What was the last movie you've seen?

Post by **KalessinDB** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:29 pm

Went to see the Vacation sequel a few days ago. Good but not great. Suffers from the issue so many movies do these days where they give away way too many good jokes in the trailer so there's hardly any surprises left in the movie. I'm not saying there's none, but I feel like the majority of the laughs I knew were coming.

But damn if I wasn't smiling like an idiot the second I heard Holiday Road start up

Post by **Luke** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 11:45 am

Fragems wrote: I was getting bad vibes from the trailer, but dang it sounds like they really made a shit pie .

I think it raked in around 12 million this weekend so far. That's not good. That's a flop.

Reminds me of the stereotypical Hollywood producer who is chomping down on a cigar whilst saying "Hey, if it is Marvel it is going to sell. People just want superheroes!".

If a superhero movie doesn't include a superhero you'd like to be, don't make that movie. Example:

Black Widow: Woman that is underestimated by men. She then kicks their collective butts.
Hulk: Invincible rage monster.
Cap America: Patriot supreme, that went from weak to bad ass.
Iron Man: Playboy, billionaire, cool robot suit.
Hawkeye: Loner, has own agenda, but is a wizard with a bow and fancy arrows.
Thor: Beefcake that controls lightning. Also People's Sexiest man of the year.

Compared to:

Reed Richards: Smart guy who can stretch his body. Never stretches the one part of his body we want to see be stretched.

Thing: The Thing has no dork, nor toes. He has to give us an origin story for "Clobberin' Time".

Susan Storm: She's more about orbs than being invisible. And she can't breathe in her orbs...I think.

Johnny Storm: Has zero personality and can set things, including himself, on fire. But not like a Hadoken of fire, more like when a fire breather breathes fire.

They should have gone goofy or have made this a character piece. Yes, nerds get bullied in school...so do something with that. Yes, some big dudes have weak hearts...so do something with that. You could easily have a great movie centered on the Thing dealing with being the Thing and no longer looking human. You could even make it a buddy movie where it centers on Ben and Johnny. You don't always need a protagonist. And if you do use a protagonist, don't shoehorn him in for only ten minutes.

Post by **Kidpanda** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:00 pm

I watched Fast and the Furious 5 last night with the wife. As expected, scene to scene was heavily scripted. Everything played out just like you expect it to. Did I enjoy it? Not really, but I guess it's dumb cinema at its finest.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:49 am

I had just finished cleaning and repairing a projector for a client and had to test it out, so my wife picked out the 400ft cut of Cecil B. DeMille's Greatest Show on Earth. The cut shows random setup shots of the circus, then the climactic fall of Sebastien without the net. Not a great film, but there is something magical about the click of a projector. I have owned dozens of projectors from a 9.5mm to a 35mm, but an 8 or super8 Bell and Howell is something special and will always take me back to being a kid with my old man setting up the ragged screen and one of his many reels. Sure it is anachronistic way of viewing anything, but it is an experience locked in time.

Post by **nullPointer** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:48 pm

Luke wrote:They should have gone goofy or have made this a character piece. Yes, nerds get bullied in school...so do something with that. Yes, some big dudes have weak hearts...so do something with that. You could easily have a great movie centered on the Thing dealing with being the Thing and no longer looking human. You could even make it a buddy movie where it centers on Ben and Johnny. You don't always need a protagonist. And if you do use a protagonist, don't shoehorn him in for only ten minutes.

Totally (or at least sort of) this. I could totally watch a Fantastic Four movie that harkened back to 60's comic campiness. Something like X-Men: First Class except more fun. The Fantastic Four basically epitomize the silver age of comics ... so run with that. Embrace the goofy glories of the past rather than trying to recast F4 as something they're not. I think the mistake made with the latest Fantastic Four is that they tried to make it in the mold of every other super hero movie being churned out. These aren't the grim & gritty heroes you're looking for.

Post by **Ack** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:52 pm

nullPointer wrote:
Luke wrote:They should have gone goofy or have made this a character piece. Yes, nerds get bullied in school...so do something with that. Yes, some big dudes have weak hearts...so do something with that. You could easily have a great movie centered on the Thing dealing with being the Thing and no longer looking human. You could even make it a buddy movie where it centers on Ben and Johnny. You don't always need a protagonist. And if you do use a protagonist, don't shoehorn him in for only ten minutes.
Totally (or at least sort of) this. I could totally watch a Fantastic Four movie that harkened back to 60's comic campiness. Something like X-Men: First Class except more fun. The Fantastic Four basically epitomize the silver age of comics ... so run with that. Embrace the goofy glories of the past rather than trying to recast F4 as something they're not. I think the mistake made with the latest Fantastic Four is that they tried to make it in the mold of every other super hero movie being churned out. These aren't the grim & gritty heroes you're looking for.

No, it needs to be just the opposite, where you go so gritty and over the top that it comes back around to being funny because we're laughing at how stupid it is.

We need Fantastic Four: War Zone. I wanna see Reed Richard punch through some dude's face.

Post by **nullPointer** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:01 pm

Ack wrote:No, it needs to be just the opposite, where you go so gritty and over the top that it comes back around to being funny because we're laughing at how stupid it is.

We need Fantastic Four: War Zone. I wanna see Reed Richard punch through some dude's face.

Don't forget the part in which he overcomes his chronic bout of impotence thanks to the help of Sue Storm whilst in the back of the Fantasticar.

Oh wait ... (NSFW ... due to overwhelming pure corn)

Post by **Stark** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:28 pm

Man I hated Watchmen.

Post by **Luke** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:35 pm

Hey you. PUNISHER WAR ZONE was brilliant.

Beetlejuice II has been confirmed. Sort of. Again. For a third time.

I'm rebooted out, but I'll still give this a whirl.

Pitch:

From the makers of the Fast & the Furious, comes, ROAD RASH

Starring:

Ronda Rousey
Vin Diesel
Channing Tatum

w/cameos by:

Bow Wow
Either a jenner or kardashian
Katy Perry

Music by:

Katy Perry
Bow Wow
A jenner or a kardashian
Sia
Flo-Rida
Luda

Post by **Jrecee** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:05 pm

I'd be more excited about a Skitchin' movie. Or maybe they could cross it over with road rash.

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