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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4680 on: Oct 20, 2021, 11:04:06 PM »
Are you a fan of Lynch's Dune? I am. Maybe that's my biggest problem with this new one.

See, Lynch's Dune is just Dune to me. Straight up. I would have been a little kid when I first encountered it, and it made one hell of an impression.

Later I played Dune II for the PC, and aesthetically that one lines right up with Lynch's film. It all just makes cohesive sense.

Then I read Herbert's book. Woof! No thanks.

Maybe Villeneuve’s is a more authentic take on the source material, but to me it just comes off as a lame new autotuned cover of an old song I love.

I read the book first but I still love Lynch's Dune. I think maybe that works in my favor. I also thoroughly enjoyed the two Sci-Fi channel mini-series that aired sometime in the 2000s (I think). My understanding from others that have seen it is that it's somewhat more faithful than Lynch's but takes different breaks from the book, like some characters having quips. I think Frank Herbert would have hated there being quips.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4681 on: Oct 21, 2021, 08:47:21 PM »
The dialogue is weird as fuck in this movie. Most of the time it's modern conversational English, then they'll have someone utter a direct quote from the book and it's just this complete tonal whiplash.

To be clear, I hate that they spend so much time speaking like contemporary people. I don't need it to be Shakespeare or anything, but come on.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4682 on: Oct 24, 2021, 09:32:45 PM »
I both want to and don't want to see Dune. I've actually never seen or read anything Dune. It never interested me in the slightest. I've always known what it was in the most general of terms. I checked out an e-book through the library a few days ago but I've been having headaches and trouble reading screens sometimes. So I might either get an actual paperback or chell out an audio version instead.

If I do see this new Dune, I'll do it when both parts are out. Assuming that ever happens. I'm wary that it wasn't greenlit already. If this is being done as a part one, isn't it cheaper to do the whole thing at one time? Shoot all of the parts you need to with all of the actors you have when you have them and so on and so forth? It doesn't make any budgetary sense imo. You're really going to go to Wadi Rum, send everyone back home, and--what?--do it all over again?  I'm sure it comes from the suits at the studio having little to no faith this will do well but, if so, why was it greenlit in the first place? They really should've gone all in with it.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4683 on: Oct 25, 2021, 03:51:53 AM »
You should watch 1984 Dune first so that you can be fucking biased against the new one like me!

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4684 on: Oct 25, 2021, 09:08:53 PM »
I think I will.  Even if they do the sequel for the new one, it's gonna take forever to come out since the lazy asses haven't even started on it yet.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4685 on: Oct 27, 2021, 05:55:44 PM »
Be sure to watch the Sci-Fi miniseries as well. Even more things to compare.

I watched it. I was entertained. I was mostly annoyed at how loud and dark it was.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4686 on: Nov 03, 2021, 02:10:49 AM »
The French Dispatch was very disappointing. I don't think I've ever been bored by a Wes Anderson movie before. If you had told me he'd go on to make something I'd like even less than Isle of Dogs, I'd never have believed you in a million years, but here we are.

Last Night in Soho was pretty solid. Definitely way better than Baby Driver which was SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT. Undecided as to whether I love or hate the ending, though.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4687 on: Nov 03, 2021, 10:45:47 AM »
The French Dispatch was very disappointing. I don't think I've ever been bored by a Wes Anderson movie before. If you had told me he'd go on to make something I'd like even less than Isle of Dogs, I'd never have believed you in a million years, but here we are.

The French Dispatch was very boring. I liked some of the painter's story but overall the film just did not work at all.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4688 on: Nov 05, 2021, 04:03:46 AM »
Went to Eternals. Kinda glad I was aware of the bad press it's been getting, tempered my expectations quite a bit.

I thought it was fine. Definitely not the worst of the modern Marvel movies, by any stretch.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4689 on: Nov 25, 2021, 02:16:30 AM »
Welcome to Raccoon City was surprisingly good. Like, not even fifteen minutes in and I was ready to declare it superior to all that Milla Jovovich tripe. And it was! I hope they keep it going.

Ghostbusters, on the other hand...


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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4690 on: Dec 17, 2021, 01:35:23 AM »
Spider-Man was damn good. Wow. I didn't care much for the previous one, so I was a little apprehensive, but nope.

If I have one gripe, it's that the CG was kind of inconsistent. A lot of it looks cutting edge/as indistinguishable from reality as you can currently get, but then some of it is like... ugh... how did this get past quality control? Perfectly forgivable stuff, though. Easy to overlook.

Also, man, so much emotionally manipulative shit in this movie. Like, damn. But if it works, it works, I suppose.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4691 on: Dec 17, 2021, 10:58:18 AM »
I'm seeing comments where people are basically circle-jerking Andrew Garfield.  Was Garfield, in fact, superior Spider-Man in this?

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4692 on: Dec 17, 2021, 06:50:56 PM »
See, that's the emotional manipulation stuff I mentioned. The way they utilize him in the movie is honestly brilliant, but at the same time... kind of pandering.

Like, he's essentially the "failed" Spider-Man, and they really make him into a three-legged dog here. You can't help sympathizing with him. And then they give him this phenomenal redemption scene.

It's pretty great.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4693 on: Dec 17, 2021, 06:52:57 PM »
Wait, were you asking if he was the best of the three, or if he's literally Superior Spider-Man?

Because he's definitely not the latter.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4694 on: Dec 17, 2021, 11:54:19 PM »
Nah, just in terms of this movie. Which you answered with your other post. I was seeing comments to the tune of "Andrew Garfield was great in this! He should have his own Spider-Man movie!" Not like the quality of the two he got was necessarily his fault, but I still found it funny.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4695 on: Dec 24, 2021, 03:44:04 AM »
I had zero interest in Disney's Encanto, but I watched it anyway and it was fucking awesome! I loved it!

