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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on May 8, 2019 8:48:45 GMT -5
It's actually nothing like the 1972 film. 2002 Solaris moves slow in the sense that a lot of the scenes have prolonged pauses between lines of dialogue. But the actual plot moves forward a lot faster. I think Clooney is on the space station at about...the 10 minute mark? If 2002 Solaris moves at a snail's pace, 1972 Solaris moves backwards.
So IDK how much you'd enjoy 2002 if you like the 1972 movie, since I really hated that one, but it has a pretty solid reputation and takes it in a whole different direction, so it's worth watching I think. It has a lot of scenes that are flashbacks of sorts to Clooney's time on earth with his wife. Plus, if you don't like it, you would've only wasted about half of the time that watching the 1972 one takes.
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Post by windfisch on May 8, 2019 10:00:34 GMT -5
It's actually nothing like the 1972 film. 2002 Solaris moves slow in the sense that a lot of the scenes have prolonged pauses between lines of dialogue. But the actual plot moves forward a lot faster. I think Clooney is on the space station at about...the 10 minute mark? If 2002 Solaris moves at a snail's pace, 1972 Solaris moves backwards. So IDK how much you'd enjoy 2002 if you like the 1972 movie, since I really hated that one, but it has a pretty solid reputation and takes it in a whole different direction, so it's worth watching I think. It has a lot of scenes that are flashbacks of sorts to Clooney's time on earth with his wife. Plus, if you don't like it, you would've only wasted about half of the time that watching the 1972 one takes. Tarkovsky's movies are certainly not always "entertaining", not something I'd watch after a long, stressful day. And I remember Solaris having moments I endured rather than enjoyed. But in the end it felt worth it, kinda like after a work out session. His movies challenge my mind in ways most recent fims can't.
The trailers and clips I've seen of Soderberg's version seemed sterile and bland in comparison, which is why I've never really had the urge to watch it.
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Post by Snake on May 8, 2019 17:48:27 GMT -5
The 5 Venoms/ 5 Deadly Venoms
Classic movie, the kind I can watch repeatedly like Commando or Predator. While the martial arts choreography isn't particularly superb, it is still fun in keeping with the idea of 5 different poison clan animal styles (Centipede, Snake/Cobra, Scorpion, Lizard, and Toad). I really like how the movie tells a story of 5 men + 1, who are trying to discover each other's identities. A story of corruption, where greed becomes the downfall, leading to infighting and death. Comraderie becomes the positive theme. And after all this time, I just realized, I'm not even sure there is even one female character in the whole movie. I usually don't go for English dubs, but the one for this movie is quite superb.
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Post by kaoru on May 9, 2019 1:23:19 GMT -5
On my road to Endgame, I watched Doctor Strange. It was Ok but little else. One of the more generic MCU movies, which is weird considering about who it is. The effects in the parallel dimension or when they "fold" the world are cool and interesting to look at, but the rest of the movie is a surprisingly pedestrian origins story. You could even say said folding effects aren't particularly creative, since they are basically what Inception did but going a bit further. Cumberbatch as the lead could also not carry the movie in my eyes, which again is strange, because Peter Strange isn't very different from Sherlock, and Cumberbatch is doing well in that role. Maybe the dynamic with Watson actually benefits him in the show, there's nothing similar in Doctor Strange and I'd even go so far to say his character has no chemistry with anyone else in it at all.
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Post by Woody Alien on May 12, 2019 4:23:28 GMT -5
On my road to Endgame, I watched Doctor Strange. It was Ok but little else. One of the more generic MCU movies, which is weird considering about who it is. The effects in the parallel dimension or when they "fold" the world are cool and interesting to look at, but the rest of the movie is a surprisingly pedestrian origins story. You could even say said folding effects aren't particularly creative, since they are basically what Inception did but going a bit further. Cumberbatch as the lead could also not carry the movie in my eyes, which again is strange, because Peter Strange isn't very different from Sherlock, and Cumberbatch is doing well in that role. Maybe the dynamic with Watson actually benefits him in the show, there's nothing similar in Doctor Strange and I'd even go so far to say his character has no chemistry with anyone else in it at all. I enjoyed it while watching it at the theater when it came out, however I can agree that, as someone joked, Cumberbatch had more chemistry with his CG cape than the other real actors. I feel that the other major characters i.e. Wong, bad guy Kaecilius and The Ancient One AKA One Punch Tilda were very bland and one-dimensional so there's not much that Cumberbatch could have done.
As for me I finally watched Saturday Night Fever. Many people seem to think it's some sort of dance-themed comedy, but it's actually a drama that paints a pretty harsh view of blue-collar youth in 1970s New York, what with racism, uneducated families, dead-end jobs and so on. It's almost depressing at times. I enjoyed it all the same.
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Post by Woody Alien on May 18, 2019 14:35:26 GMT -5
Saw Detective Pikachu. It was better than it had any right to be!
I mean, the CG and special effects were very good, the plot simple but tight, the humor funny, the many references (not only to all aspects of the Pokémon world, but also to other films) never felt forced, the characters mostly believeable and in general I felt very satisfied when it ended, since I had basically zero expectations for it. Even the ending credits with Ken Sugimori's designs were great!
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Post by kaoru on May 20, 2019 2:09:12 GMT -5
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 and Spider Man: Homecoming. I liked GotG2 quite a lot, I think my favorite trash people's movies are probably the most entertaining ones in the MCU. It got a bit forced in the character interactions towards the middle, so it could funnel towards a climax, but otherwise I fully enjoyed it. Homecoming on the other hand was a mixed bag for me. Tom Holland is super adorable and once again shows how impecible a lot of these MCU-roles are cast, since he makes for the perfect Spider Man... but while the Spider Man parts of the movie were fun, the Peter Parker parts I just did not care about. But I guess it is also at a weird place, since it is not technically an origins story (thankfully, we had way too many of them) but since it is his first stand alone one, it still goes through a lot of the same beats anyways.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on May 20, 2019 6:36:22 GMT -5
I saw Detective Pikachu too a couple nights back.
