Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Cappy

Kids always ruin movies. Perfect way for writers to put the characters in a situation is to have dumb kids do it.

I re-watched 28 days and 28 weeks this weekend (still havent seen 28 years) and the crux of 28 weeks later is kids doing stupid stuff

Theres been some decent kid actors lately, and thats fine, and frankly, its not even that the kid did a terrible job but...the story-arc was just stupid.

Spoiler!

Your mom is dying, your dad is taking care of her but also finding comfort elsewhere. Fine. "But me mam tho!!" So stupid.

Then they set up the supplies for the community and how they're scarce. Of course they are, its a Zombie Apocalypse.

If supplies are scarce, she is bed-ridden and useless you dont use those supplies on her, you put an arrow through her and move along.

Then they set up that there is 'a real Doctor' on the heavily infested mainland and Dad is a dick because he wont take 'me mam' to see 'da real doctah!!' Whom, by all accounts, is a psychotic loner lunatic. So kiddo lights the community's supplies on fire as a diversion and escapes with her to go find the real Doctor? He's been on the mainland exactly once. 1 time. And he failed pretty hard. Now he has to drag some lunatic woman around to find the crazy Doctor based on almost absolutely no real information.

And the whole thing turns to ####. Surprise, surprise. I was really let down by this one.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Dion

Jurassic Park - Rebirth was a total bust. Nothing earth shattering in it worth talking about. Just a plot a grade school kid could come up with. Too simple and and boring. Worst of the Jurassic Park movies.

I saw Jurassic World - Rebirth and while it was lacking I didn't think it was the worst of the Jurassic series.

[Looch City]

I saw Superman and Fantastic Four this past week.

F4 was a way better movie overall. I still liked Superman but it was too...cheesy? Some of the CGI in the last third wasn't doing it for me.

Oddly enough, F4 seemed more like a Gunn movie than Superman imo.

[fotze2]

Just watched long legs. No one warned me what a bizarre movie it is. Loved it. It’s silence of the lambs on acid and mush. It’s not a horror. A thriller.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Enjoyed F4. Retro futuristic vibe worked. Characters had great chemistry. It wasn’t nearly as much of a lead in that I’d been lead to believe. It stands alone but opens up possibilities for Doomsday and Secret Wars. Felt very much like a comic book movie, in a good way. It had less action than most CBMs but enough to keep me entertained. Felt more like Dr Strange in terms of action. The action it did have was well done. Casting was great and I love Pedro Pascal but he’ll never be a great Reed to me. Good enough though.

Enjoyed it more than Thunderbolts or Brave New World. But didn’t quite do enough to bring it to that next level. Comedic parts were a bit hit and miss. Hit more than it missed though. F4 were very charming.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Just watched long legs. No one warned me what a bizarre movie it is. Loved it. It’s silence of the lambs on acid and mush. It’s not a horror. A thriller.

I went into it cold, just thinking it was gonna be a grim detective thriller along the lines of Silence of the Lambs or Seven. The supernatural stuff took me by surprise and gave it kind of an X-Files vibe. I liked it.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Buff

I saw Jurassic World - Rebirth and while it was lacking I didn't think it was the worst of the Jurassic series.

Not the worst! High praise.

[fotze2]

Saw naked Gun. God I wanted to love it but a lot of jokes fell flat. Liam fine and Pamela too, just 2.5 seashells out of five. A fine on a long flight movie.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

People shelling out money for predictably terrible legacy sequels even in the face of poor review scores are contributing to why these are still getting greenlit and pumped out without proper care or love in the first place.

Just stop.

If it looks like a flight flick or what straight to DVD movies used to be, use the seven seas. That's what that quality of production and writing deserves.

Happy Gilmour 2 also looks like one of those.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

People shelling out money for predictably terrible legacy sequels even in the face of poor review scores are contributing to why these are still getting greenlit and pumped out without proper care or love in the first place.

Just stop.

If it looks like a flight flick or what straight to DVD movies used to be, use the seven seas. That's what that quality of production and writing deserves.

Happy Gilmour 2 also looks like one of those.

Thats why Top Gun 2 is so overrated. Sure the special effects were great but that storyline was for simpletons. Goose's son singing Great Balls for Fire in a bar.... hahaha

[troutman]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Saw naked Gun. God I wanted to love it but a lot of jokes fell flat. Liam fine and Pamela too, just 2.5 seashells out of five. A fine on a long flight movie.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

People shelling out money for predictably terrible legacy sequels even in the face of poor review scores are contributing to why these are still getting greenlit and pumped out without proper care or love in the first place.

Just stop.

