Super Sweet Movie Discussion Thread

AWP said:
The MCU has a few flaws, internal and external. There's a certain amount of saturation given that we used to have 2-3 movies a year? With Endgame, Downey's "death", no Captain America, no Black Widow (and whoever else is gone) material for the storyline plus Wakanda living forever, but not Boseman, that's slowed things down.

Roll your eyes, but societal changes have screwed with things. I have the impression that Feige's carefully crafted narrative found itself contending with MeToo and other "SJW" causes or whatever. Forcing "girl power", anti-colonial Black nationalism, and whatever else into scripts changed the tone of some movies IMO. It may have even changed a plot or two, nothing would surprise me.

The movies are also out of order or took WAAAAYYYYYY to long to make, produce, and release. The Black Widow movie was about 5 years too late, maybe more. The unknown virus of unknown origin as mentioned above trashed shooting and release timelines, which slowed the release of new movies. You have beloved characters gone with the round 2 characters coming a bit too far behind to take advantage of the momentum. Some stories are streaming only, but the movies build off of those streaming-only moments... They have given themselves a self-perpetuating cycle of mediocrity even with the unknown virus of unknown origin behind us...wait, MONKEYpox? For fucking real? Anyway...

A saturated market, popular characters gone, new characters are unknown and suddenly thrown into the fray, missed timelines, society having an ADHD "squirrel" moment...of course the MCU is looking rough right now.

Still better than DC's 32 Batmen, 21 Jokers, whateverthefuck happened to Harley Quinn, the Suicide Squads, eleventy5 trivial superhero characters dumped into a movie (Sharkman or something? LOL, wut), ensemble casts with absolutely no backstory, the Flash in jail, Heard in court, and Wonder Woman 1984's "whattheshit" plotholes.

But if you can get ScarJo and Gal into a kiddie pool full of Jello, holla' at ya' boy. That's the superhero crossover we deserve. Throw in special guest referee Scarlet Witch and I'll forget about the Loki series.
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Apparently the SJW/MeToo/BLM/LGBQT garbage is pretty well infused into the comic books (graphic novels, whatever they want to be called these days), so trying to walk that line between Marvel and movie, I guess.

My 17 year-old son said this about the latest Dr. Strange movie: "I went in looking for sorcery and magic and I got space gays."
 
Very good Jackie Chan movie on Netflix called The Foreigner. It was directed by Martin Campbell (who did Casino Royale) and stars Pierce Brosnan as a former IRA gunman-turned-crooked politician. Intelligent and intricate plot, great action sequences. If you haven't seen it yet it's worth your time.
 
Watched Memory and loved it. There Isn't a Liam Neeson film I won't watch and this one didnt let me down. It could be called "Taken 16".

Monica Bellucci didnt age well though. Lol

O_o
 
Where the hell would television be on Memorial Day without WW2? This weekend I've watched Battleground, Destination Tokyo, The Steel Helmet, Pork Chop Hill.

My old man's favorite WW2 movie was The Enemy Below with Robert Mitchum. Great movie. Kurt Jurgens played the U-Boat captain. Dad used to quote him all the time: "Ve build zem goot in Germany, eh Heinie?"
 
Watch hustle on Netflix. It’ll make you like humanity again. Adam Sandler is really trying to earn that Oscar nod and be deserves it. And the Queen can still get if after 50. Great fucking movie. Last scene will make a man tear up like it’s rocky or saving private Ryan.
 

Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
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Guy and Jason link up again and this time sprinkle on some Aubrey....yeah I'm in!!!!!

:ninja::thumbsup::ROFLMAO:
 
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I just saw the last James Bond movie, No Time To Die. As an overall Bond movie it was average, but the last 10 minutes I ugly cried. Damn. Can't believe how it ended.

I'm a huge James Bond fan, I've seen every movie several times. I am left empty, I have no idea what they're going to do for the next one.
 
Devildoc said:
I just saw the last James Bond movie, No Time To Die. As an overall Bond movie it was average, but the last 10 minutes I ugly cried. Damn. Can't believe how it ended.

I'm a huge James Bond fan, I've seen every movie several times. I am left empty, I have no idea what they're going to do for the next one.
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Totally agree. But I'm still in denial. Its james Bond and it just can't be. Waiting to see what happens.....
 
Dune 8.5/10 have really appreciated the scale that they did in this. Very true to the book and the original film. Was a bit of let down where it ended, was flying while watching it. But part 2 comes in November so all good!

The Northman 7.5/10. So because your king didn't lay with you the night he came home you had his brother kill him right after he made your son his heir? Sorry Nicole, but you earned that. Kinda sucks homie didn't live. That was intense.

The Contractor 6.5/10 started kinda sappy, he got kicked out for steroids? Then his pmc was gonna whack him? Is there any foundation like this in real life? Quite believable in some sense, especially going after the asshole that chose to whack you. Movie picked up quite a bit in the middle to end, beginning could have been flushed out a bit more.
 
Saw Jordan Peeles new movie “Nope” last night. I enjoyed it, but be warned, it’s much less of a horror movie than it is a commentary on the movie industry in my opinion. If you’re just looking for a nonsense summer movie, I’d give it a pass.
 
Stretcher Jockey said:
Saw Jordan Peeles new movie “Nope” last night. I enjoyed it, but be warned, it’s much less of a horror movie than it is a commentary on the movie industry in my opinion. If you’re just looking for a nonsense summer movie, I’d give it a pass.
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That appears to be a reoccurring theme with his movies.

I never understood the hype around Get Out, it was much less of a horror movie and more of his personal commentary on veiled racism.
 
Ooh-Rah said:
That appears to be a reoccurring theme with his movies.

I never understood the hype around Get Out, it was much less of a horror movie and more of his personal commentary on veiled racism.
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I enjoyed Get Out because it had a well thought out and unique story to tell with great acting and cool cinematography. Personally I can be a fan of movies if they have those elements even if I don’t care for the subject material itself.

But yeah regardless, his movie are not for everyone and I expect Nope to do much worse in the box office than his previous 2 films.
 

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