Movie Thread

@ILoveMyoozik  
Actually never saw the first, but I imagine it’s about the same plot “twist” at the end.

@Nightweaver20xx  
The first one does seem interesting, despite not being a fan of found footage films.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Yeah, but when CGI effects happen on a film, everyone is gonna lose their shit. What else can you do without CGI to do some shit like special effects without hurting anyone?

@Nightweaver20xx  
|| The Cloverfield movies always had aliens. Like the first movie is all about a giant Godzilla sized alien destroying New York. ||

@ice1517  
The problem there is, if you’re billing your movie to be a big cosmic who-dun-it and you want the twist to remain a mystery, don’t make the sequel have the same twist as the first. I mean, anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together could guess the ultimate antagonist of 10CL in that case. I mean, I did, and I’m an idiot.

@Nightweaver20xx  
|| but the first movie foesnt have any twist in it. Like at about the first 10-15 minutes, we already know that an alien is invading earth. We get multiple scenes, of said alien. The main story is that the main characters are trying to evacuate New York becuase of said alien.
 
There is no big twist in the first one, we already know that it’s gonna have aliens in it. ||

It’s funny when you realize that Toy Story 2’s production was very rushed behind the scenes, yet the end results turned out fantastic. “You can’t rush art” indeed.

May I show my Blu-Ray library?

@Minshi Woods  
yeah sure

I’m also willing to show my Blu Ray collection.

So I’m finally watching The Hurt Locker… my god, I’ve never seen a movie so far up its own ass. Seriously, this has got to be the most pretentious piece of shit I have ever seen. THIS was the movie that beat Avatar in 2009 for Best Picture at the Oscars? Fuck me, I am in awe at the presumptuous trash this film is. There was just a scene in a desert between snipers that went on for fucking ever. It would not end. At one point I thought the cameraman must have fallen asleep. Now there’s this wrestling scene between drunk soldiers in the barracks, with this handheld camera arthouse style that… ugh. Wow.
 
But wait, let me take a step back. This was 2009. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were in full swing, and America was fascinated with soldiers and Middle East wars. We were all gung-ho, America first, ready to police the whole world. So Hurt Locker unfortunately was a product of its time, a movie that will either appear VERY dated in about another decade, or somehow achieve immortal status like Saving Private Ryan or Patton did.

@Nightweaver20xx  
Oh that was what “The Hurt Locker” was about. I’ve always assumed it was some comedy film or some shit.

I don’t understand why Independence Day: Resurgence got a TV-MA rating on FX, with a warning before each segment that says it contains “scenes of nudity.” There’s no nudity in a PG-13 movie. I don’t get it.

Just saw Skyscraper with Dwayne Johnson. Thought it was a cool movie, but for an action movie, it did have some funny moments bizarrely enough…

@Nightweaver20xx  
I enjoyed the idea of John Goodman being the antagonist, mostly because I’ve never seen him play a villainous role before (though, to be fair, he seemed more insane than outright villainous).
 
That, however, is about all I can say I “enjoyed” about the movie. The end was way too predictable, which outright killed any real enjoyment I could have gotten out of the experience. It almost felt like one of those “M. Night moments” where they clearly wanted a twist, but they forgot what a twist actually was.

I saw the new Halloween film, and it was pretty alright. I’m not into slasher films, it’s not my thing, but it was a film that I could appreciate at least. One scene in the film though just made me groan and roll my eyes though. So there’s these two British journalists making a documentary on Michael Myers and they stop at a gas station. The lady goes to the restroom and starts to get attacked by him. She hides in a stall while clutching a crowbar and doesn’t decide to use it! Seriously, her partner gets beat up to death by Michael, and she doesn’t use the ONLY GODDAMN WEAPON SHE HAD WITH HER! Instead, the bitch cowers and screams like a goddamn pussy and gets her neck snapped by him. God was this scene so friggin retarded.

So I saw The DaVinci Code because I finished reading the novel last week, and my God was it a boring film. It’s funny how text and words on paper managed to be more entertaining than moving pictures on a screen. The one thing I will give the film credit though is that it’s surprisingly almost accurate to the source material. I’m shocked.

@ILoveMyoozik  
|| tbf didn’t her partner attack him with the crowbar first and Myers didn’t even react to it? It’s established that Myers is a lot tougher then most people and he has survived a lot worse (Like getting stabbed in the eyes, shit multiple times in the chest with a high powered revolver, and then falling from the top of a house).
 
Girl probably thought that it wouldn’t do much to slow him down.
 
Plus, this is just a normal journalist vs a psychopath that’s already killed like 5 people in the past. Most people would be shitting themselves if they were in her position. ||

@icey wicey 1517  
Still, I expected her to fight back because she had a weapon with her.

So I rewatched James Cameron’s “Avatar” again the other day. I have to say, 9 years removed from my initial love affair with the movie, it doesn’t quite hold up as well for me as it did in 2009. From then to around mid-2010, I was obsessed with Avatar. I saw it in theaters five times, the only movie I’ve seen more than once in the theater. I bought the soundtrack. I joined an Avatar forum to discuss the world and the culture. I even talked to my mother in Na’vi for a few weeks.
 
But here I am in my late 30s and it’s just not the same film. It’s still visually impressive, but even that is showing some age. I can see the seams, so to speak, where the compositers overlaid CG with physical effects. The CG never 100% fooled me into thinking it was real, but now even less so. I also scoff a little more at the story than I used to. It’s clear it’s very derivative, and the acting is fairly stiff and wooden in sequences. It really is basically “Pocahontas” meets “Dances with Wolves” in spaaaaace. I mean come on, the natives even have horses. I mean sure, they’re space horses with six legs and a seahorse face, but come on. And why do they use bows? Why do they do war chants and woops like Native American tribes?
 
That isn’t to say I don’t still enjoy watching it. Some parts still get me emotionally, like the end with Neytiri holding Jake in her arms, but it’s not the cavalcade of tears I had almost a decade ago. A lot of the magic is gone, and maybe some of it has to do with Cameron dragging his feet on the sequel(s). He announced them, what, six years ago? Is he even making them? When are they coming out? Are they even coming out? After awhile, even a diehard fan like me gets tired of waiting. Cameron’s ego may be starting to get the better of him, I think.
 
I still want to go to Pandora, but not to stay there. Maybe just a week’s vacation.

Have any of you seen Train to Busan?
 
I really saw the movie on Netflix and it was really good. Sure, it’s a horror, but it’s also an action thriller with lots of feels. It’s in Korean btw. An amazing emotional rollercoaster for a zombie horror action film.

I just saw “Meet The Spartans” again because I remember my 10 year old self finding this movie funny. Now as a 20 year old, it felt like I wasted 2 hours of my life.

They’re really making a “Bumblebee” origin movie? They’re actually doing this? Who asked for that?

@Nightweaver20xx  
Why Hollywood of course!

@ILoveMyoozik  
at least it is not directed by Michael Bay. Sure, he’s producing it (and most of its films he produced were more misses due to terrible to mediocre directors like Marcus Nispel or Jonathan Liebesmann) but I see that people are more optimistic about this than the last Bayformers films.
 
Hopefully, it can save Hasbro from being bullied by film critics (MLP didn’t save it due to mixed reviews regardless of being faithful to the source material) and can add up to more moneymaking on the box office (maybe to prove an article about “Bad Box Office Opening” for Bumblebee wrong).