It's definitely a good video game movie, which is enough of an accomplishment, to be honest. Other than that, it's mostly fun because of the fan service. It's not great plot-wise, writing-wise (no, not even really Pikachu's quips), acting-wise or even CG-wise. But it's good enough for 90 minutes of live action Pokémon walking around. And it's cool that they stuck to the designs pretty closely. Although for certain cutey Pokémon that doesn't really work.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on May 24, 2019 13:05:38 GMT -5
I saw John Wick Chapter 3 in theatres. But not after watching John Wick Chapter 2 the same day and John Wick 1 the day before. So, lots of John Wick in a short time span.
They're quite different from what I expected. The first one's more or less straightforward, but 2 and 3 have so much more lore for what appears at first glance to just be a simple action series. It gets progressively more crazy and violent with each installment, so I'm curious where they'll take part 4. I can hardly imagine they'll tone it down all of a sudden.
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Post by kaoru on May 29, 2019 1:21:04 GMT -5
Short break from the MCU and instead going into the MonsterVerse, I watched Kong: Skull Island. Entertaining monster movie. I liked that it is simple and straight forward, being over in 2 hours instead of stretched out too long, with enough going on and some very anti-war-movie like cinematography.
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Post by Woody Alien on Jun 11, 2019 8:27:11 GMT -5
Short break from the MCU and instead going into the MonsterVerse, I watched Kong: Skull Island. Entertaining monster movie. I liked that it is simple and straight forward, being over in 2 hours instead of stretched out too long, with enough going on and some very anti-war-movie like cinematography. I saw Godzilla King of the Monsters instead in the theater. Big dumb chaotic fun! The plot and human characters were dumb and nonsensical, but who cares when you get exactly the destructive spectacle you were waiting for? I prefer this approach than the one of the predecessor Godzilla 2014, it wanted to be somewhat of an author movie but it was slow and plodding at times with uninteresting character drama and too many allusions to natural and man-made disasters of the past decade.
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Post by lurker on Jun 11, 2019 8:55:07 GMT -5
Short break from the MCU and instead going into the MonsterVerse, I watched Kong: Skull Island. Entertaining monster movie. I liked that it is simple and straight forward, being over in 2 hours instead of stretched out too long, with enough going on and some very anti-war-movie like cinematography. I saw Godzilla King of the Monsters instead in the theater. Big dumb chaotic fun! The plot and human characters were dumb and nonsensical, but who cares when you get exactly the destructive spectacle you were waiting for? I prefer this approach than the one of the predecessor Godzilla 2014, it wanted to be somewhat of an author movie but it was slow and plodding at times with uninteresting character drama and too many allusions to natural and man-made disasters of the past decade.
I enjoyed the '14 mainly because of the low expectations I had. I just wanted it to be better than the 98 one. Also, I thought the Jaws approach was interesting. I though the monsters were neat in that, too.
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Post by Woody Alien on Jun 11, 2019 9:11:34 GMT -5
I enjoyed the '14 mainly because of the low expectations I had. I just wanted it to be better than the 98 one. Also, I thought the Jaws approach was interesting. I though the monsters were neat in that, too. It wasn't bad but I don't think it was a wise choice to waste great actors like Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche and put the whole movie on the shoulders of the inexpressive Kick-Ass dude. Cinematography and set design were quite good, but it wasn't all that engaging. (I never watched the 1998 film since everyone said it sucked) It's not that I disliked because it was slow: I saw Shin Godzilla as well and, despite half of it being set in offices and halls, I liked it quite a lot as a satire of bureaucracy against something out of the ordinary. Also finally depicted a radioactive mutant as something, well, mutating and truly disturbing. It helped that I generally like Hideaki Anno and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
(I'm not a Godzilla expert by any means, just saw the most recent ones. Any recommendations for the older ones besides the original?)
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Post by lurker on Jun 11, 2019 9:23:31 GMT -5
I enjoyed the '14 mainly because of the low expectations I had. I just wanted it to be better than the 98 one. Also, I thought the Jaws approach was interesting. I though the monsters were neat in that, too. It wasn't bad but I don't think it was a wise choice to waste great actors like Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche and put the whole movie on the shoulders of the inexpressive Kick-Ass dude. Cinematography and set design were quite good, but it wasn't all that engaging. (I never watched the 1998 film since everyone said it sucked) It's not that I disliked because it was slow: I saw Shin Godzilla as well and, despite half of it being set in offices and halls, I liked it quite a lot as a satire of bureaucracy against something out of the ordinary. Also finally depicted a radioactive mutant as something, well, mutating and truly disturbing. It helped that I generally like Hideaki Anno and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
(I'm not a Godzilla expert by any means, just saw the most recent ones. Any recommendations for the older ones besides the original?)
Not really. I kinda like Vs Mechagodzilla (the first one, mainly for King Caesar) and Vs Biollante (because Biollante is neat). Vs MechaGodzilla is also interesting because the evil aliens are inspired by a certain Charlton Heston movie.
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Post by toei on Jun 11, 2019 14:30:20 GMT -5
Woody Alien Godzilla 1984 is pretty good. Just be aware that the American version adds some pointless scenes with american actors, but you can find the Japanese version with subs. It basically ignores every other sequel and follows the original movie directly, once again treating Godzilla as a large-scale disaster. The human characters are all pretty decent, and the budget is respectable for the time. I'd say it's worth watching.
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