The Official Movie Thread

[bustaheims]

We talking the sequel too then? Because isn't that one generally considered to have been quite the disappointing follow-up?

By some, yes. I happened to really enjoy it, but, it did suffer from many of the problems that plague comedy sequels.

 

[TML fan]

Star Trek Beyond was really good.

 

[Tigger]

Legend was pretty good, Tom Hardy brilliantly playing both the notorious Kray brothers. There's even a De Palma-esque steadicam shot of almost 6 minutes early on.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Legend was pretty good, Tom Hardy brilliantly playing both the notorious Kray brothers. There's even a De Palma-esque steadicam shot of almost 6 minutes early on.

I enjoyed it and I was surprised how good Hardy was, I know the source material very well and his portrayal of Ron was something to behold.

 

[Kin]

Legend was pretty good, Tom Hardy brilliantly playing both the notorious Kray brothers. There's even a De Palma-esque steadicam shot of almost 6 minutes early on.

Was that the fight scene in the Pub? I thought that was pretty great.

 

[Tigger]

Legend was pretty good, Tom Hardy brilliantly playing both the notorious Kray brothers. There's even a De Palma-esque steadicam shot of almost 6 minutes early on.

I enjoyed it and I was surprised how good Hardy was, I know the source material very well and his portrayal of Ron was something to behold.

I've been a fan of Hardy really since Bronson ( also Winding Refn, saw the 'Pusher' trilogy after that ), but even as young Picard in Nemesis too. I've seen the other movie about the gangsters, 'The Krays', but I don't really know that much about them past that.

 

[Tigger]

Legend was pretty good, Tom Hardy brilliantly playing both the notorious Kray brothers. There's even a De Palma-esque steadicam shot of almost 6 minutes early on.

Was that the fight scene in the Pub? I thought that was pretty great.

The one I'm thinking of was when he takes her out to his club for the first time, from the time they walk in the door to the time they kiss is one long fantastic take. Not sure about the fight seen, which was really good.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Legend was pretty good, Tom Hardy brilliantly playing both the notorious Kray brothers. There's even a De Palma-esque steadicam shot of almost 6 minutes early on.

I enjoyed it and I was surprised how good Hardy was, I know the source material very well and his portrayal of Ron was something to behold.

I've been a fan of Hardy really since Bronson ( also Winding Refn, saw the 'Pusher' trilogy after that ), but even as young Picard in Nemesis too. I've seen the other movie about the gangsters, 'The Krays', but I don't really know that much about them past that.

Yeah, I had a family member in Glasgow that had regular dealings with them and I would hear a lot of stories about their antics back in the day. I've read a lot of the books on them and watched most of the movies portraying them too.

Perhaps it was just me, but after a half hour or so, I was no longer really aware that it was Tom Hardy playing two roles, it was great.

 

[rdowdall]

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/suicide-squad-movie-review-w432204

Not a great start.

 

[herman]

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/suicide-squad-movie-review-w432204

Not a great start.

I haven't seen it myself yet.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/suicide-squads-secret-drama-rushed-916693

A source with knowledge of events says Warners executives, nervous from the start, grew more anxious after they were blindsided and deeply rattled by the tepid response to BvS. "Kevin was really pissed about damage to the brand," says one executive close to the studio. A key concern for Warners executives was that Suicide Squad didn't deliver on the fun, edgy tone promised in the strong teaser trailer for the film. So while Ayer pursued his original vision, Warners set about working on a different cut, with an assist from Trailer Park, the company that had made the teaser.

I'm a bit worried for the Justice League and Wonder Woman movies, but their trailers were still quite compelling. Looks like DC is targeting a cinematic run at the Injustice storyline too.

 

[L K]

Their movies are just so bogged down to me.  They try and cover weightier topics than Marvel but do it in such an over the top but simplified way that they come across as faux intelligent.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

Star Trek Beyond was really good.

yep.
:'(  Anton

 

[rdowdall]

Their movies are just so bogged down to me.  They try and cover weightier topics than Marvel but do it in such an over the top but simplified way that they come across as faux intelligent.

Agreed.  To me they focus on the wrong points.  BvS was really two movies merged in to one, and because of that they fail to deliver the payload that they are intending to deliver.  For those that have read the comic that the ending of BvS is based on, it delivered the emotional impact and because of the way that they structured the movie, it just couldn't do that.

 

[herman]

It's happening!!!!!

 

[Kin]

Gene Wilder died, which is a bummer. The Mel Brooks movies he was in are probably second only to the Marx brothers stuff in terms of the greatest comedies of all time.

 

[herman]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/geoff-johns-on-the-future-of-dc-movies-relax-were-cha-1786394751

In their first interview since taking over the DC Films, the men put in charge of righting the ship after Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad admitted that the tone of the previous films has been wrong?and as a result, many changes are being made.

Those men are Geoff Johns and Jon Berg, the DC Comics chief creative officer and Warner Bros. executive, respectively, who are now in charge of the DC Films slate, which includes Justice League, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman and many others.

?In the past, I think the studio has said, ?Oh, DC films are gritty and dark and that?s what makes them different.? That couldn?t be more wrong,? Johns told The Wall Street Journal. ?It?s a hopeful and optimistic view of life. Even Batman has a glimmer of that in him. If he didn?t think he?d make tomorrow better, he?d stop.?

[...]

That film will also ?directly address Batman?s extreme actions in [Batman v Superman], such as torturing criminals and nearly killing the Man of Steel, rather than accept them as par for the course.? That?s similar to what happened in Batman v Superman, which addressed Superman?s inadvertent destruction of the city of Metropolis during Man of Steel for its first act.

Oh good.

 

[Kin]

Is tone really the issue. The Dark Knight was plenty, well, dark and gritty and it was as good a super hero movie as has been made.

It seems to me that the problem with the movies they've been putting out is that they're just not good.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Is tone really the issue. The Dark Knight was plenty, well, dark and gritty and it was as good a super hero movie as has been made.

It seems to me that the problem with the movies they've been putting out is that they're just not good.

I think much like a hard-nosed coach generally has a limited shelf life in any job before being tuned-out, superhero movies can only give you so many gut punches before you're just longing for someone to crack a smile.

Nolan's Batman was the Deer Hunter of comic book films and if every film tries that, it wears an audience down.

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[herman]

Is tone really the issue. The Dark Knight was plenty, well, dark and gritty and it was as good a super hero movie as has been made.

It seems to me that the problem with the movies they've been putting out is that they're just not good.

Tone change might just be a gentle euphemism for ousting Snyder.

I recently saw the extended cut of BvS. It wasn't good, but it wasn't unwatchably terribad. A lot of characterization didn't make much sense, but apart from Superman, we haven't really received a full story from anyone else yet, so they're free to augment the story after the fact. Not really good film making, per se, but it's a punt on the 4th down sort of thing.

One thing I appreciated about the Whedon Avengers films was that table setting scene early on to re-establish the characters, if even in broad strokes, without spelling it all out with exposition (both taking place literally at a table). For all its flaws, the Mjolnir scene at the dinner party in Age of Ultron was brilliant at accomplishing this (including setting up the revelation that allows them to progress in the third act).

 

[Kin]

Huh. Maybe it's just me but I didn't think the Dark Knight was, you know, Raging Bull in terms of tone or anything. There's still a bunch of big action set-pieces and Ledger gets some good jokes in there.