Amentep Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Gfted1 Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Amentep Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 Never thought Krypto would make it into live-action. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Gfted1 Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 But Krypto can fly! I wonder why hes slumming it by running. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Hurlshort Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 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?
Amentep Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 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. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Bartimaeus Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 (edited) 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 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
LadyCrimson Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 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. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Hurlshort Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 Also Clark Kent looks exactly like Moss from IT Crowd
uuuhhii Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 kraven certainly deserve the overwhelmingly terrible review the dialogue are impressively terrible not bland or redundant but embarrassingly terrible
LadyCrimson Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 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. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
majestic Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 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. 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Hurlshort Posted December 21, 2024 Posted December 21, 2024 @LadyCrimson You need to watch the IT Crowd ASAP.
Bartimaeus Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Amentep Posted December 26, 2024 Posted December 26, 2024 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. 1 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Bartimaeus Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) 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. Quote 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 January 4 by Bartimaeus 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Bartimaeus Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024). There's something about the three OG shorts that I don't think anything else will really ever be able to touch in their charming simplicity, good pacing, and small but tight cast of characters...but unlike the Chicken Run sequel, this is still pretty good. Maybe not Were-Rabbit good, but I liked it better than A Matter of Loaf and Death at least. I think I would've preferred a more original story without the Feathers McGraw tie-in (he's right there in the movie poster, this isn't a spoiler), but it is what it is. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Lexx Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Watched the latest Venom movie. Ratings don't seem to be that good, but I didn't hate it. Guess if you didn't mind the first two movies, then the third will be ok too. Didn't fell asleep while watching, so not one of the worst comic movies. "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
Sarex Posted Sunday at 07:46 PM Posted Sunday at 07:46 PM On 1/11/2025 at 5:57 PM, Bartimaeus said: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024). There's something about the three OG shorts that I don't think anything else will really ever be able to touch in their charming simplicity, good pacing, and small but tight cast of characters...but unlike the Chicken Run sequel, this is still pretty good. Maybe not Were-Rabbit good, but I liked it better than A Matter of Loaf and Death at least. I think I would've preferred a more original story without the Feathers McGraw tie-in (he's right there in the movie poster, this isn't a spoiler), but it is what it is. Wallace goes hard... "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
uuuhhii Posted Monday at 12:30 PM Posted Monday at 12:30 PM director of resident evil again how much budget is this going to waste
Lexx Posted Monday at 09:08 PM Posted Monday at 09:08 PM (edited) Milla Jovovich is always an indicator that the movie will be garbage. Has been like that for years, likely won't change now. /edit: lol, this is one of those trailers where they show you the whole movie in short. Edited Monday at 09:09 PM by Lexx "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
majestic Posted Monday at 10:55 PM Posted Monday at 10:55 PM (edited) Heretic (2024) The only question left is does he dream me, or am I dreaming him? Do Mormons have magic underwear? Are adult movies a tool of the Lord? Is Jar Jar Binks a prophet of Christ? Is Judaism related to The Landlord's Game, and if so, does that make Bob Ross the face of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints? How many similarities make plagiarism? Why does great responsibility come with great power? Was Voltaire the first Spiderman? Does someone really need to know what they're talking about, or is it enough to be confident about it? What does that have to do with Hugh Grant looking like an aging Jeffrey Dahmer? Can NPCs be resurrected? Can they go off-script? And lastly... is the pie a lie? Well, pull up a chair, get your trusty Monopoly game box and strive to control the board. If these questions didn't pique your interest, then I can't really help you. However, if you ever found yourself wanting to watch a horror film with a fantastically delightful and affable Hugh Grant that doesn't need jump scares to evoke a feeling of terror and dread, then you should give this a spin. Don't let the premise of "two young women walk into the house of an older man, and something's awry" let you be turned off for lack of originality, it is only the film's final act where it becomes somewhat rote (with or without following the red herring). The performances of the actors make the film, and they smoothe over the (minor, but present) problems, and the return to standard horror form in the film's final parts. Edited Monday at 11:15 PM by majestic 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Sarex Posted Monday at 11:34 PM Posted Monday at 11:34 PM 38 minutes ago, majestic said: Heretic (2024) The only question left is does he dream me, or am I dreaming him? Do Mormons have magic underwear? Are adult movies a tool of the Lord? Is Jar Jar Binks a prophet of Christ? Is Judaism related to The Landlord's Game, and if so, does that make Bob Ross the face of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints? How many similarities make plagiarism? Why does great responsibility come with great power? Was Voltaire the first Spiderman? Does someone really need to know what they're talking about, or is it enough to be confident about it? What does that have to do with Hugh Grant looking like an aging Jeffrey Dahmer? Can NPCs be resurrected? Can they go off-script? And lastly... is the pie a lie? Well, pull up a chair, get your trusty Monopoly game box and strive to control the board. If these questions didn't pique your interest, then I can't really help you. However, if you ever found yourself wanting to watch a horror film with a fantastically delightful and affable Hugh Grant that doesn't need jump scares to evoke a feeling of terror and dread, then you should give this a spin. Don't let the premise of "two young women walk into the house of an older man, and something's awry" let you be turned off for lack of originality, it is only the film's final act where it becomes somewhat rote (with or without following the red herring). The performances of the actors make the film, and they smoothe over the (minor, but present) problems, and the return to standard horror form in the film's final parts. I had that movie on my watch list. Will give it a go. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
Hurlshort Posted Tuesday at 12:46 AM Posted Tuesday at 12:46 AM 3 hours ago, Lexx said: Milla Jovovich is always an indicator that the movie will be garbage. Has been like that for years, likely won't change now. /edit: lol, this is one of those trailers where they show you the whole movie in short. I would think the fact her husband is directing would be the main indicator that it will be exactly as expected. She still looks fantastic, though. I'll watch it when it comes out on streaming. I thought Bautista was all into serious acting stuff now?
Lexx Posted Tuesday at 07:16 AM Posted Tuesday at 07:16 AM (edited) Nah, it's not just him. The Hellboy movie from 2019 wasn't directed by him, it featured Milla Jovovich and it was so bad I couldn't even finish it... not even with sleeping through it. Edited Tuesday at 07:16 AM by Lexx "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
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