What was the last movie you've seen?

[stickem]

i never found any of the stephen king inspired movies "horror" or scary. maybe a little twilight zonish and tales from the darksidish lol. maybe that's just me though

[Ack]

i never found any of the stephen king inspired movies "horror" or scary. maybe a little twilight zonish and tales from the darksidish lol. maybe that's just me though

I think the earlier films based on his works are more interesting. The Shining, Cujo, Christine, Carrie, and The Dead Zone are all enjoyable, and I had fun with Silver Bullet. After that...well, Misery is good, though many of his other film adaptations went downhill fast.

[NotLuke]

I think the earlier films based on his works are more interesting. The Shining, Cujo, Christine, Carrie, and The Dead Zone are all enjoyable, and I had fun with Silver Bullet. After that...well, Misery is good, though many of his other film adaptations went downhill fast.

Carla Gugino is the bomb in Gerald's Game.

Solo is to Rogue as Covenant is to Prometheus. So they say.

[samsonlonghair]

More Avengers Infinity War talk:

I walked into the move theatre late Friday night. I encountered a gaggle of teenagers coming out of the movies at the same time. It didn't take Sherlock Homes to figure out which movie they just saw.
"Why... just why?"
"What's the point of being alive?"
"Everything is just dust!"

Teenage melodrama aside, I legitimately felt bad for the girl who was literally crying. I told her that I understand because I felt like crying, myself.

By the way, do still need spoiler tags now? It's been like three weeks now, hasn't it?

[Sarge]

Good grief, y'all, Batman Ninja may have been the dumbest movie I have ever seen. I want my 1.5 hours and $1.75 Redbox charge back. I don't know how much I should go into detail, but some initial comments on quality...

Dialogue is pretty terrible, feels like bad video game dialogue with no real flow or pacing. The voice acting is all over the place as well. The animation isn't 2D, it's 3D-rendered cel-shaded stuff, but it often exhibits a very poor frame rate. But some of that can be forgiven if the story is good.

It ain't, y'all. It ain't. Spoilers ahead.

Gorilla Grodd sends several Gotham criminals back in time, and Batman, Nightwing, Robin, Catwoman, etc. go back in time with them to Edo-era Japan (I think). That seems like it would be a great plot setup, but the whole film jumps the shark with all the villains (Penguin, Deathstroke, Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy) having castles that transform into mechs. There's a stupid "cute" monkey that shows up that is friends with Robin. At some point, Gorilla Grodd giving Batman a flute that controls all the monkeys in the area ("millions", really?), who swarm the Joker's now combined mech (yes, all the other ones go all Power Rangers and form a giant robot), and eventually all these monkeys form a giant monkey that attacks the Joker mech. Joker busts out a flame thrower, and it starts killing all the linked together monkeys, which is when all the bats swarm in and apparently link together with the monkeys to make a giant Batman mech thingy. It's all so stupid! There is one cool swordfight between Batman and Joker, but even that is ruined when Batman apparently dies, only to actually be a bunch of bats that formed together to look like Batman, and every time Joker lands a "hit", Batman poofs into a bunch of bats and eventually takes him down.

I seriously, honestly, feel about 20-30 IQ points dumber having watched this movie. What's worse is that it actually holds an 89% on RT, and IGN gave it a 9.7! What are people smoking? Must have been the same thing as the producers of this movie. Avoid at all costs.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Michael Mann’s Thief is on Prime Video now. It is awesome:

https://film.avclub.com/michael-mann-s- ... 1798259718

I also watched Young Adult, which is also streaming on a Prime Video, yesterday. It was incredibly solid, but probably won’t suit the tastes of many of the forum’s members.

[samsonlonghair]

Just watched Deadpool 2. Here’s my spoiler-free mini review: Not as funny as the first one, but still funny enough to make me laugh repeatedly (which puts it above most action comedies). Good cast overall. Domino steals every scene she’s in. More thoughts to come at a more reasonable hour.

[MrPopo]

Just watched Deadpool 2. Here’s my spoiler-free mini review: Not as funny as the first one, but still funny enough to make me laugh repeatedly (which puts it above most action comedies). Good cast overall. Domino steals every scene she’s in. More thoughts to come at a more reasonable hour.

Holy shitballs. Oh, holy shitballs.

[marurun]

Holy shitballs. Oh, holy shitballs.

I think you can buy a salve for that.

[samsonlonghair]

Deadpool 2
The spoileriffic review

Seriously, there are spoilers here. You have been warned.

