What was the last movie you've seen?

[noiseredux]

noise also likes everything

We can't all have dead souls.

[noiseredux]

having watched a few random entries in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series, I figured a better place to start was the beginning. Doomsday is based on The Dead Of Superman and I was quite impressed with everything here.

[REPO Man]

I cancelled my preorder for the Blu-Ray release just so I could get the Digital HD release on Amazon Video. I had $10 left over and bought The Wiz Live.

As for the film itself, it was worth the wait. While considered a box office bomb (it apparently made its budget back and then some) and received mixed reviews, I actually enjoyed it.

I do, however feel as though the film is not without issues. Hopefully the sequel will up the ante and feature way more Power Rangers action, new monsters and the Green Ranger.

[Ack]

Hey REPO, you want to make films, right? So break this one down. What were the problems? What did it get right? Drop the fact it's a property you are a fan of and really analyze it for me.

[Fragems]

Bought Logan the other day and honestly I have to say I didn't care for it.

I think it is possibly the worst out of the Three Wolverine movies . It's just super predictable, over the top with the gore, and the story/characters are bland. Origins may be the popular movie to hate but at least it had a diverse cast of characters and a passable plot although I do have to say Deadpool in that film was horrible. Logan however turns into a really boring road trip with Wolverine chopping off a limb or impaling someones face every 10 minutes for some shock value. The cast is really small with alot of bland characters who mostly serve as cannon fodder. Plus it feels like the story that was there needs alot more exposition to make it worthwhile and instead they just tossed a line or two here and there to hint at what happened in an attempt to keep things mysterious. I guess my biggest issue with the film though is the X-men timeline is such a cluster at this point that it's hard to make heads or tails of it as a whole and this film just seems like another cash in.

Also Logan's illness is so stupid.

Honestly his adamantium implants are killing him why the fuck is that just now happening and why wasn't he affected in Days of Future Past. Plus his daughter has the same implants he could at least give her a heads up. The way they killed off Wolverine and Professor X in this film was also pretty boring and anticlimactic and on top of being super predictable were also revealed in the trailer .

I watched the film twice in a row to see if maybe it was better the second time around but it still felt kind of like a cash grab with poor writing and a small budget(99 million is alot but it's half the budget of the other recent x-men films). There weren't really a ton of huge action sequences or effects used in the film either and the effects that were used didn't feel very polished by today's standards.

Altogether this feels like just another attempt at a Deadpool movie and it just doesn't reach same level of quality. They really relied on Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart a ton to carry the film and both of their performances felt kind of phoned in the rest of the cast just felt scrapped together and the Villain was just your standard evil corporation.

Plus using a Wolverine clone as the baddie was a freaking hilarious money saving move. A good villain could have saved the film instead they forced Hugh Jackman to play dual roles Nutty Professor style .

[Xeogred]

Worse than Origins?!?!?

[MrPopo]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Fragems has been sniffing too much of that envelope glue or something.

[prfsnl_gmr]

The Blackcoat's Daughter is an excellent slow-burn horror film, and I highly recommend it. The ending is great, and it is currently available for streaming on Amazon. Get on it, Noise!

[REPO Man]

Hey REPO, you want to make films, right? So break this one down. What were the problems? What did it get right? Drop the fact it's a property you are a fan of and really analyze it for me.

The pacing is way too slow. Most superhero films of similar runtimes that also focus on the origin of the subject(s), such as the first Raimi Spider-Man, have the main character take up the mantle of the hero by the first 45 minutes. But the new teenagers with attitude don't morph until the LAST 30-45 minutes.

I get that they're trying to show us who the teens are in their everyday lives, but how does that translate to fewer Power Rangers-related scenes?

And then there's the Krispy Kreme. I get it's a tie-in but they're basically throwing it right in their faces. No Krispy Kreme products just lying around (i.e. donut box on a desk, someone drinking a beverage from a branded cup), I mean the Zeo Crystal is hidden under a Krispy Kreme! I get showing Rita taking a bite out of a donut, and thank God she doesn't go "Oh, God that's good! Maybe killing the planet that created this awesome delicacy isn't such a good idea... nah, fuck it!" or something similar. It's just crass and blatant.

Why can't they just morph earlier in the film, clash with Rita, go back to their lives, et al?

Also, why no flashbacks to Zordon and Rita's lives when they were Rangers? Only one scene, at the beginning, of Zordon and Rita. Rita admits to killing rangers before and yet only one scene of her years as a ranger.

And then there's the fact that...

When the Rangers, unable to morph, go up against Rita, she thrashes them and even FUCKING KILLS BILLY! And then what happens?Zordon decides to give up his chance at being brought back to the physical world to bring Billy back to life, the one decent thing he did after being a shit to the rangers over their inability to morph. Why even kill Billy in the first place? To keep Zordon from coming back? Why even have the idea on the table in the first place?

I know it seems like there's no sense to my logic, but it's just how I feel. Well, how I've managed to give form to the thoughts in my head. I have a deal with that sometimes. Like solving a Rubiks Cube with no senses.

[Sano]

Thirteen Days, amazing movie. One of my favorites.