it is so good. I'm a huge fan of the MI series and this just looks awesome. Hopefully it delivers the finale the series deserves.
Going to try getting back on watching movies, and I just finished Osmosis Jones a few minutes ago. Heard of this one before, and I was convinced to watch it since I saw people making a fuss about it and how it is an underrated gem.
The film is centered on Frank, a zookeeper who’s been experiencing a myriad of health problems from his poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, and lack of good hygiene. Inside of his body is a city where several anthropomorphic white blood cells reside, and in this city is a police department where white blood cells working as cops fight off germs and threats to Frank. After he contracts a deadly virus during a work shift, a no-hoper white blood cell cop is teamed up with a cold pill to take the virus down.
This film is a combination of wonderful 2D animation and live-action, kind of like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, so I was a fan of that already. The animation is bright, colorful, and very clean, and I especially like how brightly saturated and colored the blood cell characters are. So many of these environments are detailed and so nice to look at, and related to that, I absolutely enjoy how they depicted the different organs inside of the body. It is so dang creative, and different parts are all depicted differently in several different ways. I especially liked the purple look of the Hypothalamus and how it’s depicted as being a lab, and I especially like the idea of white blood cells being cops looking out for germs that invade the body. The film is so creative when it comes to this aspect.
The characters were so great too. I enjoyed Osmosis and Drix’s dynamic, also since this is a buddy cop film. I found it especially cool that, from what Osmosis shows midway and near the end of the film, that he can change his form and appearance by dividing, and I found that cool that they applied cell division to his character that way, just another creative detail! I was kind of surprised with Thrax’s character, especially since he actually kills cells and even some germs. I was so SHOCKED at how brutal some of his killings were, especially with how he killed a white blood cell at the start of the film and a mafia boss armpit germ. He has these sharp claws that give him the ability to blow up and set things (and cells) on fire, and I don’t know, it’s just such a cool ability to give a villain, not to mention his voice (provided by Laurence Fishburne) adds power and intimidation to him as well.
Though I have some criticisms. Although I enjoy how the film is a combination of animation and live-action, I really wasn’t a fan of the live-action. It was sort of boring and unfun and I found myself liking the animated segments far more because of their wacky energy and creativity. Luckily the film focuses way more on the animated characters and scenes. The live-action scenes do try to add some emotional depth, mainly with Frank’s daughter looking out for her dad’s health after her mother died from not taking good care of her health, with it later culminating in Frank getting sent to the hospital after Thrax’s contamination gets worse. I did like how the movie tried doing that.
The film centers a lot on gross-out humor, and I kind of…didn’t like it. I know this film is set inside the body’s insides and it’s inside organs. I can handle most gross-out humor, heck, even one of my favorite games of all time has quite a bit of it, but the gross-out humor in here was sometimes disgusting and hard to watch, I even dropped my jaw during certain jokes. I think it’s because all of the gross-out humor is done in live-action rather than animated, so the realism to it makes it awful. The worst ones had to be when Frank was talking to his daughter’s teacher as she was teaching and the science fair scene; when you see it, you’ll know why I hated those ones in particular. The humor in the animated segments were way better and I didn’t even feel grossed out at all because there was a large lack of it, even some jokes there caught me off-guard.
It’s a pretty enjoyable film with the clean and saturated animation, creativity with the body’s insides organs, and characters, but it’s maybe the first time where I think the live-action in a live/action animated film brings it down a bit, alongside the humor in those scenes. If it was fully animated, I think I’d enjoy it a bit more. But, I’d still say Osmosis Jones was great. Give it a watch if you can handle gross-out humor.
I watched Lilo & Stitch cartoon version from YouTube, actually from YouTuber watching reaction video to jog my memory about Lilo & Stitch cartoon version movie before watching the live action version.
On the topic of the box office, am kind of surprised to now see a Disney remake failing this badly in the box-office. I am aware of the controversies around it but is it weird I still expected Snow White to gross a lot more because of how it’s nostalgia bait and Disney’s nostalgia bait remakes work almost all the time because of their audiences? Almost all of their remakes have done well commercially besides like 2-3 of them.
I’d also have to assume A Minecraft Movie taking all the attention away from Snow White is also why it’s bombing, but if I’m being honest I’m glad it is, especially since the bad performance convinced them to pause work on that Tangled remake and probably go “hey, this probably isn’t worth it”. Honestly, what’s the point of Disney remaking their critically-acclaimed animated films when they are perfect already and don’t need to be improved upon? I feel like you should only remake something if the original is not good in the first place. It just reeks of uncreativity but I feel like they’ll probably go back to working on Tangled if Lilo and Stitch is successful, which I am expecting it to be. For every commercially unsuccessful Disney remake, there will unfortunately be a million more after that are commercially successful that will convince them to keep making more.
@Pastellioli
I think Lilo & Stitch 2025 live action movie can save Disney a little bit after the abysmal of Snow White 2025 last time.
I saw some good potential from Lilo & Stitch 2025 live action movie.
Even I rewatched Snow White 2025 from YouTube, the recap and some shorts videos taken from cinema, it was really bad and pity to watch.
If I the director of Snow White movie, I will give better direction and idea to keep Snow White story interesting in live action version.
Btw, Tangled was already great, Disney better NOT ruin again like Snow White 2025.
Also, how to make Flynn fling safely and landed on the horse saddle precisely after being catapulted by one of barbarian crew in live action version ? 😂
And you cannot hire real horse without cartoonish behaviour in live action version.
