The Movie Thread

[Applejack1973]

http://deadline.com/2015/07/the-visit-m-night-shyamalan-jason-blum-blumhouse-comic-con-1201473895/

 

[The Chairman Of The Board]

Well I just finished watching First Blood AKA Rambo 1 and it was really good I give it a 4 out of 5 stars. Only 4 instead of 5 because there are some unanswered questions left at the end of the movie. I know they are answered in Rambo 2 but I have the same problem with the upcoming Avengers movies. You shouldn't make a movie that's a 2 parter. I don't want to have to wait a year for part 2.

[Monkey Destruction Switch]

Last night, I watched War Room, the latest Christian film by the extremely-beloved-by-conservative-Christians Kendrick Brothers. I'm a conservative Christian myself and so I thought it generally had a good message, but the writing was frankly really bad, and the acting mediocre. And while the message was generally good, overall the movie was quite simplistic and not very deep, and at times even the message felt a little goofy (e.g. it gave me a sort of "if you pray enough, you just won't care about bad things happening to you or try to deal with them" sort of vibe). Still, it's easily millions of times better than God's Not Dead, so there's that.

[Yoko/葉子]

Likely too old for most people here, but has anyone seen the 1934 Death Takes a Holiday?

It was the movie that Meet Joe Black was loosely based on (though to be fair, this movie is based on a play of the same name). Basically, if you ever wondered how Death could be portrayed as naive, but funny, it might be interesting. Basically, he took 3 days off to learn why people fear him. There are some serious moments, but in some, it sounds like Death does not realize he made a joke.

So I saw the old Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and even by the standards of that time, the saucers looked a bit too goofy to take seriously. Don't get me wrong, some special effects from the old days are still impressive, but that was too silly for the intended tone. My mother, who was young when it came out was laughing at it.

Edited August 31, 2015 by Lime/Parvati-Pai/Key

[Monkey Destruction Switch]

Oh yeah, speaking of old movies, I actually watched an old Hopalong Cassidy western from 1943, Bar 20, yesterday. Probably the only time I've ever watched two movies in one day!

Why did I watch it? One reason and one reason only: George Reeves, aka my favorite Clark Kent/Superman, was an actor in it. He played one of "Hoppy's" two sidekicks. As you might be able to guess from my avatar and signature, I love George Reeves. (Like, a lot.) It was great seeing him, especially as a younger man - he was the oldest actor to play Superman, and it kind of shows in the later seasons. His hair starting graying and thinning at a young age, so he eventually had to dye it to play the Man of Steel. Enough random trivia - the movie turned out to be pretty enjoyable on the whole. And I've never really had any particular interest in westerns! It probably helped that, at just under an hour, it wasn't a significant time investment or anything. There was some great humor and I liked the characters, and something about the general "old movie" feel was so charming.

I would like to watch more old movies in the future. Especially ones with George Reeves in them x3

[Yoko/葉子]

Hopefully this will cause a laugh: A few weeks ago, I asked a local gaming meet up group if we should have "watch a bad video game-based movie," night. There were a few people demanding Super Mario Bros. as a result.

Anyways, (besides me) did anyone else know that Godzilla vs. Biollante is out on DVD/blu-ray officially in North America now? I saw it. I personally felt that how Biollante herself was formed from her father's dead daughter skin samples, rose cells and Godzilla cells to be on the twisted side and this is coming from someone that usually loves creepy and psychologically scary things. At least on the blu-ray, the deleted scenes are in as extras. As for effects..., holy daughter of Angrboda, Biollante's vines looked so real and alive that it was genuinely unsettling. The making of video revealed that she was just a big prop instead of someone in a suit the whole time with her vines controlled by wires.

[The Chairman Of The Board]

Hopefully this will cause a laugh: A few weeks ago, I asked a local gaming meet up group if we should have "watch a bad video game-based movie," night. There were a few people demanding Super Mario Bros. as a result.

I saw it once like 3 years ago and (I'm ready for the angry mob) I liked it.

[The Chairman Of The Board]

Well I just finished watching "From Russia With Love" and it was fantastic I give it a 5 out of 5 stars. I think the special effects are fantastic especially for 1963. The fight scenes are also amazing. I especially like the fight scene on the train between Bond and the russian spy. I highly recommend it to anyone especially fans of action movies. I can see why Sean Connery said it is his personal favorite Bond movie he did.

[Applejack1973]

 

Don’t answer the door because it’s RLJ Entertainment with another Halloween-themed horror anthology.

