Author Topic: The last movie I saw was... (Read 969088 times)

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3990 on:** Jul 16, 2016, 09:53:56 AM »

Ghostbusters!

Defying all expectations... it was good. It was actually good. A good Ghostbusters movie. Just a plain good movie.

I can scarcely believe it.

Practically everything that looked bad in the trailer worked perfectly within the context of the film. It's the exact opposite of what usually happens, where a trailer makes you think a movie will be awesome, but then ends up sucking.

No joke. I liked it.

B E C K · « **Reply #3991 on:** Jul 17, 2016, 03:28:12 AM »

That movie's been gettin' lots of good buzz. I'm surprised it's doing so well.

I saw a movie called Last Knights, which is some sort of pseudo-Medieval, 47 Ronin knock-off starring Clive Owen. The acting was horrendous and the writing needed some serious polish. I mean, is the kid who wrote Eragon time-traveling to the future to write movie scripts? It could've been a much better movie so easily. Even Morgan Freeman was hackish in this flick.

And I finally saw the movie Sneakers. It really lost me playing the blind character the way they did. At least Redford and Portier work so well with what they're given.

B E C K · « **Reply #3992 on:** Jul 19, 2016, 04:32:09 AM »

Oh, and another thing... all of this time, I thought it was called "Sneakers" in relation to shoes somehow. I never realized it was another term for a hacker. I even told my dad this and he was "me, too." LOL

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3993 on:** Jul 19, 2016, 10:54:56 AM »

I've been reading/watching negative reviews for Ghostbusters, and I know it's weird, but I actually feel kind of guilty for liking it now. Like, I'm talking about the people who reasonably explain what they feel is wrong with the movie, and I really can't disagree with a lot of what they have to say.

But I still liked it.

B E C K · « **Reply #3994 on:** Jul 20, 2016, 04:38:04 AM »

Ok, so I'm curious and looked for a negative review or two. Was the ending as clusterfucky as it sounds? It seems like the first reviewer liked the first half or so, even though it was lingering dangerously close to the familiar ground of the first flick.

So I found these quotes from me in a two year old thread. Selective bolding is new:

Quote from: B E C K on Aug 05, 2014, 10:24:33 AM

And I forgot to post about Femme!busters. Ghostbusters with chicks instead of dudes. I bet if this goes forward, they cast Melissa McCarthy, two other hotter white chicks (including Kristen Wiig maybe), and Maya Rudolph. Maya will chell off so many diversity boxes pants will be wettened. Hurr hurr. And the plot will involve one of them obsessing over a ghost-boyfriend because "ommagawd so old i needz a man."

Quote from: B E C K on Oct 14, 2014, 11:19:58 PM

I can't stand Bradley Cooper's face. lol. I just don't like it. Also, I would prefer more than one minority fem-buster. But we all know that shit won't happen. We'll be lucky if we actually get Aisha Tyler or a black woman at all. We'll be twice as lucky if they don't pigeonhole her into the "sassy" box.

Was Leslie Jones sassy tho'?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3995 on:** Jul 20, 2016, 07:22:36 AM »

The ending was a hot mess, yeah. Big time.

I'm not sure if I should I be in awe of your future sight, or disgusted with Sony for being so pedestrian in their casting.

I don't know about sass, but Leslie Jones definitely fills the boisterous black lady role.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3996 on:** Jul 22, 2016, 02:34:22 AM »

Star Trek Beyond is beyond trash. Couldn't be worse than Into Darkness, you say. Guess what.

B E C K · « **Reply #3997 on:** Jul 22, 2016, 04:21:07 AM »

Oh no.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #3998 on:** Jul 22, 2016, 09:02:02 AM »

And yet it's certified fresh on RT.

Shake My Head

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #3999 on:** Jul 23, 2016, 12:16:48 AM »

Into Darkness was a cinematic abortion. I already wasn't seeing Beyond, so thanks for the confirmation.

Only thing I'm really looking forward to right now is Suicide Squad. Mainly because I loved the old comics, so I'm sure I'll be enormously disappointed.

B E C K · « **Reply #4000 on:** Jul 23, 2016, 02:05:46 AM »

Each Suicide Squad trailer makes me cringe more and more.

Oh, and another thing about Star Trek Beyond... there's a Rihanna song on the soundtrack. Actually a Sia song performed by Rihanna. For a Star Trek movie. Maybe the next St*r WarzzZZ movie can use a Lady Gaga song written by Greg Kurstin. Fuck.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4001 on:** Jul 23, 2016, 08:42:47 AM »

You don't even know about the music in Beyond. You don't even.

There be spoilers ahead...

They use Sabotage by the Beastie Boys to defeat the antagonist's army.

I repeat, they use Sabotage to beat the bad guys.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4002 on:** Jul 23, 2016, 10:40:28 PM »

Batman: The Killing Joke is available online. I'll let you know how it fares sometime tomorrow. Given some of what I've read, it goes too far in its additions to the original story.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4003 on:** Jul 24, 2016, 08:01:57 PM »

I just attempted to post a long review of The Killing Joke, and it's stuck trying to preview. So I've probably lost it, and it's not worth retyping.

Verdict: don't bother. It's unbelievably poorly-done, unless you liked the graphic novel and start watching at the 28 minute mark.

EDIT: Oh, wait, I was able to recover it without headache. Here you go:

No, no, no. They completely screwed the pooch with Killing Joke. How the hell do you do that? By mashing a bad episode of Batman The Animated Adventures to a short graphic novel adaptation and making a movie out of it. If you want to watch it as an animated version of TKJ, just start watching around the 28 minute mark. And from there it's a pretty fair adaptation, though I hated the way they translated the very ending...for the record, Kevin Conroy could possibly pull off a creepier Joker than Mark Hamill.