You must use CGI horse (again CGI, not real horse) and it will be like Snow White 2025 situation.
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Snow White 2025 was a failure because (from my opinions).
1. It wasn't about romantic story between Snow White and the Prince, but it was about Snow White being a boss girl who showed false way of leadership (at the end of story when she returned to castle).
2. The idea of using 7 magical creatures instead of 7 dwarves at beginning before get backfire and forced Disney to change the 7 magical creatures become 7 rebel members and made the 7 dwarves became CGI characters.
3. The disappointing Evil Queen transformation scene and the auto tune of Gal Gadot singing during the transformation. Also, she was overspoken about her dark secret by telling Snow White she killed Snow White father after Snow White got poisoned by poison apple. She better zip her mouth and keep it secret. The way of Evil Queen died by breaking the magic mirror and became ash, get absorbed by magic mirror was not really satisfying. I wish she fell again from high cliff by lightning struck and scream hysterically.
4. Snow White didn't put inside glass coffin. Instead, the 7 dwarves put her on a big rock, furnished with flower gazebo and cried in front of Snow White. Come on, the 7 dwarves are miner and they probably know about blacksmithing so they should show their blacksmithing skill to make glass coffin and preservation way to keep Snow White stay beautiful.
5. Make the prince as thief + leader of rebel group was a bad idea.
@Anti-Matter I definitely feel like the Lilo and Stitch remake will likely be more commercially successful than Snow White, but I think that even though the bad performance of that film is having them reconsider remaking Tangled, they probably will still remake movies even if Lilo and Stitch bombs. They have the Moana remake next year, and I think that one is absolutely guaranteed to be a success given the popularity of the original film and sequel.
Yeah, Tangled is already perfect, so what is the point of them remaking it if it’s already good? There’s also the thing with the animation. I feel like with animation, there’s this charm and cartooniness with it that can’t be replicated well in live-action, and sometimes whenever they try to it looks bad or off. Not saying it always looks bad, but usually it looks off, and I especially think the animals will be ruined in that one…they’ll probably have their personalities sapped from it as well if they try to have them act more like real-life animals. Honestly, a remake of any sort only really works if the original product is badly done and they want to fix the flaws of the originals, it’s a problem with them remaking good movies because they were fine in the first place and had minimal flaws.
@Pastellioli Osmosis Jones was an okay movie for me at the time. Though I preferred The Iron Giant over this one but it's not a bad movie. just not for me but the cartoon series Ozzy and Drix was pretty good though.
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@DanijoEX-The-Kumiho I really like the creativity and animation with Osmosis Jones, especially with how they depicted the insides of the body and the white blood cells. I never watched the show, but I have heard of it. I do agree it was an okay film, though. I think the live action parts aren’t entertaining or as fun as the animated segments…they felt way more unfunny (not that the film is extremely funny but I think the jokes with the animated characters are way better in comparison) but it’s also the realistic gross-out humor that made the live-action segments especially kind of awful.
Gross-out humor I do think I should have expected though because of the premise, but I think all of the gross-out moments happening in live-action instead of being animated is what made it awful for me.
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Watched Interstellar the other day for the first time. Honestly it might be one of my new favorite movies. It's definitely not perfect, but it has a bunch of things that I personally really love. Such as:
1. A story set during or after an apocalypse where we get to watch people deal with it.
2. A strong central emotional core
3. Really out there and wacky sci-fi concepts.
4. The ability to tell its story and emotions just as much through the music as the dialogue.
So, yeah really enjoyed. Definitely a rare 10/10 from me, even though like I said, it is certainly not perfect.
As far as space-themed sci-fi movies go, it's solid. I felt that the rotating docking sequence was the high point. Certainly underappreciated, but that's sort of the usual level of enthusiasm for Christopher Nolan movies. As far as favorites in the genre? I would take Alien, Ad Astra, The Martian, 2001, and Gravity over Interstellar.
As for Christopher Nolan movies? The Prestige > Tenet > Inception > Interstellar > Dark Knight Trilogy. Although I haven't seen Oppenheimer, Memento, Insomnia, or Dunkirk. The Prestige has my favorite Shyamalan-esq twist. Tenet...takes multiple viewings to appreciate its complexities. Inception is pure style over substance (is he trapped in his own mind or not?). And Batman is...Batman.
@Pastellioli Yeah...the animated parts were really amazing. I think the movie was done by the same animation studio that worked on Iron giant. The quality was on par of that of many Disney animated film around the same time or so.
As for the tv show...I think it's worth watching.
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@Magician 100% agree that the docking sequence is awesome. The music, the visuals, and the performances are all top notch in that scene. The reason I love this movie so much in particular compared to other sci-fi films is pretty much just preference. Many sci-fi films are more horror-focused, which isn't bad necessarily, just not my cup off tea. As far of other Nolan films go, the only other one I've seen is Inception, which I also very much loved. It is basically 50% exposition and 50% heist, but the world-building it lays out is so interesting that all the exposition doesn't really bother me. I'm planning to watch the Batman films soon, and after that I'll definitely watch the Prestige. I do unfortunately already know the twist, but I'm looking forward to it regardless.
I haven't seen Oppenheimer, Memento, Insomnia, or Dunkirk.
After seeing Memento I was totally obsessed. My favourite of his. Best to go into it cold. Watching a lot of Nolan's films, and other similar films, might have dulled its impact on seeing it now for the first time though.
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