On DVD and digital platforms December 1st, 2015,

[Mania Pipe]

I actually got to sit down to watch The Secret of Nimh a while ago; it was quite a fantastic movie and it was loads of fun to watch too. I was quite surprised by it too, I wasn't expecting that I was gonna really love it the way I do now but I actually did. I loved the story, characters, animation, atmosphere, the mysticism and the overall feel to the film. Mrs. Brisby had just became one of my overall favorite protagonists in animation films. After watching the film; I was literally kicking myself for not watching this film 10-15 years ago since I was crazy into animation films, especially Don Bluth films. But hey, at least I got to watch the film and that's what counts.

[Mando-Whirl-Wind]

Woah, we just got the Jungle book teaser trailer, they tried to go epic with it, and only teased at one of the songs(it does still have the songs), and we only got to hear Scarlet Johanson(I wanna hear Bill Murray Baloo darnit), but it looks pretty darned good, hard to believe that everything but Mowgli is CGI

 

also cast list for anyone interested

Neel Sethi as Mowgli
Emjay Anthony as Grey Brother
Bill Murray as Baloo
Ben Kingsley as Bagheera
Idris Elba as Shere Khan
Scarlett Johansson as Kaa
Christopher Walken as King Louie
Giancarlo Esposito as Akela
Lupita Nyong'o as Raksha
Ralph Ineson as Father Wolf

Edited September 15, 2015 by Mando

[KHCast]

Still a little off put and weirded out by them making Kaa female for some reason. Eh, either way, I'll likely treat this like I do every Disney live action adaption and just consider the real versions of these characters the original ones lol.

[Applejack1973]

The town of Daylight, Indiana, is a real place, although none of the movie was actually filmed there

During the filming of the scene wherein the CPS team busts into a rundown apartment to save a child with rabies, the neighbors actually believed it was real and called the SWAT team in on the filmmakers.

 

[AlphaRuby]

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/10/02/gran-turismo-movie-writers-revealed

The writers for the Gran Turismo film are Jon and Erich Hoeber, who's last attempt to write a movie based on something with no story was Battleship!

*sigh*

[Milo]

This is destined to bomb even harder than the NFS film adaptation. At least some of those games actually had a narrative, the GT games are pure driving simulators...

Edited October 5, 2015 by Gabe

[Applejack1973]

Edited October 5, 2015 by Applejack1973

[ElectricAngel]

I was going to make this a status but it seemed too long, so into the thread it goes!

I finally watched the first 2 Back to the Future films (yeah I know I'm late). Not the 3rd because it's getting late here. But I did enjoy them a lot. They've now become some of my all time favourite movies. But I don't know if I can call them as separate films. I mean, the trilogy is pretty much a massive continuous story. Anyway, I've heard some complaints about the 3rd, and considering I'm not a big fan of wild west themed stories, I'm not sure if I'll enjoy it. But hey, I'll save those judgements until tomorrow.  

[Applejack1973]

Cloud Atlas: choose your own adventure

The Enforcers pull Chang over on the transway and then escort him to a lower sub-stratum area, landing on the mid-tier of a building, where he ultimately eludes his assailants and destroys a gunship. "We modeled up lots of detail for our immediate buildings," says Dessero. "There were three views - the corkscrew view looking up, a view looking back at sub-stratum buildings. There was a set piece built and there were shots that happened around there. We set extended that. Then another view looking out. Any action shot on greenscreen had that entire city vista looking out."

 

[FantasticMrRobb]

My favorite movie of all time is Wreck-It Ralph, but I think that's just because Sonic is in it. c:

[Applejack1973]

Most of the effects was provided by ILM and the creation of the visual effects took 35 people altogether that included animators, computer scientist, technicians, and artist. It took ten months to produce, for a total of 25 man-years. And despite the large amount of time spent, the CGI sequence was only a total of five minutes on screen. But all this work was worth it because the visual effects team won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

 

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-05/when-marnie-was-there-boy-and-the-beast-laws-of-the-universe-submitted-for-animated-feature-oscar/.95051

Edited November 5, 2015 by Applejack1973

[Speederino]

So thanks to my film studies class I’m being introduced to more movies that are actually outside my incredibly large bubble of superhero movies, Star Wars, nerdy comedies, and Star Wars. In just one week alone I was exposed to two movies that I consider absolute gems, one of which I definitely wouldn’t have ever seen if not for this class.