If it looks like a flight flick or what straight to DVD movies used to be, use the seven seas. That's what that quality of production and writing deserves.

Happy Gilmour 2 also looks like one of those.

Go fata your own face.

Some of us don’t live our life on some comic book guy attitude . Feel
Like seeing a movie so I picked this one. More people
Like you need to be wiped off this planet.

[Fuzz]

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

People shelling out money for predictably terrible legacy sequels even in the face of poor review scores are contributing to why these are still getting greenlit and pumped out without proper care or love in the first place.

Just stop.

Both Naked Gun and Happy Gilmore are getting solid reviews from critics as well as fans. Personally I enjoyed both. Legacy sequels can be a lot of fun if they’re done right, and there have been several good ones in recent years. The two most recent Mad Max movies come to mind. Scream, Top Gun Maverick, and the new Ghostbusters movies were also quite enjoyable IMO.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Go fata your own face.

Did you just unknowingly quote Les Grossman?

Embarrassing emotional outburst aside, I am amused by that.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Both Naked Gun and Happy Gilmore are getting solid reviews from critics as well as fans. Personally I enjoyed both. Legacy sequels can be a lot of fun if they’re done right, and there have been several good ones in recent years. The two most recent Mad Max movies come to mind. Scream, Top Gun Maverick, and the new Ghostbusters movies were also quite enjoyable IMO.

Yeah, it's general statement based on what that one poster said in response to Naked Gun (which apparently is fresh as well.. interesting)

Some are great, yes. It's the half-arsed cash grabs that we shouldn't reward with our hard earned money and encourage more of.

I did like some of the ones you listed.

The issue with trying to discourage those garbage efforts is there's a growing segment of the population that has no bar for what they'll invest time into watching. It can be the most cliche-riddled, bottom of the barrel, studio expedited piece of crap and they'll still gobble it up because it came up under the new arrivals and has a recognizable title or cast.

And that's fine, you have free will at the end of the day. But let's remember that what people say yes to and give viewership numbers and streams to is what the studios will look at and pump out more of, over other things like original screenplays instead of the seventh sequel to a tired franchise (thank god for studios like A24 for doing god's work in this regard).

A segment of reviewers have also dropped their bars for what they'll give a fresh rating to and a lot of it is due to getting invited to advanced screenings and special events for being shills for these distributors, and retaining that sense of prestige in their community for getting in on those.

All in all, the brainrot type of consumption that more and more people are falling victim to (and it's not kyiting on people, we're all being slowly turned/conditioned into media consuming zombies on the whole as a culture to some degree) that's steering the overall industry into a cheap sequelverse because we keep rewarding crap while edging out talent and originality in favor of more remakes, reboots, prequels and sequels of already known quantities.

And only we as the consumers have the power to change that for the better.

Anyways, yeah. That's my TED talk for the evening.

[Mightyfire89]

Watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang yesterday for the first time. How have I never watched this movie? Really enjoyable. Not an all-timer but a good movie. Maybe 7.5 out of 10. Robert Downey Jr is great in it.

[Mightyfire89]

On that note…Why has there never been a movie with James Spader, Robert Downey Jr, Eric Stoltz and John Cusack? Whatever the script is, I would watch it.

[Fuzz]

Your Ted talk sucks.

You may have had a point 10-15 years ago when people made the same argument, except it was actually valid then. That was back before we had a such a variety of viewing platforms and creators. Nowadays any cinematic itch you have can be scratched in multiple ways. Another lame superhero movie doesn't mean something I want to watch isn't getting made, like happened back then. A few months ago I watched Flow, made on open source software from a director in Latvia. It was great. Marvel Mega Action Smash Hit being made didn't mean Flow wasn't.

I don't even like Tom Cruise much, or sequels, but Top Gun 2 was fine. It was made for entertainment, people were entertained. Job done.

You seem shocked or disappointed people make horrible entertainment choices. Like, ya, people spend 8 hours a day watching Tic Tok. People are dumb. They voted Donald Trump, and you expect the vapid mass of humanity to guide entertainment direction? Why?

And yes, reviewers are bought and paid shills, welcome to 2025. This isn't limited to movies. So, uh, stop looking to them? That's a "you" issue.

Stop worrying about this stuff, people have always watched junk and continue to. But with all the ways films can be made today, it doesn't matter.

[Strange Brew]

I thought Fantastic 4 was excellent, one of my favorite movies in a while.

I loved that they decided to forego some of the typical superhero movies tropes. Ben Grimm broods about his physical appearance, Johnny Storm is the brash, egotistical hothead. I kind of enjoyed the very likeable characters and the family dynamic. And the scale of the villain was just right.

Sure some cheesy moments but it worked for me.