Movie Discussion! - Page 409

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Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

May 02 2018 20:34 GMT

#8161

On May 01 2018 11:10 zev318 wrote:
if every one of the actors/actresses of the marvel universe disappeared forever. who would u guys replace them with? go.

Will Poulter for Black Widow

brian

United States9633 Posts

May 03 2018 13:49 GMT

#8162

honestly to cast anyone else as Ironman or Deadpool is straight heresy and i won’t hear it.

farvacola

United States18840 Posts

May 03 2018 14:00 GMT

#8163

Relatedly, I can't really see attempts at casting anyone other than Hugh Jackman as Wolverine working out.

Plansix

United States60190 Posts

May 03 2018 15:50 GMT

#8164

It would take a pretty talented actor to get out from under that performance and bring something new to Logan. But the look of Wolverine isn’t that challenging to pull off. It is all about the sideburns, stubble and looking great in white undershirt.

goody153

44236 Posts

May 07 2018 12:06 GMT

#8165

Seen Passengers it was a fairly decent scifi. A bit sentimental but didn't expect to enjoy it but i did.

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

May 07 2018 13:27 GMT

#8166

The Edge of Seventeen

A coming of age story about a 17 year old highschool girl (nadine) who for most of her life was an outsider and only really has one friend. One day her best friend hooks up with her way more popular brother Darian and Nadine cannot really deal with it.
This movie definitely uses a lot of the clichés you would expect, Nadine is the loner who thinks she is way more mature than everyone else while in reality struggling with growing up and socialising. Her single mother has a hard time to raise the children and needs help from her eldest Darian. There are the common highschool tropes as well. But it still works when added together because there are little twists to it, expanding a bit above the stereotype and thus providing some nuance among all the tropes. Another big reason has to be our main lead who plays the role wonderfully. The other actors do a good job as well, especially Woody Harrelson who has great chemistry with Steinfeld when they banter along as teacher and student.
This is no masterpiece in any way, but it's a good story about growing up and everything which comes with it.

7/10

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True Grit (2010 version)

This is a story about Mattie Ross a 14 year old girl who seeks revenge for her murdered father. She hires an US marshal named Rooster Cogburn who is the typical wild west man, drinking a lot ad shooting well. They get accompanied by texas ranger LaBoeuf and try to find the murderer together.
The technical aspects of this movie are excellent as you would expect from a coen brothers' movie, it looks excellent and captures the nature of the era very well. The actors do an excellent job (especially hailee steinfeld as a 14 year old surprised me, way better than the performance in the original) and the atmosphere created is captivating.
I have a big problem with the script though, a lot of really convenient circumstances arise and all of these added together made it hard for me to care about the actual plot. Which is sad because everything around it was very well done.
It's still a good movie all things considered, but i am disappointed because it could have been more.

7/10

The Garden of Words

This is a movie from Makoto Shinkai the man behind the extremely successful "your name". People recommended to check out his past work and i finally did.
It's about a japanese high school student Takao Akizuki who wants to become a shoemaker and an at first mysterious mid twenty woman Yukari Yukino. On rainy days they both meet each other in the national garden, just sitting there reading a book or drawing some shoes while chatting a little.
Obviously there is more to it than that but i don't wanna spoil much, it's only a 45 minute short film anyway.
It's definitely one of the most beautiful anime movies i have ever seen, which was to be expected from the director of "your name" but this one might be even a bit more impressive. It will also hit you in the feels, it's simply shinkai's style and he already knew how to do it back then. Sadly i felt that the story is really thin though, almost too thin already for the current runtime. It's also a bit overly melodramatic which lessens the emotional impact a tiny bit. I would still recommend it though, don't expect a masterclass work like "your name" though, it's merely good.

7/10

While all these three movies are 7/10 material, i listed them in order from best to worst in my opinion, just to have an idea (if you can even compare these movies in the first place)

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The Artist

Man was i disappointed with this movie, it could have been so great if only it didn't have these pacing issues due to a very thin story. It's about George Valentin a silent movie star who doesn't wanna realize that the new talking pictues are the future of filmmaking. The theme of the new replacing the old is well done, especially because you also follow one of the new stars a bit, but his struggle with this new reality is repeated ad nauseam and this drags quite a bit because at that point in the movie there really isn't anything outstanding happening on any front, no new information nothing.
Why was i disappointed? Because i think this had the potential to be a masterpiece, the technical aspects are outstanding, be it the acting (Jean Dujardin does a very charming job), the cinematography and set design (very nice camera movement and angles to reflect his inner thoughts) and even some neat surprises in a dream sequence which are quite "meta".
The music is also excellent and integral for this movie to work, it's a silent film after all. I liked the movie, what it did well it did really well but that feeling is exactly why i was so disappointed with it afterwards. Cut a few things here and there and you have a truly great film, now it's overall "only" good.

7/10

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This is just a really well made romcom. I typically hate that genre, it's only dumb jokes and unrelatable, superficial characters. Not in this one though! I still didn't outright laugh a lot, but that's just me and my taste in humor. It had a lot of good jokes though, it was amusing. The real strength is the plot and its characters, it just feels real and you care for what happens.
It's about a pakistani living in america who falls in love with a white woman. Why do i specifiy the race? Because it's part of the problem, our main character Kumail is supposed to marry a pakistani muslim woman, otherwise his family might just expel him.
I know this little synopsis doesn't sound terribly original, but it is handled really well and the writing is the big strength here.

