The Movie Thread Reloaded

[Lurkndog]

The first Meg movie was pretty clearly made for the Chinese market. It was a fine giant shark movie, though.

It will be a sad day when Statham ages out of doing action movies.

[zer0th]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was fun. I doesn't require you to be completely up-to-date with the Marvel She-nematic Universe to understand it and, if there was any wokism in the film, it was hidden enough for me to miss it. Some may point out that the male protagonists are clowns and the female ones are competent and focused; but even being clowns the males are useful and respected. So, no girl boss and idiot men trope in the movie. There are a lot worse things to waste two hours than watching this action-comedy.

James Gunn is a strange guy that managed to make three fun Marvel movies without going full woke, unlike Taika Waititi. Odd that he decided to throw away the best asset DC movies had for his reboot universe, that is, firing Henry Cavill.

[Lurkndog]

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is out on Disney+ now.

I own both of the previous Ant-Man movies on Blu-Ray, and love them.

This one got me to ragequit inside of 15 minutes. Will not be buying woke bullshit.

[Omega]

Whats so bad about Quantum Mania?

I know they botched Kang. But they have botched so many characters, especially villains, that I stopped caring.

[Omega]

Got my own copy of Golden Voyage of Sinbad, one of the classic Harryhausen series and John Phillop Law made for a great Sinbad, and Tom Baker is so fun playing the evil wizard.

This has to be the origin of the D&D bat-winged Homunculus.

[Ratman_tf]

Got my own copy of Golden Voyage of Sinbad, one of the classic Harryhausen series and John Phillop Law made for a great Sinbad, and Tom Baker is so fun playing the evil wizard.

This has to be the origin of the D&D bat-winged Homunculus.

Love that movie.

[Omega]

One of my friends saw Guardians 3 and let slip that they destroy Wungagore/Counter Earth.

So fuck that. Not seeing the movie. My interest in modern Disney movies and especially its Marvel movies is now less than zero.

[Wrath of God]

I think it's relatively normal in MCU for many elements that served in comics for decades to be one film and kill things. Different nature of the medium I'd say - you never gonna put even 1% of comics content into movie series.

[Lurkndog]

Whats so bad about Quantum Mania?

I know they botched Kang. But they have botched so many characters, especially villains, that I stopped caring.

The thing that set me off was Scott's daughter Cassie being recast and turned into an Antifa goon.

[I]

Got my own copy of Golden Voyage of Sinbad, one of the classic Harryhausen series and John Phillop Law made for a great Sinbad, and Tom Baker is so fun playing the evil wizard.

This has to be the origin of the D&D bat-winged Homunculus.

Absolutely one of the finest fantasy films ever made.  At the tender age of seven, I developed a painful crush on Caroline Munro that still exists to this day.

[Omega]

7th Voyage of Sinbad was not bad either. Remember going to see Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger at the theater.

Law though in Golden Voyage just felt like he really fit the role.

[zer0th]

One of my friends saw Guardians 3 and let slip that they destroy Wungagore/Counter Earth.
So fuck that. Not seeing the movie.

I stopped reading comics in the very late 1990s, so Guardians of the Galaxy is a new thing to me. I didn't have any emotional attachment with these characters and stories. To me, it is just some fun space fantasy adventure. But I know the sentiment, the X-Men films did things that I cannot even understand the reason behind them.

[Reckall]

I watched "The Artifice Girl" (why not "Artificial" is explained in the movie). Really, really well made.

First time director. He also wrote the movie, acted in it and edited the final version. It is basically a theatrical play, shot in two rooms and with 90 minutes of pure dialogue - and yet I wasn't bored for a single second (only the ending drags a bit).

The topic, of course, is AIs and their evolution. It is extremely timely, as you can see in the movie the logical evolution of ChatGPT and similar programs (there is already a mod for Skyrim which uses an external AI to generate believable dialogue for NPCs). Strong "Black Mirror" vibes here, which is always a good thing.

The young girl who plays the Artifice Girl is astounding, but all the (very small) cast does a really good job, starting with the director.

Best movie of the year so far, at least for me.

[Lurkndog]

I started watching Yellowstone this week, after YouTube showed me a bunch of clips from the show.

I'm not sorry I bought it, but I'm not 100% on board with it either.

It hits a lot of the same notes as Sons of Anarchy, which I enjoyed for a while until I got tired of the murderous nature of it.

Apologies if there was already discussion of this, I know I'm late to the party.

[Omega]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently up free on YouTube from Paramont+ with no need to buy in.

So been watching it and have to say. So far been liking it. The first episode dragged a little. Then moved along nicely once they were on the Enterprise.

So far liking the characters, especially Pike and Number One. But the interactions between the characters is surprisingly well done. Uhura is a little off model. But I like her new cadet bouncyness.

5 episodes in and while it can be a little preachy at times. Overall it has been enjoyable where Discovery was the diametric opposite of enjoyable.

Ep 1 gets the ball rolling and gathers the crew.
Ep 2 spotlights Uhura as the Wesley of the series apparently.
ep 3 is not as good as it could have been and is a really lame prejudice is bad episode.
Ep 4 is a good episode. But it follows up on a wha? element of the current history much as Discovery was playing fast and loose with.
Ep 5 is just demented.

So yeah. Some bumps, but overall its pretty good.