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Post by crowschmo on Feb 21, 2017 17:21:24 GMT -5
Pan.
Just 'cause...well, it was free. I knew it was going to be a stink bomb, because, well, the trailer, and also, the original story itself is kind of creepy, but anyway...
Holy crap, that sucked! The guy who played Hook seemed like he was doing a bad impression of Karl Urban as Bones in the new Star Trek movies. Damn it, Jim - Peter - I'm a miner, not a pirate! (Heh, not his words, but one can hear it in one's mind's ear). Not "Hook"y at ALL.
And Hugh Jackman IS (not!) Blackbeard.
And, they sing...Smells Like Teen Spirit?! Blitzkrieg Bop?! Out of the blue, like, for no REASON one could fathom. HUH?
It was just a mess, I don't know who pitched this thing, but they couldn't have been sane at the time. (Nor the ones who gave it the green light).
Ich.
Did I mention it was free?
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Post by Torgo on Mar 24, 2017 1:35:03 GMT -5
Torgo enters the thread and suddenly this theme plays...
Damn, I was hoping it would be this music to set the mood...
So guess what movie I saw?
Power Rangers
Five teenagers are chosen by alien power coins to become a superpowered group of protectors. They have eleven days to prepare for the battle of their lives against a rogue Ranger named Rita Repulsa from using her giant minion Goldar to uncover the Zeo Crystal, the powerful source of life on Earth.
If you rolled your eyes at how silly this sounds, this isn't the movie for you. But if you're like me and you geeked out a little just hearing that this movie involves "the Zeo Crystal," then SEE THIS MOVIE NOW.
I admit that I was a Power Rangers fan when I was a kid. I was probably a Power Rangers fan a bit longer than I probably should have been. To be honest, my love of Godzilla acted as something of a gateway into my love of this silly show with giant robots and monsters wrecking stuff every week. Looking back on Power Rangers, it was a really silly show, but I have a nostalgic unconditional love for it even to this day. I even watched episodes of Dino Super Charge a few weeks ago with some friends, which was still fun. Nothing better than getting drunk and watching a kid's show you've been too old to watch for decades. A lot of that had to do with the new movie hitting theaters, and here we are.
Power Rangers is a flawed movie. I can't really say for certain that anybody outside of those who already have accepted the Power Rangers mythos into their hearts will "get it," but Michael Bay's convoluted take on the slightly less convoluted Transformers mythology seems to go just fine with moviegoers, so who knows? And to be honest, this movie does a far better job of adapting, updating, and expanding it's own mythology far better than any Transformers movie did. Or GI Joe. Or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (barring the original from 1990 that is). This movie is fairly successful at taking a storyline that in all honesty was a half-assed, simplistic wraparound for Japanese footage in its inception and turning it into something that actually sounds really cool. The movie's best scene is honestly it's first, which features Zordon and Rita as Power Rangers at odds with each other. I wanted MORE of this, not just because I felt it needed more context (which it kind of did), but because seeing this take on the Rangers history really made me curious to know more about it.
I'm not condoning prequels in general, but I would totally see one centered on Zordon, Rita, and the original Rangers.
Bear in mind that just because my favorite scene was the opening doesn't mean the rest of the movie is downhill. To be honest, given my attachment to Power Rangers, this movie gave me the feels. I nerded out at times, got lost in the ride in others, and just overall had a good time. The only other film that was able to do this to me was Sam Raimi's original Spider-Man. And after seeing all these other franchises based on characters I grew up watching on Saturday morning come to fruition as feature films, I'm very happy I found one that replicated that feeling I had way back in 2002.
The new takes on the Rangers themselves is fairly brilliant. I loved the use of Billy as the heart of the team, and he really carries the emotional weight of the film. The new take on Trini as quiet, inward, and self-reliant is pretty inspired as well. News stories have been abuzz calling her the big screen's "first gay superhero" (this is actually not true, because Kick-Ass 2 featured a hero who was out of the closet), but in the film it's neither confirmed nor denied, though it's openly implied (and if true, #TeamTrinberly). I have a bit of issue with aspects of how Kimberly's story played out (involving, oddly enough, sexting and nude selfies), but I applaud the portrayal of guilt and how it can weigh on one's shoulders, and the internal debate of whether or not that bad thing you did makes you a bad person.
