The Movie Thread

[TRF_Olyy]

Pretty underwhelmed by the Venom trailer

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Pretty underwhelmed by the Venom trailer

Agreed. I like the concept but it just seems too dark, too Hardy-fied. Should have some fun elements to it.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

I mean Venom is a dark character though.
Also film can never be TOO Hardy-fied.

I liked it TBH, still not sure on how it will work without being in the spidey-verse and the writing was a bit cheesy BUT Venom looked like Venom to me so that gives me some hope.

 

[Groundhog]

Saw Infinity war at midnight with some nasty thicc boys and have mixed feelings. Won't spoil anything obviously, but I definitely left the movie feeling a bit unsatisfied. A lot of stuff was great and interaction between characters was great as you'd imagine, but it felt less high stakes than I thought it would and the ending as I mentioned frustrated me a bit.
Obviously still a big affair that's really worth seeing. Really liked Thanos' character and motivations. He's not a stupid vaguely motivated thuggish villain who just loves destruction for the sake of it or something. Great casting choice too.
Also, I wouldn't bother with the post-credits scene. Children were born, grew old and died in the time it took for the credits to roll.

Also on the venom trailer "your boss is an evil person" is not only a line in a movie, it was a line they thought was hard hitting enough to include in the trailer. I don't really see the point of venom minus spider man. I mean his appearance is supposed to be based on and kind of a parallel to Spider Man. Knew they'd hit up the relatable Anti-Hero line as well. Not looking forward to it.

 

[Big_Grumper]

Hurricane Heist. It's a Sky production and produced by the fella that did Fast & Furious.

It's b*ll*cks. Don't bother.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Thought infinity war was class to be honest, saw it this morning and thought it was really well done and enjoyable.

 

[big ginger 8]

Saw Infinity war at midnight with some nasty thicc boys and have mixed feelings. Won't spoil anything obviously, but I definitely left the movie feeling a bit unsatisfied. A lot of stuff was great and interaction between characters was great as you'd imagine, but it felt less high stakes than I thought it would and the ending as I mentioned frustrated me a bit.
Obviously still a big affair that's really worth seeing. Really liked Thanos' character and motivations. He's not a stupid vaguely motivated thuggish villain who just loves destruction for the sake of it or something. Great casting choice too.
Also, I wouldn't bother with the post-credits scene. Children were born, grew old and died in the time it took for the credits to roll.

Also on the venom trailer "your boss is an evil person" is not only a line in a movie, it was a line they thought was hard hitting enough to include in the trailer. I don't really see the point of venom minus spider man. I mean his appearance is supposed to be based on and kind of a parallel to Spider Man. Knew they'd hit up the relatable Anti-Hero line as well. Not looking forward to it.

You just haven't gotten over the lack of empty iron man suits making porn.

 

[Groundhog]

You just haven't gotten over the lack of empty iron man suits making porn.

Those comments were made in confidence.

 

[big ginger 8]

Overall it was quite a good film. It's very long with a lot of different focuses so the editing and concentration is story telling had to be on point which it mostly was. Anyone who loves Marvel will love it. I did really enjoy it with my only real complaint being that as is standard for these films, some of the fight scenes were badly edited, mostly the earlier ones, also generic bad guy army that we don't have to feel bad about slaughtering cliche, which slightly grates at me.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

My name is Lenny on Netflix, based on the real life Guvnor Lenny McLean's 3 unlicensed boxing matches with Roy Shaw. The actor who plays Lenny is very impressive and has his facial mannerisms down to a tee.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I'm catching up on Marvel films so I can watch the new Avengers, so just watched Doctor Strange.
Was never a big fan of the character in the comics but enjoyed the film more than I thought I would. Effects (the "world bending" and reversing time) were top notch, but thought Cumberbatch's accent was a bit ropey at times, right at the start I didn't even realise he was American for a few minutes.

 

[Rich Taff]

Looks like DC have decided to go dark for a change....(even darker!)

 

[bushytop]

I'm catching up on Marvel films so I can watch the new Avengers, so just watched Doctor Strange.
Was never a big fan of the character in the comics but enjoyed the film more than I thought I would. Effects (the "world bending" and reversing time) were top notch, but thought Cumberbatch's accent was a bit ropey at times, right at the start I didn't even realise he was American for a few minutes.

I thought the strange film was pretty good, particularly the visuals... he turns up for a cool little cameo in Thor: Ragnarok too. Then he is at his best (so far) in Infinity War, great film.

 

[big ginger 8]

Looks like DC have decided to go dark for a change....(even darker!)

That's a TV show , DC movies seem to be going the other way based on Shazam.

***ans does look fairly shite but I'd imagine the budget is tiny given its for DCs streaming service. Still I'd like to trust Johns with this property.

 

[ncurd]

That's a TV show , DC movies seem to be going the other way based on Shazam.

***ans does look fairly shite but I'd imagine the budget is tiny given its for DCs streaming service. Still I'd like to trust Johns with this property.

I don't from the trailer they appear to have utterly failed in understanding Dick Grayson's character.

 

[bushytop]

Watched Upgrade last night, good little sci-fi actioner... perfect Saturday night fodder.

 

[big ginger 8]

I don't from the trailer they appear to have utterly failed in understanding Dick Grayson's character.

His current character yeah but it's not really that ooc for Dick when he's at the point of striking out on his own to become Nightwing, which is that stage he's at in ***an. The line is terrible but the sentiment is in keeping with him at that stage.

Also Geoff Johns is the writer of a huge amount of the best and biggest DC books over the last 20 years. One of those was a really good Teen ***ans run so that's where the trust comes from.

 

[Groundhog]

Only watched the ***ans trailer yesterday. Main thing that came to mind was that it looked like an overly edgy, stereotypically DC dark and moody cheap cringe tv show. How many times is it going to take DC to realise that people are tired of their dark (tonally) atmosphere and dark (as in actually difficult to see) aesthetic. I'll try give it a watch though online for two episodes, because I really enjoy Batman stuff and find Gotham really good.
In contrast I can see Aquaman being kinda interesting weirdly. Some of the shots from the trailer look cool and I would imagine it cost an absolute fortune even by modern superhero budgets to make (which isn't indicative of a good movie of course, but at least no goddamn rewrites that were so obvious in past DC productions).
Shazam looks worth a watch. I think it could actually be one of the DC movies that goes down really well with people. Has the dude from the Conjuring movies directing weirdly.

 

[bushytop]

A bit late to the party on this one but watched American Made last night, great film... the Cruise performance as Barry Seal was Oscar worthy.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Watched Deadpool 2, Thor Ragnarok and Doctor Strange recently. Liked them all with Deadpool having a lot of very childish humour, which personally I'm fine with.

Thor was good to, nice humour and it was fun to watch.

Doctor strange also good but a bit less comic relief