Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u

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[Gfted1]

 

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Never thought Krypto would make it into live-action.

[Gfted1]

But Krypto can fly! I wonder why hes slumming it by running.

[Hurlshort]

I watched that Superman trailer on mute and it looked like a lot of other movies. But maybe James Gunn will make it fun. Do they expect this to do well in theaters?

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4 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

But Krypto can fly! I wonder why hes slumming it by running.

Plot reasons?

1 hour ago, Hurlshort said:

I watched that Superman trailer on mute and it looked like a lot of other movies. But maybe James Gunn will make it fun. Do they expect this to do well in theaters?

The teaser is really relying on the soundtrack. 

I imagine they are expecting it to do well.

[Bartimaeus]

The Wallace and Gromit films are being re-released in 4K! The history of home releases of Wallace and Gromit have consistently been riddled with issues - between wrong aspect ratios, missing lines of dialogue, original music missing/replaced with other pieces because of licensing issues, wrong playback speeds, incorrectly pitched audio...so it'd be nice if... if they just used AI to puke out these new 4K discs while also not fixing any of the other problems, all just to make a quick buck on a $120 collection set.

**** you, James Cameron.

Edited December 19, 2024 by Bartimaeus

[LadyCrimson]

I'm not sure I'm seeing a Superman in that trailer. But there is a SuperCuteDog, so I guess that's something.

Nicholas Hoult as Lex - that could be interesting. Or not. He's an actor that I've liked in a few films/roles (one was About a Boy, as a kid, The Menu, Warm Bodies, I guess Xmen) but he's not typically a "huge charismatic presence/larger than life", either as good or evil. Still, could be interesting.

I don't know - Superman could still be fun, but they keep turning him into some super mentally tortured, "my life is so harrrrrd" character, and I find that almost as dull by now as the "I'm too cartoonishly invulnerable for my own good". I think I prefer a confident but rationally cautious and aware of his weaknesses, Superman.

[Hurlshort]

Also Clark Kent looks exactly like Moss from IT Crowd

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kraven certainly deserve the overwhelmingly terrible review

the dialogue are impressively terrible 

not bland or redundant but embarrassingly terrible

[LadyCrimson]

17 hours ago, Hurlshort said:

Also Clark Kent looks exactly like Moss from IT Crowd

I'm not familiar with that reference, but my original thought seeing this Kent was awkward-Peter-Parker. Not in looks so much as body/expression carrying. And yes, that hair style is blargh, lol.

I didn't realize the guy with the terrible blond bowl haircut was 1-Nathan Fillion and 2-Guy Gardner. I mean his face/hair made me think of younger Joe Pesci for some reason and ofc I knew it couldn't be him so I looked it up.
That made my interest go up maybe 8%. Guy Gardner can be an interesting chr. Not sure the size of his role in this film tho. It does look like this movie is going to not spend as much time with the "origin" of Supes, which is good, but I wonder if that means it'll simply fall into the "too many chrs/arcs" trap earlier.

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22 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:

I'm not familiar with that reference

You might want to familiarize yourself though. There are some parts of IT Crowd that haven't aged too well, but it's still incredibly funny.

 

[Hurlshort]

@LadyCrimson You need to watch the IT Crowd ASAP. 

[Bartimaeus]

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Watched Eggers' Nosferatu, less a remake as an attempt to craft a story that follows beats from the original film (an unauthorized adaption of the Dracula stage play), from the Dracula novel and from European folklore traditions. I described it afterwords as a story crafted in a way to make sense of the major Vampire elements.

The mix is a gloomy horror film that is permeated by a feeling of doom and an almost cosmic horror approach to normal people wrestling with the unnatural evil the nosferatu represents as love, sex and death entwine them all.

Not as weird as The Lighthouse (albeit sharing similar ideas of encountering a vast and unknowable something) it feels more of a companion piece to The VVitch.

[Bartimaeus]

Casablanca (1942).

I hadn't watched this for like, twelve years, and it was just once at like 1 in the morning with my mom near Christmas on some TV broadcast. I thought it was great back then, and now, re-watching it...it helps me realize how much dumb writing and direction I sit through in movies that don't get anywhere even close to 1942's Casablanca. This is a movie where I don't really care that much about the subject material, the locale, or even particularly the characters or themes, but I sit through it and I have a great time regardless. And my goodness, the whole movie goes by so fast, and it's really hard not to wish that similarly excellent movies could be consistently made every year - even better if they're about things or people you're a little more predisposed to care about. It's kind of the anti-Citizen Kane for me, which I find to be borderline unwatchable despite the two of them being released within a year of each and both being hailed as all-time dramatic cinema.

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Yvonne: "Where were you last night?"
Rick: "That's so long ago, I don't remember."
Yvonne: "Will I see you tonight?"
Rick: "I never make plans that far ahead."

A man after my own heart.

Edited yesterday at 04:19 AM by Bartimaeus