At the core of Power Rangers is the message of teamwork, and this movie spells it out fairly well and incorporates it into the plot. The idea that the Rangers can't morph unless they trust, befriend, and be willing to die for each other is wonderful. It's a well placed message that I think children will respond to. However, because this is the core of the movie, that means we don't get any Ranger action until the end, which becomes a bit of a problem with a film that runs two hours long. And when the Rangers suit up, they have one brief morphed battle before they call out their Zords. I'm a bit of a Zord enthusiast with Power Rangers, so it's not too much of a negative with me, but more street level action would have been welcome.
As for critique of the film objectively, it has issues. While the film embellishes on Ranger mythology quite a bit, at times it skims over things or things happen "just because." This is fairly noticeable in the final act in which the Rangers form the Megazord. The Megazord is not mentioned at all until this point, and the formation comes as a surprise to just about everyone, leaving the viewer to wonder just what the hell happened. One can't help but wonder if they added so much to the Power Rangers concept, why exactly do they leave random things unexplained like this?
If anyone has any sort of affection for any incarnation of Power Rangers, this is a movie that's definitely worth seeing. Superhero fans may find something to love in it's zippy, gee-whiz nature as well. Those who roll their eyes at all things superhero, Power Rangers or not, are definitely best staying far away. But there's magic here for those who are willing to see it, and it made me feel like a kid again.
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Post by Mod City on Mar 28, 2017 15:15:07 GMT -5
Suicide SquadLittle late to the game here, as usual, but I finally saw this. I really didn't think it was too bad, but by now most here will know I'm pretty easy to please. I've just never really been a DC fan, especially the comics. I enjoyed the original first two Superman movies and liked Michael Keaton in the first two Batman flicks. After that, the Batman franchise just took a dive for me. Didn't like the Kilmer or Clooney incarnations, and I thought the Christopher Nolan Batman movies were grossly overrated. The Dark Knight was the only one I halfway liked, and even watching that was more like work than entertainment. I feel bad for Heath Ledger, he was clearly extremely talented and he's good as the Joker, but he wasn't that good. Man of Steel and Batman v Superman were both decent enough, and I liked them more than the Nolan movies, but they're still weak in general. Part of the problem is Superman - he's so powerful that it makes it hard to weave a compelling story around him unless A) He's fighting other Kryptonians, or B) Kryptonite is involved. And it always seems to be. But Suicide Squad is a bit of a different animal. It's the first DC movie based on a team, at least as far as I know. I've always been interested in them as I've owned the first issue of the 1987 volume since it came out. The concept is cool, but they stumble introducing the lineup without stand-alone movies for each character to develop within. It's just too big of a group to feel invested in having just met them all at the same time. They do try, though, and by the end you start to feel as you know them. A little bit. While Superman seems ridiculously overpowered, these guys seem comically under powered. These comic book characters, for the most part, seem to have no powers. Deadshot is just a really good shot. Harley Quinn is what, crazy? Is that a power? Slipknot is just, well, lame. Rick Flagg is just a soldier. Captain Boomerang has a cool, unique signature weapon that's known to come back when thrown, only his never seem to come back to him. Everyone knows Batman has no powers, just brains and gadgets, but this is taking it pretty far. This shouldn't really be a problem, but when they talk about who would have stopped Superman from destroying the White House, do they really think these guys would have been able to stop him? Geez, no freaking chance. Superman sneezes and the whole group is garden mulch. Unless they have Kryptonite, which I'm sure they probably do. Somewhere. Diablo is the only really interesting character in the group, and he's played really well, in my opinion. Hesitant to fight, you can see he's conflicted. Ironically, he's easily the most powerful of the lineup. It figures that what happens to him would be his fate in a movie like this - {Spoiler} Although props to the director for having the balls to kill off the coolest character in the movie. Otherwise, I thought Will Smith was probably the best thing about the movie in terms of acting, outside Jay Hernandez. Oh, Leto was also perfectly good as the Joker. Yes, as good as Ledger. And I'm sorry, I don't get the appeal of Harley Quinn. I like Margot Robbie and her performance here is good, but again, I don't get it. This is probably where the Marvel fan in me should stop writing and pick up a DC book and do some reading. Either way, considering how much money this thing earned, I'm assuming they'll make another. Now that we've got the introductions out of the way maybe they can get down to making some really compelling entertainment. I'll tune in for the next go-round to see what happens.