We live in a renaissance of Superhero films. In the 1990s we considered ourselves lucky when a single superhero flick was any good at all. Since 2000, a procession of team building franchise superhero films have consistently raised the bar and upped the ante. The last amazing superhero film is still in theaters when the next one comes out three or four weeks later. Black Panther was still in theaters when Avengers Infinity War came out, and Infinity War is still raking in dollars as Deadpool 2 premiers this weekend (just four weeks before Incredibles 2). Can you blame audiences for feeling just a little bit exhausted?

Deadpool 2 is both a product of and a reaction to this crowded playing field of increasingly enormous team franchise superhero movies. The character Deadpool is known for his unique proclivity to break the fourth wall. Who better than Deadpool himself to name names and stick his finger squarely in the face of today's superhero films?

Deadpool 2 starts with a slow meditation on the film Logan. Deadpool laments that Hugh Jackman not only spring-boarded off Deadpool's previous success as an R-rated superhero movie, Logan then upped the ante by dying in the end of his movie. How can Deadpool raise the stakes beyond that? Deadpool raises the bar the only way he can. He dies at the beginning of the movie by self-immolation and explodes across the screen in a hail of dismembered body parts like Daffy Duck after playing the dynamite Xylophone key on Way down upon the Swanee River. I would hazard to say that not one single member of the audience was even remotely shocked to see Deadpool's head and arms fly in opposite directions. We all knew it was just a setup. We've seen Thanos; nothing can shock us now.

Remember those team franchise movies? Let's have a whole montage of assembling a superhero team. Then let's kill all of them (except for one) before they even arrive at the mission. Are you shocked yet? Are you? What do you mean you're not shocked? How could you have seen that coming?


No matter how hard Deadpool may thumb his nose at convention, Deadpool 2 remains a fairly conventional movie. Even as Deadpool quips about the second act always ending on a down-note, It's still a three-act story. This is Wade Wilson's redemption arc. Was the audience asking for a redemption arc wherein Deadpool turns into a relateable nice guy with a heart for an abused child? Probably not; doesn't matter; that's what we're getting whether we asked for it or not.

Now let's talk about the cast.

Before the movie even premiered, there was a lot of talk on the internet about Negasonic Teenage Warhead's new girlfriend. More than one blogger called this "the first queer Marvel character" or "the first gay character in the MCU". Neither of these statements is true. Not because Marvel comics have had openly gay and bi characters since the 1990s, nor because Deadpool isn't in the MCU (at least not yet). The reason those statements are untrue is because NTW's girlfriend is hardly even a character at all. She's a one-dimensional cute asian girl who tells Deadpool that he's cool. That's it. What's her motivation? Doesn't matter. She's cute, and she's asian, and she thinks Deadpool is cool. Why does she think Deadpool is cool? That doesn't matter either. Her hair is PINK! Can't you see how pink her hair is? What more do you want, audience? She has approximately three lines in the whole film (one of which is describing how cool the titular character is). But thank goodness she has cute pink hair, amirite? If the world was hoping for an interesting progressive queer character on screen, then this isn't it. For the life of me, I can't even remember her name.


That overweight kid from The Wilderpeople is here. He's traumatized; he's angry. He's basically a plot device for Deadpool's redemption arc. At least he has a back story.

Zazie Beetz is the real breakout star of this movie. She has the kind of screen presence that let's the audience know she's going to be a star. She's absolutely flipping killing it as Domino! She has grace, style, poise, and she kicks ass.


Josh Brolin kind of phones it in as Cable. Deadpool keeps calling him Thanos. It was funny the first time.

An awkward pile of CGI plays the Juggernaut. This Juggernaut looks like a rejected character model from Ang Lee's HULK. I think it's voiced by the same guy who voices Colossus. I don't get why the CGI looks so awful here. Colossus doesn't look too bad, but the Juggernaut falls squarely into the uncanny valley. It's something about the way he walks. Despite weighing a metric ton, Juggernaut seems to have no weight at all. The music that plays during the Juggernaut fight scene saves it though. It's a take on Oh Fortuna, but instead of the chorus chanting in Latin, the Chorus chants swear words that describe how flabbergasted they are to see the Juggernaut fight.

Practically everyone else from the first film reprises their roles. I was impressed they brought back the whole cast - even supporting characters like Dopinder.

OK, real talk: I've said a lot of negative things about Deadpool 2, but (god help me) it made me laugh. I'm talking big belly laughs. I've gotta admit for all the things this movie fails at, Deadpool 2 succeeded at making me laugh, and that's really all they had to do anyway.

Verdict: Go see Deadpool 2; don't think too hard.