Movie review thread...
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I'd add too that this is quite an exciting change in how films could be made. No way you would want to go to a theatre to watch a four hour film.
But as this is split into six chapters and an epilogue, you could watch this over several days.
Allows for more complex stories to be told in film, sort of how we are getting ten episode bingable series on Netflex/Disney Plus.
This is a no compromises version of a film.
That said, there is a three hour cut of this that could be made, there is a lot of indulgence going on. But I love the extra depth, and time being taking to build characters.
The first film felt like Superman didn't need anybody else, this version had all the Justice League working together as a team. Wheddon butchered that first version.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Midway
Fucking loved this. Splosions n war n shit, but pretty tastefully done and showing the Japanese side as well.
Mandy Moore suits the 1940s aesthetic like a glove. She is gorgeous.
No tits.
is it good? i have sort of avoided because
Pearl Harbour
There was already a fucking great Midway movie.
True.
I have a memory of trying to watch Pearl Harbour and just thinking that I saw Ben Affleck already in Armageddon so culd stkip it.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I'd add too that this is quite an exciting change in how films could be made. No way you would want to go to a theatre to watch a four hour film.
But as this is split into six chapters and an epilogue, you could watch this over several days.
Agreed - in a similar vein, other things I've seen on Prime Video are actually miniseries built from putting 2 films together in that fashion. It makes for a departure from having to cram everything into 2 hours, or need 3 piss breaks for a true epic.
And sometimes you see a series of 10-13 episodes that is padding out.
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@mariner4life And yes: I thought it was good. A little jarring to see a British actor in the lead trying to pull off a New York accent, but I think he does a good job.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Midway
Fucking loved this. Splosions n war n shit, but pretty tastefully done and showing the Japanese side as well.
Mandy Moore suits the 1940s aesthetic like a glove. She is gorgeous.
No tits.
You make one statement then contradict it in the next sentence. I’m confused
You're a simple creature.
Undoubtedly, but gorgeous and no tits together does not compute.
I meant no tits shown on camera.
She's still gorgeous.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Midway
Fucking loved this. Splosions n war n shit, but pretty tastefully done and showing the Japanese side as well.
Mandy Moore suits the 1940s aesthetic like a glove. She is gorgeous.
No tits.
You make one statement then contradict it in the next sentence. I’m confused
You're a simple creature.
Undoubtedly, but gorgeous and no tits together does not compute.
I meant no tits shown on camera.
She's still gorgeous.
Oh right, cheers for clearing that up.
Yeah I remember her being easy on the eye
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Could not agree more. Recorded it yesterday, watched it today over many hours and just as you said Kirwan, because it's in Chapters, it made it easier to watch in more than one sitting.
On the movie itself, wow, I thought it was brilliant. So much better than the Joss floss. Even Superman's lip looked much more natural.
There was depth in story, depth in character and a plot that made sense.
@Kirwan, do you know if Snyder has an involvement in the other DC Universe movies due out over the next few years?
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@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Could not agree more. Recorded it yesterday, watched it today over many hours and just as you said Kirwan, because it's in Chapters, it made it easier to watch in more than one sitting.
On the movie itself, wow, I thought it was brilliant. So much better than the Joss floss. Even Superman's lip looked much more natural.
There was depth in story, depth in character and a plot that made sense.
@Kirwan, do you know if Snyder has an involvement in the other DC Universe movies due out over the next few years?
Nothing, unfortunately.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan he's made a case. Most people find superman too good and too powerful. The epilogue was fantastic and that movie has to be made. We, the people who are cold on superman get to watch him as a villain and that would fucking rule.
It’s also the most original and risky take on Batman. It shouldn’t work but it does.
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@Kirwan hour and a half in, so mush going on this could have been two awesome cinema releases, not flawless but really good
Making one film cinema length film was stupid
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Much better job of the mo!
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Much better job of the mo!
One advantage of only using footage from before he grew it.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Much better job of the mo!
One advantage of only using footage from before he grew it.
Really? The first fight scene looked pretty similar to the original
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Much better job of the mo!
One advantage of only using footage from before he grew it.
Really? The first fight scene looked pretty similar to the original
At the Superman statue? It was longer, and had the stupid Batman joke removed.
A lot of different dialogue.
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The biggest praise so far...it makes sense. It reminds me to Kingdom of Heaven, famously bad movie on release...but the +3hr directors cut made list of one of the best directors cuts, I honestly believe just because all the little things they removed to make it cinema length...are all the small things that make the big things make sense
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They actually mention the flash dream sequence! Am I right they didn’t in the original
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I was going to list a few things but realised it easier just to say it was great, any critiques I have would actually just be about how they could have split out some stuff and made a whole trilogy of movies, worth watching
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Only other thing I wasn’t sure about was the epilogue, it was great...but I don’t see the point In Setting stuff up they’re not going to follow through on, it’s just a tease
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