Movie review thread...
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@kirwan there are multiple universes, or timelines to DC arent there, and therefore different Batman's (or should that be Batmen?) and Superman's/men, so expect there are variances to each character as they have evolved in the timeline?
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan there are multiple universes, or timelines to DC arent there, and therefore different Batman's (or should that be Batmen?) and Superman's/men, so expect there are variances to each character as they have evolved in the timeline?
Yep, both Marvel and DC are about to lean heavily into that.
It’s possible that there will be a year that we see three Batmen and three Spidermen on the screen at the same time.
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
What fantastic music! What a great final line for a NHS advert!
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I hope no one is really a fan of Batman vs Superman. Taste is subjective but that was a drawn out dirge fest (and I've watched 4+hour Russian films).
Ben Affleck is no Batman, apart, maybe, from his chin. And Irons is wasted, wasted I tell you!
Bring back Ima Thurman in a catsuit. I'd even have Arnie back. But the Batman franchise has just become a bored rich guy in a corset trundling through his basement, pausing to look dejectedly at screencams like he was Robert Smith's fat emo goth-child, and getting dissed by the help. Oh and Batman doesn't do guns. Sorry.
Don't get me started on how Aquaman was so boring they just stole Namor and pretended local people can afford hard liquor in Iceland. Biggest pain there was the love interest though, she must have an agent as good as her divorce lawyer.Batman doesn't use guns? Except for when does;
https://www.cbr.com/batman-gun-use-why/
Even Burtons 1989 Batman used a gatling gun on the Batwing and rocket launchers!
Him upping the violence after being manipulated by Luthor is a key part of the plot. I'm a fan of the Ultimate Cut that includes the key story pieces that WB refused to allow for time.
As for Ben Affleck, he's an excellent Bruce Wayne and Synders take on Batman is the closest we've had to a comic accurate Batman so far. The warehouse scene in BvS is peak Batman.
Ok Affleck is the best Batman in a corset and hairpiece.
Comic-accurate? Hmm. Ok, I went to see a film but the film I saw was nowhere near as good as the old comics IMO.
The warehouse scene-where Batman just stabbed a guy, to death I think?
Guns, I am not alone:
But heck I am not defending a movie, I just found it ponderous, your response may well be different.
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@nostrildamus the Batman gun thing is an often repeated criticism for the Synder films.
But for it hold you have to ignore the 1989 film (where he kills people all the time) and the many comics where he uses guns.
Particularly Frank Miller stuff. Christ he had a tank in that one.
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Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
Is that the one with Aaron Ekhart as president, and the North Korean baddie?
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus the Batman gun thing is an often repeated criticism for the Synder films.
But for it hold you have to ignore the 1989 film (where he kills people all the time) and the many comics where he uses guns.
Particularly Frank Miller stuff. Christ he had a tank in that one.
You keep writing Synder not Snyder. I thought it was a typo but now changing my mind to you believe the film was directed by accounting software. That wouldn't surprise me. (Incidentally, I thought Affleck was good in The Accountant and Gone Girl).
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@nostrildamus I blame auto correct:)
I take canon as canon. He’s used guns plenty of times, and killed as well.
I linked some comic examples above. It’s a silly criticism.
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@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
Next you’ll be telling me Commando is unrealistic.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
Next you’ll be telling me Commando is unrealistic.
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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...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
Next you’ll be telling me Commando is unrealistic.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
From eight years ago:
Olympus has fallen is a throwback to completely over the top movies. Park your brain somewhere before watching it. It is a movie for a rainy day when you're sick at home. Any suggestion you're operating more firing synapses than required for existence will have you groaning and developing a migraine at the stupidity in the plot.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
From eight years ago:
Olympus has fallen is a throwback to completely over the top movies. Park your brain somewhere before watching it. It is a movie for a rainy day when you're sick at home. Any suggestion you're operating more firing synapses than required for existence will have you groaning and developing a migraine at the stupidity in the plot.
I'm not a Gerard fan. But he was badass in that film
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caught London has fallen one night on TV last year...wife really enjoyed it, had to go back and watch Olympus and then even rented Angel, it was the same with the Fast and Furious series, ended up watching them all...just a reminder i really will never understand my wife
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looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
