Blade Runner 2049 was... something. I liked it, in a way. But I didn't find it amazing. But it didn't suck either, but it left me with no real feelings on it.
It wasn't a movie I would see myself, but I went with a friend, so it was alright. I won't buy the DVD or whatever, but no regrets seeing it.
If any of that jumble makes sense
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:52 pm
by Madeus Prime
Stuartmaximus wrote:Nobody a fan of Stranger Things then?
**sigh** oh well....
must just be me that's going to binge watch season 2 then
So my university loaned out its biggest teaching theatre to anyone who wanted to watch ST2. Needless to say I sat there for a 12:00-10:00 snackfest bingeathon.
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:38 am
by Stuartmaximus
Madeus Prime wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:Nobody a fan of Stranger Things then?
**sigh** oh well....
must just be me that's going to binge watch season 2 then
So my university loaned out its biggest teaching theatre to anyone who wanted to watch ST2. Needless to say I sat there for a 12:00-10:00 snackfest bingeathon.
Cool
BTW that Shadow monster was freaky
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:19 am
by Stuartmaximus
Here! how come I didn't know about this?
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:16 am
by no-one
How are we talking Stranger Things and not talking about Ironhide's cameo?
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:56 pm
by Stuartmaximus
Christ! they've gone from tomatoes to donuts now
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:23 pm
by Stuartmaximus
Look! at this early stage, there's nothing to suggest that he won't! but I hope when the next Terminator movie comes out...directed of course by James Cameron...that he keeps the look of Skynet in it as that pyramid
because that thing looked cool
& not that awful steel mill look, in Salvation
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:10 pm
by Rodimus Prime
Stuartmaximus wrote:not that awful steel mill look, in Salvation
The only things wrong with Salvation were the jackass who directed it couldn't keep his mouth shut and the self-absorbed d-bag who starred in it is one of the most overrated actors in the history of movies. I still remember the director saying "This is what's gonna take down Transformers," referring to RoTF coming out a month after Salvation, and what happened? RoTF made 3 times the box office. Too bad it wasn't a better movie.
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 10:16 pm
by TulioDude
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:not that awful steel mill look, in Salvation
The only things wrong with Salvation were the jackass who directed it couldn't keep his mouth shut and the self-absorbed d-bag who starred in it is one of the most overrated actors in the history of movies. I still remember the director saying "This is what's gonna take down Transformers," referring to RoTF coming out a month after Salvation, and what happened? RoTF made 3 times the box office. Too bad it wasn't a better movie.
Watching ONE Punch Man now,pretty good.
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:22 pm
by Stuartmaximus
proper trailer either Thursday or Friday
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 5:19 pm
by Madeus Prime
Stuartmaximus wrote: proper trailer either Thursday or Friday
Ohhhhweeee!! That's either the Indoraptoror the rumored Baryonyx
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:44 am
by D-Maximal_Primal
Stuartmaximus wrote: proper trailer either Thursday or Friday
I am waiting eagerly
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:51 am
by no-one
Did ya like Stranger Things? Go watch Dark!
Actually I think comparing it to Stranger Things isn't even fair. Way more interesting and much better pacing.
Watching Dark is like
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:33 pm
by Stuartmaximus
This is funny
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:09 pm
by Madeus Prime
This gave me serious goosebumps. I'm not sure if the music is part of the new score or a repurposed classical piece, but ugh, that last violin part during the title made me shiver.
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:56 am
by Roadbuster
About time they add in the Carnotaurus and Suchomimus.
Supposedly we are getting a new species of Raptor courtesy of InGen as hinted towards the end of the pevious film.
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:52 am
by Stuartmaximus
Madeus Prime wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote: proper trailer either Thursday or Friday
Ohhhhweeee!! That's either the Indoraptoror the rumored Baryonyx
I think it's supposed to be the Baryonyx
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:41 pm
by Stuartmaximus
new Ready Player One trailer
soooo...who's all in it apart from the obvious you saw(Akira bike, DeLorean, Iron Giant, King Kong, Joker & Harley Quinn ect) well...there's also Chucky
Battletoads
& RX-78 Gundam
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:41 am
by D-Maximal_Primal
Madeus Prime wrote: This gave me serious goosebumps. I'm not sure if the music is part of the new score or a repurposed classical piece, but ugh, that last violin part during the title made me shiver.
It gave me goosebumps too... Oh man, this looks like a killer movie
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:01 pm
by Rodimus Prime
Time to dust off this old thing...
Went to see the new DeathWish last night. It was pretty good, a bit of improvement over the original. I thought it was still missing something, but overall I recommend it, it was fun for the most part. Considering the times, it was put through the PC wringer, but it was still enjoyable.
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:03 pm
by PrymeStriker
Ohai, my kind of thread.
Err, I...uh, I don't have time to scroll through this thread to see what's already been recommended, so forgive me if any of this crap has been already recommended by others. I'll share some of my favorite TV Shows first, and I'll try to avoid spoilers for those who want to invest in these mediums.