The first one is…well…let’s just say I was a smidge late to this party.

I’m serious, I had never seen Nightmare Before Christmas before now. What can I say? For most of my life, my brother was the only person who ever introduced me to movies, and he doesn’t like Tim Burton so this one ended up flying past me. But I’m going to try and force him to watch this, because Nightmare is now easily one of my absolute favorite Disney movies (even though I’m kind of hesitant to truly call it a Disney movie since they distanced themselves until it became a massive hit).

The first time I watched it, I really liked it but I didn’t quite consider it a classic. But then a few days later I noticed I was still humming the songs and constantly thinking about the movie, so I gave it another go and most of my complaints dissolved away. I love everything about this movie. The story is charming, the music is phenomenal, and I can’t get enough of the character designs. It’s all so creative and unique. I’ve even bought the soundtrack, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I sing along with it while in my underwear, pretending I am in fact Jack Skellington with his skin back.

Now the second movie is a bit more obscure (outside of Europe, anyways) and really doesn’t seem like something that would appeal to me at all:

Hmmm. A black and white animated French movie with a poster like that? This is going to be one of those artsy-fartsy borefests for sure. Do not care at all- OH MY GOD, PASTA

How did you know I like pasta??? It’s like you know me-OH MY GOD, COULD IT BE???

B-b-butts? BUTTS? THIS MOVIE WAS MADE FOR ME!!!

In seriousness though, Persepolis is about a girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It’s based off of an autobiographical graphic novel (wow, never thought I’d use those three words together) that’s probably more famous since it’s actually read in schools. It’s sometimes dark, sometimes serious, but it’s also equally balanced with really good humor.

This movie is so GIF-fable and yet Google Images only brings back like a half page of real results. Wake up, internet.

I admit, humor aside I’m having a hard time figuring out why I adore this movie so much. Perhaps it’s the extremely appealing animation, maybe it’s the fact that we never ever see a movie about Iran in western culture that doesn’t paint the whole country as a bunch of crazed suicide bombers, maybe it’s that I find myself really, really relating to and loving the main character, which is an awkward thing to say considering she’s an actual real woman who is old enough to be my mom. So instead I will say that I love this ANIMATED, FICTIONALIZED version of her, that way if she for some reason is browsing a Sonic the Hedgehog forum and sees this post, it will be slightly less awkward for the both of us. Why don’t you ever respond to my fan-mail, Marjane? I seal my love inside each envelope but you never write back.

Look, all I know is that I absolutely adore everything about this movie. The closest thing I have to a complaint is that it felt way longer than it actually was (hour and a half) but since I loved every minute of it why should I give a fuck? (Also in hindsight, now that I've read the book I think some scenes lack context but I didn't know the difference beforehand anyways so I don't think it matters) If you do watch it, I recommend sticking with the default language settings of French with English subtitles, at least on your first watch. It’s not that the English dub is bad or anything, it’s just that the movie is SUPPOSED to feel foreign (unless you’re French, obviously) and French does make sense here since the characters actually are speaking it for a good chunk of the movie (it doesn’t all take place in Iran). Plus there’s a scene later on involving actual English that I think loses its charm when you’ve been hearing the whole movie in English anyways, nor does it work as well. Also why the fuck is Iggy Pop in the English dub?

So yeah, fantastic movie, please watch it. Even if you don’t fall in love with it, you might actually learn stuff about the Middle East that ISN’T about terrorism, which I think is pretty damn valuable these days.

Also fun fact I'm supposed to be doing homework right now and I wrote this post instead. And now it's 2AM. Do I get an internet high-five, anyone?

 

[Johnny Boy]

If this doesn't show how much the Ice Age series has jumped the shark then I don't know what will.

[PSI Wind]

If this doesn't show how much the Ice Age series has jumped the shark then I don't know what will.

The Scrat animation shorts are pretty harmless to me. I like that it's done with little to no voices.

 

.........Wait, I'm sorry but this is actually a PREQUEL to the next film? The fuck!?

Edited November 12, 2015 by PSI Wind

[Johnny Boy]

The Scrat animation shorts are pretty harmless to me. I like that it's done with little to no voices.

 

.........Wait, I'm sorry but this is actually a PREQUEL to the next film? The fuck!?

Indeed. The next film is gonna be about the herd trying to stop a meteor from hitting the planet. Just what in the actual fuck?

[Applejack1973]

 

Edited November 24, 2015 by Applejack1973