If I put movie titles in quotations marks, or italics, would people prefer that? What's CP's house style for proper titles?
Look, all sarcasm aside, I get that I talk about, and am interested in, film in a way alot of people aren't. They just want to watch a good movie, they're not thinking about what it says about culture that made it, what it's responding too, etc. Is the answer for me to create a 'cinephiles only' version of this thread? Or like can you just ignore how I engage with film and move on?
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I can't remember who recommended Cop Land, but I watched it yesterday and thought it was great. Stallone gives one of his best performances and James Mangold again gives us a modern film with a western twist to it.
Really enjoyed Air. It's obviously hard to build tension when everybody knows the success story behind Nike, the Air Jordan brand, or at the very least MJ himself. But it was impressive how they were still able to pull off an engaging and funny movie.
There was a hilarious line about Barkley
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and how nobody would want to watch him on TV. Of course he went on to become one of the most beloved NBA analysts.
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Loved Spider-Man. Am I the only one who didn’t know
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That it’s two parts? About 2/3 of the way thru it occurred to me they should end it on a cliffhanger and how ballsy that would be if it was totally unexpected. And it was for me. Was this public knowledge? I may have just been out of the loop on this one.
Loved Spider-Man. Am I the only one who didn’t know
Spoiler!
That it’s two parts? About 2/3 of the way thru it occurred to me they should end it on a cliffhanger and how ballsy that would be if it was totally unexpected. And it was for me. Was this public knowledge? I may have just been out of the loop on this one.
Yeah I didn’t know either. I loved being surprised though. I was purposely avoiding spoilers and trailers though so I’m not sure.
Really enjoyed Air. It's obviously hard to build tension when everybody knows the success story behind Nike, the Air Jordan brand, or at the very least MJ himself. But it was impressive how they were still able to pull off an engaging and funny movie.
There was a hilarious line about Barkley
Spoiler!
and how nobody would want to watch him on TV. Of course he went on to become one of the most beloved NBA analysts.
Entertaining movie. My only issue is the story is pretty far from what actually happened.
Loved Spider-Man. Am I the only one who didn’t know
Spoiler!
That it’s two parts? About 2/3 of the way thru it occurred to me they should end it on a cliffhanger and how ballsy that would be if it was totally unexpected. And it was for me. Was this public knowledge? I may have just been out of the loop on this one.
I'm pretty sure it was announced as a Part I from the hop. But it looks like the Part 1 was dropped from the marketing when they have the third movie a distinct title.
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In December, Lord and Miller revealed that the film was being split into two parts: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) and (Part Two), because they had written the story they wanted to tell for the sequel and realized it was too much for one film. Work on both parts was taking place simultaneously.[44] The sequels were renamed in April 2022, becoming Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Their release dates were shifted then, with Across the Spider-Verse pushed back to June 2, 2023.[14][45][46
I watched Blackberry on the weekend at the Plaza in Inglewood Kensington .
The movie was really good! Like better than I expected. The cast was great, it was funnier than expected. I would highly recommend. I actually had no idea that it was a Canadian made movie (duh).
Also, would recommend watching a movie at the plaza. It's old school with modern elements (and a cocktail bar). Don't go there for a blockbuster, but a movie like this is perfect.
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be a cliffhanger until it became apparent (when his mom indicates she doesn't know who spider-man is) that Miles had not been sent back to his reality but to a different one. Prior to that I figured he'd go back and have his showdown with the Spot so there was closure to this chapter, but it would still set up for a further sequel.
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Another mouldy goldie - watched the 1979 version of Dracula over the weekend, starring Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence. This Dracula is more about romance than horror, so it doesn't have the impact of the original or the Hammer films. Still worth a watch though - good cast, well directed and featuring a John Williams soundtrack.
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Spider-Man was great but too long -- at 2 hour and 16 minutes it's a tough one for kids to make it through, my oldest was sound asleep in the theatre by the end. A lot of it felt very visually overwhelming too -- they took the art style of the first one and cranked it up to 11 almost the point of feeling overdone.
I also kinda wish a movie I'd see would just have a nice normal ending -- two in a row now (Spider-Man and Fast X) just kinda dropping off in the middle of climactic scenes to set up their part 2. Spider-Man isn't too bad because the next one is due out in March I think, but I don't think Fast XI is even filming yet. Not that I care about the story that much, but still.
Next up will be Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, destined to end in another cliffhanger...
I like that they cracked jokes at the franchise in X. Called the family a weird cult. I bet Diesel pushed back on that, the franchise is his oscar bait baby.
I already can't even remember the cliffhanger. Also you can take it to the bank that no one will die definitively. They just take turns fake-dying and getting resurrected 1-2 films later. And each time equally is as shocking as the last.
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