Now, granted, the original book wasn't the most enjoyable story, but it was important as the first attempt at giving the Joker an origin and attempting to humanize him to a degree, and later being the springboard for Barbara Gordon becoming Oracle. At its heart it's a tale of the Joker. What they did was try to make it a Batgirl story, but they really, really failed at it.

The first 28 minutes are about her being pursued by a crook who's infatuated with her, and when Batman tells her to back off she takes it as him being domineering. Which he is, and they wind up having angry sex on a building. So after he pushes her off the case and keeps her at arm's length afterwards she leaps headlong into finding the bad guy, finds out that Batman was right that she'd put herself into it too far, and walks away from crime-fighting in the end.

Now, aside from Batgirl screwing Batman--which is totally at odds with all comic continuity (this is not Animated Universe where such a relationship was hinted in Batman Beyond)--this would be perfectly fine if TKJ was a Batgirl story or if she had any meaningful involvement in the rest of the movie aside from what Joker does to her in an effort to drive the Commissioner insane. But it's completely tacked on and artificial, and when you see the fidelity to the source material in the rest of the show it just blows my mind that they thought it was a good idea in any way, shape, or form. Batgirl is now more or less a jilted lover of a guy who in the comics was far more of a father figure than ever a paramour. And that's pretty much what you're left with...unless you count the mid-credit scene where they suddenly remembered, "oh, right, we need to wrap up Batgirl's part in this movie," and they show her with her Oracle alias. Which is totally unexplained to the viewer unfamiliar with the character.

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B E C K · « **Reply #4004 on:** Jul 25, 2016, 03:40:51 AM »

I had no faith this would be competently adapted. I haven't really enjoyed a DC animated movie since 2012 anyway and we're all aware of what the Killing Joke's best known for. I had no need to see it on screen. What was done to Barbara as a character in this adaptation--including forcefully tossing her into the spotlight of a story that wasn't her's to begin with--comes as no surprise to me.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4005 on:** Jul 25, 2016, 11:08:17 AM »

Am I just picky, or has DC's straight-to-video animated stuff looked really crummy for quite some time now? Am I just remembering the older stuff as looking a lot better than it actually does?

The newest one I saw was Gods and Monsters, and it looked pretty good. The story was whatever, but the look of it was at least reminiscent of JLU, etc.

Maybe I'm too hung up on visuals.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4006 on:** Jul 25, 2016, 04:31:44 PM »

I didn't expect them to be able to do the artwork justice in an animated feature, so I had no qualms with that. But I also didn't expect them to tack a long-assed fanfic to the start of the adaptation, either.

B E C K · « **Reply #4007 on:** Jul 26, 2016, 04:07:12 PM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Jul 25, 2016, 11:08:17 AM

Am I just picky, or has DC's straight-to-video animated stuff looked really crummy for quite some time now? Am I just remembering the older stuff as looking a lot better than it actually does?

The newest one I saw was Gods and Monsters, and it looked pretty good. The story was whatever, but the look of it was at least reminiscent of JLU, etc.

Maybe I'm too hung up on visuals.

Nah, nah, I feel the same.

Rama · « **Reply #4008 on:** Jul 27, 2016, 09:05:01 AM »

I also saw Ghostbusters and also really liked it. Like I was surprised how much I liked it. Considered going back and seeing it again liked it.

I didn't even know Star Trek Beyond was out already. That's how little impact that is having on my life.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4009 on:** Jul 27, 2016, 01:12:31 PM »

I know you're a hardline Ghostbusters fan, so the fact you liked it is reassuring.

I'm not crazy afterall. Or maybe I am, but no crazier than Rama.

Rama · « **Reply #4010 on:** Jul 27, 2016, 08:53:05 PM »

Or are you?

Although I would have liked it better as sequel then a reboot.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4011 on:** Jul 28, 2016, 05:36:16 AM »

Well, yeah. The original cast cameos were kind of blech.

Rama · « **Reply #4012 on:** Jul 28, 2016, 08:03:25 AM »

Those were the parts that took me out of the movie the most actually. Had they come back as the same roles as the first one then I think I could have dealt with it better. Just having them be some random person that isn't a Ghostbuster, it was hard for me to have the disconnect. I wasn't thinking "Wow. Murray nails another funny role!" I was more like. "Why is Venkman pretending he doesn't believe in ghosts?"

B E C K · « **Reply #4013 on:** Jul 29, 2016, 07:50:59 AM »

You guys are right. Granted, I haven't seen this movie but other franchises have done similar things where the originals do a cameo as another role. Why the fuck couldn't this have been in continuity with the previous films somehow?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4014 on:** Jul 30, 2016, 01:23:25 AM »

I went to Captain Fantastic tonight. So good!

B E C K · « **Reply #4015 on:** Jul 30, 2016, 02:36:32 AM »

I've never even heard of that movie. Googling it, it sounds kinda weird. Is it dramatic or played for laughs or something?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4016 on:** Jul 30, 2016, 03:34:32 AM »

It's sincere, with a good sense of humor.

B E C K · « **Reply #4017 on:** Aug 04, 2016, 01:55:57 AM »

HehehahahAHAHAHAHAHAHA. What the fuck.

Rama · « **Reply #4018 on:** Aug 04, 2016, 08:00:37 AM »

Saw Star Trek Beyond and it wasn't all that bad either. Better then Into Darkness at least.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4019 on:** Aug 04, 2016, 11:27:30 AM »

No, man! Really? I hated it. I legitimately hated it. So disappointed in you right now.

Oh well, we'll always have Ghostbusters.

I'm going to Suicide Squanch tonight! I've been looking forward to it ever since they released that first cast photo, and I bought my tickets as soon as they went on sale.

I'll bet you I can find something to like about it.