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4696 on: Dec 26, 2021, 09:31:12 AM »
The design of the characters just looks so unappealing! But I'm biased because I hate the Disney 3D look that's been going on since Tangled. Look at anything from Tangled onward (Moana, this one, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia) in 2D art like storybooks and other merch to see what I'm talking about. It just looks so much better to me. Meh. I'm just a fogey that prefers 2D. The gross plastic faces with the same expression on them are.... yuck.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4697 on: Dec 31, 2021, 05:13:12 PM »
I saw an 80s/90s era version of Ten Little Indians and just about puked in my mouth. Nevermind the change in setting, everybody's supposed to be dead in the end. Two people live and are hugging and shit. In a Christie adaptation? Fuck you, movie. Seriously! :lol:

Also rewatched Secret of Nimh since it's free on YouTube right now. Then I looked it up in Wikipedia because I recall news of another adaptation on this story... and just about puked in my mouth again. Something-something comical labrats, cg, franchise... you know, the basic ruining of things that happens these days.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4698 on: Jan 01, 2022, 02:21:05 AM »
Are you fucking serious about that Nimh shit? FUCK that. Seriously, fuck THAT. We already have Pinky and the Brain, you no-talent Hollywood hack-frauds.

Did you ever try to watch that Watership Down bowel movement that Netflix squeezed out? I couldn't bring myself to do it. How dare they? God, it looks like one of those asset store games you'd dredge up on Steam.

Back to that first thing you were talking about, you reminded of this thing HBO did a while back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happily_Ever_After:_Fairy_Tales_for_Every_Child

The show ran for five years, so maybe it's actually okay? I don't know, I just remember seeing the Snow White one where they made her and the dwarves Native American, and I was like, "Yo! WTF?"

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4699 on: Jan 01, 2022, 09:56:32 AM »
I never watched the remake Watership Down. I know I heard things about the quality of cg but, meh.

I think I've seen some of that fairytale show. I don't remember what I actually thought of it though.

And, yeah, I'm serious about Nimh. MGM wants an Alvin and the Chipmunks/Smurfs-type movie franchise. I wish I could rewatch 80s-era Alvin and Chipmunks. I enjoyed that show as a kid. I'm interested in how it'd hold up today. But that, Muppet Babies, Daria... shitty music rights and cheapo studios ruin everything.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4700 on: Jan 02, 2022, 12:23:55 AM »
Does anything from our childhoods really hold up today, though?

Anyway, I'm probably going to see Spiderman after church tomorrow since I drug my feet on it this whole past week while I was on vacation and accomplished nothing (which was glorious in itself, but anyway). Was going today, but it was muggy as crap and cloudy with a chance of twisters. Hopefully those things spin on out of town and it's not 80 degrees tomorrow...I mean, we cut the grass today. Otherwise I'm watching Daniel Craig's last boring-ass turn as 007 at the house, assuming there's not a more entertaining football game on between services.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4701 on: Jan 02, 2022, 08:58:20 PM »
I mean, I think Secret of Nimh kind of does. Jem also does imo. Like, as in "hold up" as decent kids' media. Where I feel the same way about them as I did when I was a child. Strangely enough, Talespin of all things held up the last time I watched it while Rescue Rangers was terrible and Gargoyles bored me. But good luck finding the episodes with guns in 'em. :lol:

Have you actually seen that 007 movie? As in, is this a rewatch or watching it for the first time? Spider-Man, like, I'd like to say I'll eventually watch it but... man, I haven't even seen the first two.

I did watch some movies for X-Mas: Die Hard 2 because that's the one free on Tubi. I rewatched it twice. Rewatched Home Alone with my sis along with Harry Potter 1 and 2.

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« Reply #4702 on: Jan 14, 2022, 05:42:12 PM »
I must have blocked it from existence, but I was recently reminded that they already besmirched Nimh with 1998's Timmy to the Rescue. Blech.

I watched Belle. It was nice, but how it eventually ends up was kinda... I dunno. Like, I understand what they were going for, I'm just not sure they got there.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4703 on: Jan 15, 2022, 12:37:41 AM »
I wanted to see that and I just forgot about it. But, yeah, I heard stuff that it was kinda lackluster. Like on first glance from the trailers, it looks like some Beauty and the Beast type story but the "beast" is an abused child. And she helps this kid by yelling at his dad or something? I mean, yeah, sure. Dunno if I'm recollecting this properly.

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« Reply #4704 on: Jan 15, 2022, 02:54:09 AM »
No, that's pretty much it exactly. Except the whole child abuse aspect is introduced and resolved in the last 40 minutes of a 2 hour movie. Like, they could have played it safe and gone the teen romance route instead, but I guess that just would have been bland?

I will admit the scene where she finally comes to terms with her mother's passing kicked my emotions in the balls.

Lots to like about it other than the weird tonal shift, though.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4705 on: Jan 15, 2022, 09:16:17 AM »
Should they have cut the abused kid entirely? It almost sounds like they should've.

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« Reply #4706 on: Jan 15, 2022, 01:01:01 PM »
Yeah, I guess it would have been a completely different movie at that point.

I'm not even sure what the moral was supposed to be. It's noble to sacrifice yourself to save another? Feels like the story's message gets all mixed up after a while.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4707 on: Jan 16, 2022, 12:07:04 AM »
Before I read that abused kid shit, I was a down for some "Summer Wars meets Beauty and the Beast." Pity.

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« Reply #4708 on: Jan 16, 2022, 02:03:08 AM »
It's still essentially that. I can't not recommend it. It could have been a near perfect anime film, but it falls a little short.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4709 on: Jan 21, 2022, 10:37:25 AM »
I never saw any of the movies I intended to go see. I just don't have time for it.
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