Time to start putting some new actors into these roles because the nostalgia well runs dry at some point.
If their best content in years is a movie where they are making fun of their content, it's probably a sign that the actual content isn't so great anymore.
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Nine Inch Nails will score the new Tron: Ares movie. The trailer/footage looks…interesting. Jered Leto is in it so that brings its own baggage. But it’ll sound ####ing awesome at least. Although I don’t know how you top what Daft Punk did.
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Yeah the first trailer made it look like a bit of a detective supernatural thriller. This "road" business super lame. So they're going to go along a road and stop at a bunch of houses etc.. that are references to literary witches. I'll give kudos for coming up with something that is custom built to be filmed in the Volume.
I love Hahn and Plaza so I'll give a look but mehhhhhhhh
Nine Inch Nails will score the new Tron: Ares movie. The trailer/footage looks…interesting. Jered Leto is in it so that brings its own baggage. But it’ll sound ####ing awesome at least. Although I don’t know how you top what Daft Punk did.
Well...I'm not a Daft Punk fan per se, but if theres one group that can do it? Its Nine Inch Nails.
Reznor knows what hes about.
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Tron: Legacy is one of the most underrated movies ever, I think. One of those visual / audio tour de forces and with a surprisingly interesting story too. Of course that's no guarantee the next one will be any good, but it'll at least get me in the theatre to find out.
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Tron: Legacy is one of the most underrated movies ever, I think. One of those visual / audio tour de forces and with a surprisingly interesting story too. Of course that's no guarantee the next one will be any good, but it'll at least get me in the theatre to find out.
Agreed. I never even saw the old one but was down for whatever Tron: Legacy had to offer right from the trailer. I think basically anyone that actually watched it liked it. Just wasn't the built in audience they thought they had. I think You'll see big love for a third one now that all us teenagers that loved Legacy are adults with money now.
Tron Legacy was one of the first blu-rays I ever bought, and the disc I showed off my then-impressive 55" 1080 TV to all my three friends and family who wanted to be wowed.
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ReWatched X2, man does this film hold up incredibly well. I remember being blown away watching it in theatres and every time I pop in the disk for a rewatch I enjoy it a little bit more. When I compare it to some of the comic book movies coming out recently it blows them out the water. Top 20 comic book movie of all time still 20 years later, this one is still one of the best.
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ReWatched X2, man does this film hold up incredibly well. I remember being blown away watching it in theatres and every time I pop in the disk for a rewatch I enjoy it a little bit more. When I compare it to some of the comic book movies coming out recently it blows them out the water. Top 20 comic book movie of all time still 20 years later, this one is still one of the best.
I'll say it again that Fox's X-Men didn't have the consistent "good or better" quality of the MCU (had). But looking at their offerings they have at least 3 of the best comic book movies ever in DOFP, X2 and First Class. Maybe 4 with the first X-Men.
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I'll say it again that Fox's X-Men didn't have the consistent "good or better" quality of the MCU (had). But looking at their offerings they have at least 3 of the best comic book movies ever in DOFP, X2 and First Class. Maybe 4 with the first X-Men.
I would also add Logan and Deadpool to that list.
If given a choice between watching the 7 best Fox X-Men movies or 7 best MCU films, I'm choosing X-Men
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X2 was my favourite comic book movie for the longest time. Loved that movie, and Cox as William Stryker remains one of the best performances from a movie villain. To me there is not much that doesn't work in that movie, the action scenes are remarkable (Nightcrawler and Wolverine's are the standouts). The "coming out" scene from Bobby Drake is also memorable.
I suppose the only drawback to all those movies is Bryan Singer's involvement. Even when they showed the reel at the end of Deadpool/Wolverine it was kind of icky seeing Singer's face. Sort of like watching anything with Kevin Spacey or produced by Weinstein. They all were involved with amazing movies, yet we don't want their works acknowledged.
I'll say it again that Fox's X-Men didn't have the consistent "good or better" quality of the MCU (had). But looking at their offerings they have at least 3 of the best comic book movies ever in DOFP, X2 and First Class. Maybe 4 with the first X-Men.
That film series was totally bipolar. How do you follow X-Men 2 up with a complete piece of trash in X-Men 3. At that point you know how to make a good movie....but just choose not to? Then you follow up DOFP....with Apocalypse.
Some of the best and some of the worst superhero movies.
If you exclude Apocalypse, you've actually got a pretty good run of films with:
First Class
The Wolverine
DoFP
Deadpool
Logan
Deadpool 2
Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix were so bad and forgettable that they really tarnish the legacy of the whole series. If both were even average, you have a run of 8 solid films in a row.
In unrelated news I see The Crow remake is still under review embargo despite being released tomorrow. Obviously not a good sign, and I expect the movie will bomb. That's probably a series they should have left buried ten feet under (right next to David Harbour's Hellboy).
I honestly don't hate Last Stand. Its not perfect and they try to cram way to much into its 1hr 45min runtime but I prefer it to SpiderMan 3. I think they never thought there would be another X-Men movie so they just crammed way too many ideas into it.
X2 was my favourite comic book movie for the longest time. Loved that movie, and Cox as William Stryker remains one of the best performances from a movie villain. To me there is not much that doesn't work in that movie, the action scenes are remarkable (Nightcrawler and Wolverine's are the standouts). The "coming out" scene from Bobby Drake is also memorable.
I suppose the only drawback to all those movies is Bryan Singer's involvement. Even when they showed the reel at the end of Deadpool/Wolverine it was kind of icky seeing Singer's face. Sort of like watching anything with Kevin Spacey or produced by Weinstein. They all were involved with amazing movies, yet we don't want their works acknowledged.
Yeah, Singer's involvement definitely taints them longterm. I enjoy watching behind the scene's stuff but seeing him pop up is a bad reminder of who made most of the good ones.