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Post by timmy on Apr 19, 2017 16:38:05 GMT -5
DVR this movie last year:
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Post by Scizor-Mothra on May 6, 2017 20:07:17 GMT -5
Mothra (1961, English Subtitles)
Of course, I love Mothra in the Godzilla franchise, and her great movie trilogy, but I never knew that her first movie was so great.
Or that the plot got recycled for other Kaiju films so much.
I don't usually watch much TCM, and I didn't even know that they show subtitled movies. Kind of obvious now that I think about it...
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 30, 2017 12:31:13 GMT -5
The Debut (1970)Thought my fellow MSTies might find this interesting. So I’m watching this movie about an ugly duckling, part time actress with bad luck (she is usually stuck playing Baba Yaga, the witch, in plays). One day she’s offered the lead part in a film about Joan of Arc. I enjoyed the movie a lot, and the actress (the real one, not the character) is real good in it. But she seemed awfully familiar to me... I looked her up and discovered that she’s the actress who played the spoiled sister in Jack Frost. Jack was only her second movie, and she went on from that to have a long, fruitful career, filled with international acclaim and awards. She wasn’t bad in Frost by any means, but I didn't see anything to indicate that I was watching a talented star being born. You can see the film on youtube… www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5pvcGw49I
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Post by Caedmon on Jul 3, 2017 19:12:30 GMT -5
Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars back-to-back for the first time. I had seen Yojimbo once before and A Fistful of Dollars several times before watching them both in the same day. Yojimbo is a great movie, but I definitely prefer Leone's take on the story in A Fistful of Dollars for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. I'm probably in the minority on this one.
Yojimbo 8/10
A Fistful of Dollars 9/10
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Post by Torgo on Jul 13, 2017 23:39:55 GMT -5
War for the Planet of the Apes I suppose you could say Planet of the Apes was my Star Wars as a child. I would watch the (then) five films over and over until I had them memorized, and I'd say they've inspired me creatively as well. To this day I am fascinated by the structure of the third film, which starts out as a lighthearted comedy but becomes increasingly darker and more intense as it goes on. Time went on and Apes wound up in the spotlight again off and on. Tim Burton's "re-imagining" came, went, and nobody gave two sh*ts, and I concurred. Rise snuck up on a public that didn't want another and surprised all with how good it was, and I concurred. Then came the enigma that was Dawn, which was being hailed as a masterpiece by nearly everyone...and I didn't concur. I found it a cliched slog with cardboard cutout characters and a mathematical equation of what might be emotion put into practice without understanding what emotion actually is. Say what you will about Tim Burton's film, but at least it realized it was style over substance, while Dawn pretends its something more without knowing or caring what. I blamed Matt Reeves at the time. I haven't liked any of his work, which includes overrated garbage like Cloverfield and Let Me In, and while I hoped my affection for this particular franchise might make me softer on Dawn, it didn't. While I found it to be his best film, it just still wasn't very good. I watched it for the second time preparing for this film, and my opinion hasn't changed. I do consider maybe I'm biased against the talent and I'm not willing to give them a fair chance. But if that were true and I hated Dawn because I hated the director, why did I love War so much, which has the same director? War for the Planet of the Apes brought the most thrills, the most excitement, and the most raw emotional power for me since Escape from the Planet of the Apes. I felt my skepticism easing down early on as I inched to the edge of my seat and glued my eyes to the screen. This is pure visual, kinetic storytelling, with just as much being said with silence as there is with words. But such things have always been a strong point of this rebooted Apes saga, but it is truly mastered here. Performances are taken to the next level as well. While I've never largely been on board the Andy Serkis hype train (I thought he was a good actor, but never really thought twice about him), I must say he is spellbinding as Caesar in this movie. Steve Zahn gives a performance in this film that I honestly thought was beyond him. Woody Harrelson commands every scene he is in, proving to be Serkis's equal in every scene they share. And for the die hard Apes fan, there are Easter eggs galore calling back to the original series. The film didn't need them and probably would have been just as good if not better without them, but they were fun to spot. What's even better is that they're interwoven into the plot of the film quite beautifully, and not as clumsy as Tom Felton stiffly reciting Charlton Heston dialogue and needless Taylor's mission nods which Rise was quite guilty of. If there were anything I'd change about it, I'd say the climax goes a touch over the top. The avalanche is a bit much, and Caesar's death is extremely melodramatic, especially in comparison to Cornelius and Zira's death in Escape, which for my money is one of most gut wrenching things ever put on film. One thing I will say in Caesar's death's favor is that it's an earned melodrama, so it's not a huge problem for me. When Matt Reeves was announced as the director for the next Batman film the internet celebrated, but I groaned. This was the director who made me bemoan my beloved Apes franchise after its ressurection and I didn't want him to drown Batman too. But now's he's the director who both made it fall from grace and renew my faith in it in a one-two punch. I really don't know what to think about that. But at least now I can honestly say he's capable of making a good movie. Even a great one. That makes me look to Batman with a little more optimism. Nostalgia goggles ranking: 1. Escape from the Planet of the Apes 2. Planet of the Apes (1968) 3. War for the Planet of the Apes 4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 5. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 6. Battle for the Planet of the Apes 7. Planet of the Apes (2001) 8. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 9. Beneath the Planet of the Apes Ironic note: When I saw Dawn in 2014 the theater accidentally played the 3D version at our 2D screening. The problem was corrected early on. The same thing happened at this film three years later, except they said they couldn't correct it and gave the entire theater 3D glasses instead, without charging extra. The 3D was fairly good, though I wouldn't call it a necessary experience. Those who see it in 2D won't be missing much.