8/10

TheTenthDoc

United States9561 Posts

May 16 2018 13:01 GMT

#8167

I just watched Witch-Hunt and oh boy, I didn't realize the party game horror genre had kicked off in 2017. I think the makers of One Night Ultimate Werewolf might be able to sue the producers of that movie if it weren't already just a unique combo of other party game traits. They even use the same app gimmick...but it's a cassette for some reason.

It starts terrible and then takes a turn into bad-good towards the end. Almost, but not quite, worth watching for the hammy monologue at the end.

polgas

Canada1764 Posts

May 16 2018 18:11 GMT

#8168

Den of Thieves - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259528/
Absolute fairy tale of a cops and robbers movie. The beginning was promising, telling me life as a security guard in LA must suck a lot. Then it introduces Gerard Butler as the supposed protagonist, but then all he does is endanger the people he is supposed to protect on pretty much every scene. As a result I've skipped all the sappy build up parts as I just don't empathize at all with this cowboy. As for the bad guys, the characters felt incompletely fleshed out. The gun battles were well done and I didn't anticipate the ending, but in the end I just didn't care enough who survived. If you want to see a better movie, go look Hell or High Water - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582782/.

ffswowsucks

Greece2297 Posts

May 17 2018 22:08 GMT

#8169

I just came back from Deadpool2. Had so many expectations since I was a HUGE fan of the first film. I d give DP2 a 6.5 (DP1 was a 10 for me).

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the script sucked big time. Had some really good jokes but also some really bad ones. The kid was really bad at acting and I feel the whole thing with the "they are pedophiles lets kill them" thing was a bit too much.

Emnjay808

United States10660 Posts

May 22 2018 07:21 GMT

#8170

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

I randomly stumbled across it's opening scene on youtube and it immediately caught my attention: Lavish home-cooked Chinese cuisine prepared and served by a father to his three daughters. But you could already feel the internal strife within the family amidst the feast and get a sense of whats to come for the rest of the movie.

Romance-wise Id give it a solid 8.5/10.

Comedy 7/10.

Overall I'd highly recommend this movie if this scene intrigued you as much as it did to me.+ Show Spoiler [youtube vid] +

Manit0u

Poland17496 Posts

May 24 2018 12:29 GMT

#8171

Fahrenheit 451

I have no idea why this movie has such low scores. I think it was a pretty good adaptation of the book and the film was very entertaining. They sure did change the plot a bit but I was fine with it since they had to somehow update it to match more modern times and weave in the related problems we brought into the picture since the book was published.

Definitely recommended.

IgnE

United States7681 Posts

May 24 2018 23:42 GMT

#8172

it has low scores because its awful. farcical overwrought scenes reminiscent of the worst of youtube, unbelievable premises given the friction free transmission of information, ridiculous additions not found in the book, takes itself too seriously, and somewhat misses the point

polgas

Canada1764 Posts

May 25 2018 20:14 GMT

#8173

Star Wars The Last Jedi - slightly better than Force Awakens. A lot of forced comedy that are not really funny, just like TFA. Some situations stretch the believability thin. Like how does the First Order get that strong being led by such blundering idiots, or how the rebels just brush off the losses from an impulsive leader who still acts like a comedian. The story needs a strong dose of serious.

ffswowsucks

Greece2297 Posts

May 25 2018 20:50 GMT

#8174

I went to see han solo with my cousin we both left the cinema after 1 hour...

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

May 25 2018 21:11 GMT

#8175

On May 25 2018 08:42 IgnE wrote:
it has low scores because its awful. farcical overwrought scenes reminiscent of the worst of youtube, unbelievable premises given the friction free transmission of information, ridiculous additions not found in the book, takes itself too seriously, and somewhat misses the point

Man, you did a good job of deflating my expectations.

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

May 25 2018 22:03 GMT

#8176

On May 26 2018 05:50 ffswowsucks wrote:
I went to see han solo with my cousin we both left the cinema after 1 hour...

So I see that reviews for Han Solo are overwhelmingly mediocre. Are people mostly upset over pedantic things, or is it legit not a very good movie?

ZerOCoolSC2

9007 Posts

May 25 2018 22:07 GMT

#8177

I highly recommend any of the Detective K movies. They are hilarious and brilliantly made. Also, if you need more Korean movies A Better Tomorrow, The Merciless, and The Good, The Bad, and The Weird(?) are good to watch.

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

May 25 2018 22:14 GMT

#8178

On May 26 2018 07:03 Chairman Ray wrote:

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So I see that reviews for Han Solo are overwhelmingly mediocre. Are people mostly upset over pedantic things, or is it legit not a very good movie?

There's a droid called L337. Make of that what you will.

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

May 25 2018 22:42 GMT

#8179

On May 26 2018 07:14 CosmicSpiral wrote:

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There's a droid called L337. Make of that what you will.

The original star wars features a dude called skywalker though

Uldridge

Belgium4974 Posts

May 25 2018 23:33 GMT

#8180

The seventies were more romantic, dreamy, full of opportunity. A name like Skywalker fits in that context.
L337 fits in the context of the 2010's being drowned with meme culture. I personally prefer the former, until it gets too cheesy, then I loathe both equally.

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