Movie review thread...
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
God damn, I had forgotten how good the start of Red Dawn was. The great prologue, then immediately into some brutal action.
Soviet Union suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years
Labor and food riots in Poland. Soviet troops invade
Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strength goals of 500,000. El Salvador and Honduras fall
Greens party gains control of West German Parliament. Demands withdrawal of nuclear weapons from European soil
Mexico plunged into revolution
NATO dissolves. United States stands alone.
Not a movie, but have you read Red Storm Rising? It's tied for my fav book ever, and seems to be playing out for real right now
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Batman movie is pretty good.
Real se7en light vibes and a well put together story with actual detective shit going on.
Some of the shots were amazing. Were a couple of clunky scenes and one silly “white people bad” line, but 99% was well done.
Son loved it, discarded the shit out of my daughter.
4 out 5 batarangs
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@kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
Batman movie is pretty good.
Real se7en light vibes and a well put together story with actual detective shit going on.
Some of the shots were amazing. Were a couple of clunky scenes and one silly “white people bad” line, but 99% was well done.
Son loved it, discarded the shit out of my daughter.
4 out 5 batarangs
Does it continue the continuity of Batman or is it yet another re boot ?
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
Batman movie is pretty good.
Real se7en light vibes and a well put together story with actual detective shit going on.
Some of the shots were amazing. Were a couple of clunky scenes and one silly “white people bad” line, but 99% was well done.
Son loved it, discarded the shit out of my daughter.
4 out 5 batarangs
Does it continue the continuity of Batman or is it yet another re boot ?
Multiverse Earth 2 version of Batman in his second year.
Flash movie will have Battfleck and Earth 89 Keaton Batman too. So at least three of the buggers running around this yeah.
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@kirwan If i have a decent enough TV...do i need to see it in the cinema or can i wait?
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@kirwan If i have a decent enough TV...do i need to see it in the cinema or can i wait?
100% a big screen movie. Whoever the cinematographer was pulling out all the stops. Comic book noir type movie, and just the sound alone is worth going out for.
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i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
not sure you've quite nailed it because lots of comics have continuity going decades, personally i think its because they keep these stories going for so long they write themselves into corners and so a way to keep going (and yes making money) without completely rebooting whole universes (which they have also done a few times) is to have multiple realities
still about money...but slightly less cynical as far as im concerned
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
not sure you've quite nailed it because lots of comics have continuity going decades, personally i think its because they keep these stories going for so long they write themselves into corners and so a way to keep going (and yes making money) without completely rebooting whole universes (which they have also done a few times) is to have multiple realities
still about money...but slightly less cynical as far as im concerned
which i am cool with, because comic books come out weekly/monthly for years and years and years and years.
If you are releasing a Spiderman movie every 3 years, it shouldn't be that hard.
Now we are doing Batman as well? I've lost count of how many Batmen i am up to in my life, could be quite the movie to get them all in (I want to see 2022 Val Kilmer in a batsuit)
Superhero movies have peaked. There's still enormous amounts of money to be made, so we'll keep going. But we've peaked.
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@mariner4life ok, if we're talking just movies rather than comics then yeah, i get ya. the number of batmen and spidermen over the last couple of decades is a bit stupid
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I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
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@crazy-horse said in Movie review thread...:
I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
"One of The Batmen"
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
Elseworld stories have been part of fiction for 60 years.
For comics, it lets you lose from being constrained by "canon" and tell a different story. After a few decades can be a bit of a nightmare to keep track of everything Batman is supposed to have done.
I'm just pleased it wasn't another origin story.
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@crazy-horse said in Movie review thread...:
I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
Another comic book nod. I like it as he doesn' call himself "Batman", other characters refer to him as the bat man, because he's dressed like a freak.
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@crazy-horse said in Movie review thread...:
I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
A Batman doesn't have the same ring.