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 17, 2017 18:12:16 GMT -5
Plan 9 No, not Plan 9 from Outer Space, just Plan 9 Just an homage to Ed Wood's craziness of the original. A small town. A comet. Energy waves spreading out from an old, abandoned school. Which resurrects the recently dead. Aliens controlling said dead to wipe out mankind. No Tor Johnson, but it was written by John Johnson. Don't know if he's any relation, his IMBd page is sparse. He's the guy who played the cop with the glasses in the trailer who said, "Dead guy." and "Got 'em!" Not bad, actually. No, it's not GOOD. But it's not supposed to be. It's totally tongue-in-cheek and doesn't take itself seriously, because, as I've mentioned, it IS an homage to Wood. But it's completely watchable. A line I laughed at: A group of survivor's are stuck in a store (with glass doors and windows, mind you - those undead are weak, heh), and as they're looking outside at the dead walking around, one guy says, "It turned out to be a really sh*tty day." Another line actually made me crack up for some reason, I don't know why I found it so funny, but anyway: There's that group of people stuck in the store, wondering if they should risk leaving or not. One guy is worried about his wife whom he got separated from. She's stuck in the sewers with another group of people, they are trying to get to the old school to try to stop the pulses. The cop (who wrote the screenplay) is with them and he starts talking on his walkie-talkie to see if anyone else is around and alive. There's a police scanner/radio in the store and the other guys hear the cop, and start talking to him. The one guy is relieved to find out his wife is okay, and they start talking to each other, saying they love each other and all that kind of stuff, and one guy says to hurry up, the battery is about to go dead. And as the husband and wife are talking, the battery does go dead, and the guy gets frustrated and smashes the radio. Another guy says, "Well, so much for the radio. We are in a store. We have batteries." For some reason that just made me laugh. Anyway, it was a cute way to kill some time. Not bad for the type of movie it was.
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Post by Torgo on Oct 4, 2017 1:04:05 GMT -5
Cult of Chucky
Child's Play/Chucky has been a favorite movie series of mine since I was a nine year old secretly tuning into TNT and watching the slasher movies that I didn't want my parents to know I was watching. For several years I'd watch the original trilogy whenever they were on, and once it hit cable Bride of Chucky joined them (becoming pretty much an instant favorite). Years later Seed of Chucky became the first and only Chucky movie I got to see in a theater, and while I seem to like that movie more than most (seriously, parts of it are pretty friggin' funny) it was a bit of a letdown.
A few years ago the series was given a beneath the counter reboot of sorts as a direct to video franchise with Curse of Chucky. I wasn't sure whether I anticipated it or not, but I was mostly celebrating the gorgeous box set of all six movies that came with it that day. I had heard good things about Curse, but when I finally popped it in the player I didn't really see what all the fuss was about. In retrospect the people praising the film seemed to be those who rejected the dark comedy route the series went into with Bride, of which I embraced whole heartedly. The fact that Curse wanted to be a horror movie wasn't what turned me off from it, it just felt like a cheap and lazy one, with a budget that just wasn't there. Even still, Chucky's given a brand new storyline completely out of the blue, leading up to an ending that didn't really make sense which also led into an end credit scene that, while an awesome cameo, which made even less sense paired up with the film that came before it.
