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― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 January 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
five bags of popcorn
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 31 January 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
I’m gonna give it five bags of popcorn and a jumbo cup of soda because Jesus was probably thirsty after not having any soda for three whole days
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 31 January 2022 02:47 (two years ago) link
Scream were actually pretty enjoyable. not scary at all, but the humor much less eye-rolly than 4.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
Having watched it, I'd say Top Gun Maverick is now in my most promising list.
turns out that real people doing stunts in the real world and a good story is a refreshing change from two computer generated characters ending the film with a punch up.
which is how 85% of the films listed will end.
also maybe Downton Abbey, I havent seen that so cant confirm...
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 27 May 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
Was wondering if we had a Top Gun thread but yeah I thought this new one was great. The last half hour was thrilling, very Mission Impossible
― Vinnie, Friday, 27 May 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
ILX was way ahead of the curve.
https://kotaku.com/morbius-memes-twitch-movie-morbing-time-nintendo-switch-1848987370
― jmm, Saturday, 28 May 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
Walter Chaw makes a decent case for the new TG: https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/05/top-gun-maverick.html
(still a tough sell for me, I admit; the original may be my very least favorite of the big 80s blockbusters)
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Sunday, 29 May 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
is this where we are talking about tom gun: cruise control starring my favorite action star tom gun
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
anyway, maverick: totally fine! really thrilling sports movie where the sport is murdering people for the government in a big fast plane. pretty much nothing gay about it except for the brief instances where cruise mourns his long-departed life partner goose, but at least true to form the straight romantic scenes are hilariously parodic and boring. (love connelly though, her presence in any movie is... comforting(?) to me. need to bring this up to my therapist.) and nowhere near as beautiful and palatial as the first but it functions much better as a blockbuster
it is also awful evil propaganda and that only really settled in when they're celebrating their kills at the end :) i like a lot of reagan-era "the cities are swarming with drug-addicted mutants and the only person who can save you is a cop who doesn't play by the rules and his enormous gun" conservative propaganda (and of course i also love the cia propaganda franchise also starring my beloved tom gun) that feels like it transpires in a hilarious fantasy universe only vaguely attached to ours, but i can perceive the real world consequences of the collected tom guns a lot more when i actually watch them. i already know i would hate to fly a really fast plane with a gun attached to it, but i will say it made flying a really fast plane seem so attractive, aside from all the scenes of people's faces bending backward because of the all of the fuckin gs they're absorbing (which made me think... oh, this is technology morphing the human body into new shapes... and my brain autospliced the opening airplane hangar scene from cronenberg's crash into the film)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
When you got movies like Tom Cruise in them, you can't lose
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
tom gun drops to his knees to make out with the zip in ice kilmer's stomach, tony scott returns from the dead to light the strands of saliva between tongue cruise and val's cancer
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
excellent review Brad!
i also enjoyed it more than I expected... it's very well constructed as a war-sport-mission-popcorn movie. agreed that the romance doesn't quite sing, but those scenes still has more in them for me than all the stuff with the generic new recruits. although i guess it worked for some --- when the shithead guy steps up and does something useful, a mild round of applause went up from somewhere in the auditorium. my partner whispered to me, baffled: "who's a fan of Hangman?!
but the real step down from the original was aesthetic... Scott and the score gave it this amazing hazy overpowering quality that's really been smoothed out here.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
also i couldn't get past how stupid their mission was. really? there's no other way to do this? what if you sent in, idk, a slightly higher number of planes. oh right, only the enemy has the super advanced unstoppable Fifth Generation Fighters. clearly we've starved the Pentagon for too long.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
put me down as someone for whom the new recruits worked, but that's prob because they're like the crew of a slasher film, all paper-thin archetypes
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
I kept thinking of the Futurama line about "a dedicated young man, with no characteristics."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
this could easily become "most promising" if they do the right thing and cast danny devito as the title character
A live-action film is in development based on the classic arcade game with an endless appetite, #PacMan https://t.co/Z6nBd7qgmD pic.twitter.com/aG98LUtTym— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 8, 2022
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 August 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
predator 5 best predator
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 8 August 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
Y’all have almost convinced me to watch it.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 8 August 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
All the manbabies on Twitter whining about the ending has convinced me to watch it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 August 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
I thought Prey was...well, I didn't much like the original Predator to begin with (never saw any of the other sequels). Liked the girl, liked the dog, liked the setting, but I found a lot of the action hard to follow, to the extent that I had to rewind a couple of scenes to be sure what was going on. I'm happy that people are happy, though.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 19 August 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
it definitely feels like it's being overrated just for not being bad. it isn't bad, but it isn't particularly good either. acting was fine, the effects were pretty good, i didn't have a problem with the action, but there was nothing in particular in it that excited me or seemed especially interesting.
― na (NA), Friday, 19 August 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
i do agree that i enjoyed it more than the o.g. Predator, which i rewatched recently and is a very unpleasant movie
― na (NA), Friday, 19 August 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
the animal disembowelment in Prey i found extremely unpleasant. was going to watch it with the boys but the 10 yo loves animals of all kinds and i think would be pretty upset by it
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 August 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
that said it looks absolutely amazing on a good tv (brag brag)
Today in S/R/F news…
"Disney+ added that the new series, TWO GIANT GORILLAS FUCKING, will most likely reside behind the age-restriction barriers on the streaming service." https://t.co/oX3GVdcnIx— DrewMcWeeny (@DrewMcWeeny) August 23, 2022
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imn_gHwvUmc
"fletch, confess" with jon hamm as fletch
preview is promising? feels like they're trying to cash in on "knives out" kinda but a few lines made me chuckle
― na (NA), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
sorry "confess, fletch"
I...kinda want to see that.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
The novel (and the whole Fletch series) are drier and smarter than the Chevy Chase movie suggests. And solid plots. Hamm seems like a great choice.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 25 August 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
I read three or four of the novels as a teenager, around the time the movie came out. They were good; I wonder if they'd stand up now.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
I seen Confess, Fletch this week and it was dreadful. Enough very good or competent people involved to wonder why it fell so flat.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
i thought it was pretty ok! i lol’d throughout, maybe too loudly on the plane. i will not remember a thing about it by tomorrow
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
The actual mystery plot itself was fine but 98% of the jokes just died horribly. It wasn't even that they were terrible jokes but something about the delivery felt really off. One of the worst films I've seen in a while.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Not gonna go to bat very hard for it but my experience was more like Brad's: amusing and diverting enough, and I lolled several times. I'd watch another sequel, though I have doubts this was successful enough to make another
― Vinnie, Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
loved the rookie detective getting constantly outfletched by fletch
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
Not as good as a Fletch book, but a good modern adaptation of a Fletch book. Would happily watch two a year.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Saturday, 26 November 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link