Movie Discussion Thread

I saw Incredibles 2 last night and thought it was wonderful.

The characters are super heroes but the superheroing is a backdrop. The actual superhero plotline is simple and predictable, but that's really not what the movie is about. The movie focuses more on the relationships between a family and friends and, I thought, did so in a really nice way. The handling of Mr. Incredible especially was really great. I appreciated seeing a movie that was able to portray strong female character/s without resorting to making the male characters around them out to be dopes. This is especially nice to see out of a Disney movie (Looking at you TLJ).

In a lot of places this is a Very visually attractive movie, beautifully designed, and was also one of the funniest movies I've seen in a while.

Thumbs up from me!

 

To shift pace a bit, just watched Punisher S01 and I have to say... WOW. Simply WOW. And the same story goes for Preacher, albeit less so.

 

Punisher and season 1 of Jessica Jones are the only 2 worth watching, IMO. The Purple Man is a twisted bastard and I love it, but what can you expect when the best Dr. Who ever plays your antagonist. (I'm going to catch flak for that comment, I bet.)

DD was... meh, ok I guess. Vincent D'Onofrio made that entire season work, which doesn't speak well of all the other storytelling that goes on IMO.

Luke Cage just drags on and on after that thing happens to Cottonmouth. (Trying not to spoil anything here.) Luke Cage season 2 was a snooze fest.

Iron Fist / Defenders... I'm at a loss for words on how bad they were.

That's my take on them, anyway.

 

I liked DD1, and JJ1 and LC1 in a lot of spots. I ran out of gas on JJ2 and IF1 was a write off. The Defenders was background noise that I didn't love or hate for what it was. I've cancelled Netflix as there just isn't enough good content for me to keep it.

 

Luke Cage season 1 is really good though, and not because of Luke Cage. He is surrounded by strong supporting cast: Cottonmouth, Mariah, and Pop. Luke Cage himself is rather boring. I'd take Cottonmouth over him. Even Bushmaster is a more interesting persona.

 

Isn't this a movie discussion thread?

 

Are you willing to be the one who starts the "Netflix/Marvel Uber Miniseries Megathread"? LOL

 

Abso

Absolutely not, though I have thoughts...

Taking the little one to see Incredibles 2 today and fully expect to have a good time.

My more recent film was The Florida Project. Very well done and absolutely heart breaking.

 

Anyone watched 'Hereditary' yet? Pretty good horror movie. I watched a great deal of horrors since I was a kid. So, storyline was a bit predictable, but acting is really good, especially Toni Collette.

Best horror movie I watched recenty is still 'Annabelle: Creation (2017)'. Anybody who loves getting scared shitless like me should watch that.

 

I didn't like Hereditary, the buildup was just too long. I wish the whole movie was more like the last 30 minutes.

Anyway I saw Sicario 2 and it was pretty good! No spoilers but if anything it's even more violent than the first. thumbs up

 

Yeah? My couz just told me an hour ago that it is good. Gotta find time to catch that soon.

 

I saw Wind River tonight. Pretty good. 8/10.

It's a movie where Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch pretend to be regular humans and solve crimes in Wyoming. It's cold there.

I liked it.

 

I thought u were serious abt hawkeye and scarlet witch part lol. That would be pure awesom-ness.

f**k good...or f**k bad?

 

LOL. The only good transformer for me was the 1st one. The rest are action-packed disaster.

 

MI6 was a damn good action film.

It was on course for being THE great action film for me, but the last 1/4-ish of the film kinda put the brakes on that. The action sequences are just incredible here. The cinematography is next level stuff, in the sense that I've not quite seen anything like this before. The film score by Lorne Balfe was tremendous. There's a very obvious resemblance in flavor to TDKR, the Zimmer-esque touch.

But the ending... well the film is a fairly gruelling 2.5 hours long. Dare I say it could have benefited from an extra 15 minutes or so? The film tethers on the edge of (though not quite hitting) an over-convoluted plot that could well have done with some breathing space to unravel, and the rushed ending was what eventually put it over the brink. Pacing suffered because of this as well.

The ending itself was strangely 'straightforward' and a notch less exciting as compared to the rest of the film. Just a tad anticlimactic I guess. It also somewhat resembled a cliffhanger leading to a next episode - a number of loose ends and loose character arcs that should have been better (or at least more delicately) resolved.

Other than that, there were several flickers of shoddy script-writing and editing, but that's all really.

All in all, an extremely enjoyable film that is equally as good as it is a 'what could have been'.

 

Anyone the The Drop? Tom Hardy. Awesome movie. Done very well, great camera work. Excellent plot/story line.

 

@Warrior , welcome back!