I'm not sure what I expected from Cult of Chucky. I knew I was going to watch it, but I wasn't anxiously following every piece of news. In the end it takes the things that I felt made Curse a dull detour and jammed them into the Chucky mythology of the first five films, trying to make sense of all of it. And you know what? It actually does a good job. The Andy Barclay storyline of the first three films, Tiffany's storyline from Bride and Seed, and Nica's storyline from Curse become intertwined, and it feels like the series has direction again.
The film has Mica committed to a mental institution, where she is of course being treated for her insistence that a doll was responsible for the deaths in the previous film. Meanwhile Chucky dolls start appearing in the hospital, and she tries to figure out which one is Chucky. Or are they all Chucky?
With the title being Cult of Chucky, you figure it out.
Alex Vincent returns as Andy Barclay, after Justin Whalen took the role in Child's Play 3 and his brief cameo in Curse. It's very clear that Vincent hasn't been acting much since Child's Play 2, but it's still good to see him again. His subplot doesn't amount to much, but he has some nice moments. The film's opening scene gives him a bit of tragic loneliness to his character's epilogue story from the original films.
The film has some genuine surprises in it's runtime. I remember raising an eyebrow at several instances and being curious where this is all leading. It ends on either the most frustrating cliffhanger or the perfect ending for Chucky and Tiffany, or possibly both. Chucky 8 will no doubt be made, so it's likely we'll see where this might be headed (unless they abandon the storyline again and introduce a new one like they've done twice already). I for one will finally be excited for one of these DTV Chucky films.
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Post by crowschmo on Nov 20, 2017 11:57:40 GMT -5
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Watched this one because it was free.
Holy crap, what a stink bomb of a movie. I don't understand how people can make stuff like this and think they're doing something worth watching. Don't know if the book is any better, I have no desire to read it.
Kids with peculiarities and abilities hide out in a time loop from the rest of the world because they are ostracized and harassed by said world. One kid's grandfather had been a part of it, but joined the army in WWII so was out of the time loop. He tells his grandson stories of all the kids and things, and one day the grandson finds the gate to the time loop and meets all those people he was told about.
The kids and their protector, Miss Peregrine, are also hiding from Peculiars who had gone bad (who had turned into monsters, which had become invisible). The grandson helps. His ability: He can see the monsters. Wow. That's...great.
All the other abilities are pretty stupid, also. A girl who can control air: she floats and needs lead shoes to stay grounded, and can suck the water out of a sunken boat and viola, there's air in it. There's an invisible boy, a really strong little girl, a girl who can...grow plants(?), a girl with a big monster mouth with huge teeth on the back of her head, a girl who can touch things and freeze them. A kid who can turn dolls and skeletons alive by putting hearts into them. Just where he got the hearts isn't explained - uh? is he a murderer? Twins who need to wear hoods because they can turn people to stone by their looks. A boy full of bees.
Really dumb. Don't watch.
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Post by Caedmon on Dec 10, 2017 21:04:34 GMT -5
The Disaster Artist. Super funny and well made. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it. I wasn't sure what to expect at first, but it is a seriously fun movie. Make sure you stay after the credits to see a funny cameo appearance by none other than Tommy Wiseau himself.
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Post by Torgo on Dec 28, 2017 3:54:54 GMT -5
I actually saw a bunch of movies today, including The Shape of Water and The Disaster Artist. Both were very good, but I'll leave the gushing over these films to the other people who have already wrote about them. I'd rather talk about a movie swept under the rug...
Jeepers Creepers 3
This year a few of my favorite cult horror icons were dusted off and given new films. Cult of Chucky was one that I enjoyed quite a bit, meanwhile the Creeper makes his return after nearly fifteen years absent from the screen. When we last saw him he was on the brink of reawakening for another twenty-three days of terror in their cycle, so writer/director gives fans exactly what they want to see by...setting the film in between the first two and teasing the origins of the creature without actually revealing any.
I mostly kept away from spoilers on this film, though I had heard it was pretty bad. After watching the film I found that spoilers wouldn't have ruined much of anything, since almost nothing happens in the movie. The Creeper just slaughters a few people while any attempt at a storyline leads nowhere. Instead there is quite a bit of plot dangling, setting up a potential fourth film, but I'm left wondering why the film they're teasing wasn't made as the third instead. In the end I can't help but feel it had to be budgetary, by making a movie with a limited timeframe and serves no purpose they could make it for much cheaper. Maybe.