The hands-down best series I've ever watched has got to be Avatar: The Last Airbender. A fantastic combination of masterful characterization, storytelling, and mythology, with well-explored themes of spirituality, the effects of war, genocide, and governmental corruption, and considering it tells the absolute best character arc of anything ever in series antagonist Zuko, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a piece of art. Practically everyone who's watched the show through-and-through has given it a BJ or two. I'm highly critical of storytelling, and not a show seems to go by me without having enough episodes to create a Top 10 Worst Episodes list, but Avatar? There's like...one REALLY bad episode...a mediocre one....and then just 8 other episodes that range from rather good to damn good. Not even joking. I tried to make a "Top 10 Worst Avatar Episodes", and I found myself picking up episodes that are objectively well-written by around the fourth slot working back. It's incredible how well the show always cleaned up behind itself. It's dramatic, exciting, deep, emotional, funny...it's just got the perfect balance of everything in it. Funny, how balance is part of the show's overall theme. Goddamn...I can't recommend that show ENOUGH. Avatar: The Last Airbender is just a masterpiece.
Anyone here seen the English Dub of Ghost Stories? It's an anime that did pretty poorly in Japan, so when given an English dub, the dubbers were given absolute creative freedom to do whatever they wanted. In doing so, they turned this piss-poor anime into an OFFICIAL ABRIDGED SERIES, transforming the whole thing into this brilliantly written comedy. Literally every other line is this meta-reference or jab at American culture, and they even reconstruct entire characters to be this ruthless stereotype. It's one of the funniest shows I've ever watched, and probably stands as the best English Dub ever. It's pretty R-rated so, for any hypersensitive liberal arts majors out there, you're probably better off watching Moffat's Doctor Who, but if you're curious, look up "the greatest scene in anime history" on YouTube. It's golden.
Speaking of Doctor Who, that's a show I used to like when I was a kid. Except Steven Moffat is a terrible writer. Like, I hate him with a passion. He has no clue how to write a story arc, handle a character, or do anything worth investing in. It's such a bad show now.
One of my favorite movies is Holes (2004). It's a surprisingly intricate and well-written movie for something aired by Disney, which has become the juggernaut of standardized pop storytelling in recent years. A lovable cast with a really rich, interesting story, great acting and cinematography, and a good sense of humor as well, that will always be one of my favorite movies. But, I'll be honest, I'm always more invested in a show than a film when it comes to masterful storytelling. That's why I appreciate comedy films much more than any other genre of film. In comes South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut and Deadpool (2016), two of the best comedy films in existence. South Park is a really great, incredibly smart comedy show, but I feel like its 1999 film was a magnum opus. I could turn that on any day for a laugh. Also, Deadpool is just godly. A perfect balance of comedy and action, a little bit of drama, with tons of brilliant witty dialogue and meta-references for the comic book nerds, that film just took me by complete surprise. I'm not that keen on films of the modern era, so for Deadpool to just sweep out of nowhere...goddamn...I'm patiently awaiting that sequel.
I don't want this post to be a hundred paragraphs, so I'll cap it here for now. I'm looking into getting into shows like Batman: The Animated Series and Moral Orel. Anyone ever seen those? Are they as good as everyone says they are?
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:51 pm
by Rodimus Prime
I just saw ReadyPlayerOne. Very good. I'm not a gamer so I didn't get some of the things going on, but the movie was fun. G1 Megatron even made a cameo.
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:05 pm
by D-Maximal_Primal
Rodimus Prime wrote:I just saw ReadyPlayerOne. Very good. I'm not a gamer so I didn't get some of the things going on, but the movie was fun. G1 Megatron even made a cameo.
Sweet! I still need to see Pacific Rim Uprising, but maybe I'll do a binge next friday night or something
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:25 pm
by Rodimus Prime
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:I just saw ReadyPlayerOne. Very good. I'm not a gamer so I didn't get some of the things going on, but the movie was fun. G1 Megatron even made a cameo.
Sweet! I still need to see Pacific Rim Uprising, but maybe I'll do a binge next friday night or something
I saw that one last week, and it was a lot of fun as well. Amazing how much action can be crammed into an hour and 40 minutes when that pesky backstory isn't necessary (due to it being in the first film).
Re: Movies & TV reviews and suggestions thread
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:57 am
by Burn
Made the trip to see Ready Player One today, was hyped to see it because the book was **** fantastic.
The movie not so much. The core of it was the book, but so much was changed from the challenges (most of them revolved around 80's games which would have been lost on modern audiences) to what 80s pop culture appeared (I would imagine that had something to do with licensing) to specific plot points (book has Wade go into IOI not Artemis)
It was a decent movie, but I think most of the best bits were featured in the trailers. Overall though I was left a bit disappointed as it wasn't the 80's retro trip that I was hoping for.