Speaking of budget, I had heard that this was fairly cheap looking. During the first fifteen minutes of so I found these accusations to be a bit blown out of perportion. It didn't look as good as the first two, but its low budget seemed well balanced and it's mood was effective for the most part. But as the primary storyline started rolling the majority of the film begins to take place in daylight. This is a downright ballsy move for even the most confident of horror films, because it's hard to translate bright and open into frightening. It's here that the film takes a turn for the worse and starts to look shoddy. The CGI becomes glaring, and there is no atmosphere. The film begins to regain itself during its mostly night scene finale, but it still manages to fumble the ball. Our fearsome antagonist is starting to look sillier in his old age, as a lot of his new death toys feel like they should be remarkably ineffective and owe something to luck if they actually work. Hell, there is even a point in the film where the Creeper himself idioticly triggers one of his own traps and takes a spike to the head. And we're supposed to fear this guy?
Not all is wrong with the film. One of my favorite aspects of previous Jeepers flicks is the use of framing and backgrounds. In many shots of these films you can see something going bump in the night behind the characters that you might miss upon first viewing. This third film utilizes that technique a couple of times as well, sometimes quite creatively. It reminds me of what I've liked about this franchise even though I'm not quite digging the latest installment.
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Post by Mod City on Feb 1, 2018 17:22:39 GMT -5
Blade Runner 2049Needed something to watch Sunday night so I checked out Blade Runner 2049 streaming in Vudu last weekend. I discovered the original like many others did - by renting it on VHS in the late 80s and expecting a very different kind of movie. I'll admit, I wasn't entirely sure what to make of it at first, but I did like it. I would catch it again every now and then, and it slowly dawned on me what a great, powerful story it is. Crazy lighting and hypnotic music. When references to it began showing up in weird places (the movie title was a high school quiz bowl question I heard once, Pop Will Eat Itself wrote a song called "Wake Up, Time To Die" that sampled Leon from the movie, and of course "More Human Than Human" by White Zombie) I realized many others felt the same way. And hell, even if it was added on after the fact, "Blade Runner" has to be one of the coolest sci-fi movie titles ever. So on to the new one. Wow, if nothing else this movie is flipping gorgeous. And really that would have been enough, but all in all this is really well put together. I watched in 4K Ultra on a brand-new television (Merry Christmas to me), and I have to say it was something else. They captured the feel of the original very well, even while exploring different tones and hues from the first movie. I can't say enough about the pacing and style. Despite the movie culture and age we live in, this movie is paced like the original, which is incredible. Action sequences actually make sense and don't happen ever 50 seconds. They make the audience pay attention, and if they do, they're rewarded with a fantastic mystery/thriller/sci-fi adventure. They aim for the brain with this one, and 99 percent of the time it's a bullseye. I honestly don't really know Ryan Gosling's work at all, but he's excellent in this. Without giving too much away here, he has some outstanding emotional moments - one of which shocked the hell out of me and literally made me mist up. That's some good acting. The performances are top-flight. All of them, really. And the plot is interesting, mysterious and completely arresting. Tough to say much more without spoiling it - I'll include some of those points in the spoiler tags below. {Spoiler Notes}* The scene that got me with Gosling was when he learns that he is not the son of Deckard and Rachel. I'm not sure how I didn't see that coming, but his reaction to the news is absolutely heartbreaking. I've read some didn't like this plot twist, but it hit me like a ton of bricks. I thought it was great.
* The whole Replicants reproducing on their own reflects the story of the Cylons in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactic, which in turn was inspired by the original Blade Runner. There are many, many similarities between the two overall stories. But the Blade Runner movies are far more cinematic in their interpretation. Overall, a great experience. I watched it a couple more times despite its 2.5+ hour running time, just to catch some moments I liked or clarify some scenes that confused me the first time around. It's not perfect, but to deliver as well as they did with a followup to an almost unnaturally beloved flick is a miracle in itself. I'll have to check out The Arrival, as I've never seen any other work of Denis Villeneuva. Impressive, sir. It's hard to not recommend this movie, both to those who loved Blade Runner, hated Blade Runner or never saw Blade Runner. Your mileage may vary, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Post by Torgo on Feb 6, 2018 3:57:17 GMT -5
The Cloverfield Paradox
Woof.
Stay away. Stay far away.
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