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Kyriakos said:
I decided to try watching The Blob (1988)
I hope it isn't absolute garbage, but the trailer doesn't leave much hope.
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The original was good. 1988 is a remake and I have no comment.
 
I saw Midsommar and came to a startling conclusion.


I like A24's art direction and what not but loathe their plots. Their character arcs are cut short because, well, they die. I might be a meathead but stuff like the Green Room and the like is more up my alley for good plots and endings. FFS no one in this movie fought back in any way, shape, or form.
 
I'm behind the times but I just watched Interstellar, albeit I missed the first ~40 minutes

what a mind blower, I had to go read a review and explanation to get a better picture of what was going on.
 
Was at a 'bad movie night' yesterday with friends and one of the movies we watched was John Carter. The first 20-30 minutes make no sense but once John Carter actually gets to Mars the whole thing becomes a great pulpy adventure with some frankly outstanding visuals. If Disney had fixed the incoherent intro I think it would have done better than it did. It was clearly a labor of love for the people making it, just like Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
 
Berzerker said:
I'm behind the times but I just watched Interstellar, albeit I missed the first ~40 minutes

what a mind blower, I had to go read a review and explanation to get a better picture of what was going on.
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You should watch the whole thing if you get a chance. It's always near the top of the list for best sci fi movies ever, deservedly so.
Ajidica said:
Was at a 'bad movie night' yesterday with friends and one of the movies we watched was John Carter. The first 20-30 minutes make no sense but once John Carter actually gets to Mars the whole thing becomes a great pulpy adventure with some frankly outstanding visuals. If Disney had fixed the incoherent intro I think it would have done better than it did. It was clearly a labor of love for the people making it, just like Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
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I had a bad movie night too! I watched Jupiter Ascending and it was so bad it was great. It was a lot of fun, with hammy acting and a soylent green plot that didn't make a ton of sense. Oh and Channing Tatum was a wolf-man hybrid that roller bladed around the universe. Cheeky stuff.
 
Incidentally, @hobbsyoyo, I accidentally clicked on the link in your signature and got a blank "couldn't connect" page.
 
Arakhor said:
Incidentally, @hobbsyoyo, I accidentally clicked on the link in your signature and got a blank "couldn't connect" page.
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Damn I thought I removed all the links to that from my profile a while back but I guess I completely forgot it was in my signature. :( I'll delete it now, I haven't run the blog in years at this point. I really enjoyed it but it was costing me money to maintain (via subscriptions to various Adobe products I used for illustrations) and there came a point where I was working too many hours to work on it. It wasn't a lot of money but I didn't like paying for something I was not able to use so I just shut it down and never took it back up even when I had time.

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Hobbs & Shaw - I haven't followed the Fast & Furious franchise at all but the trailers made it look like a silly action movie with some macho humor thrown in. And yes, it had that so I can't say it was a disappointment but I've seen better action and heard funnier jokes.

Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse - I finally saw it and it was great. The voice acting, plot, humor, everything was top-notch but the art style really stood out to me. Probably the closest thing to getting a true comic book experience without actually reading a comic book.
 
hobbsyoyo said:
You should watch the whole thing if you get a chance. It's always near the top of the list for best sci fi movies ever, deservedly so.

I had a bad movie night too! I watched Jupiter Ascending and it was so bad it was great. It was a lot of fun, with hammy acting and a soylent green plot that didn't make a ton of sense. Oh and Channing Tatum was a wolf-man hybrid that roller bladed around the universe. Cheeky stuff.
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Jupiter Ascending was great fun, although the space battle sucked.

Kyriakos said:
We were talking about Interstellar. I don't even know what John Carter is :)
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John Carter is a Disney movie from a couple years ago based on the Princess of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs from the 30s. Unfortunately, it completely bombed at the box office, in part due to terrible advertising campaign* that did not make it clear what it was based on so it looked like a Star Wars knockoff. Plus, as I mentioned the first 20-odd minutes of the movie makes no sense whatsoever. Two people I was watching it with said they started it and got completely confused in the first 20 minutes so stopped watching it.

*All of the trailers were various shades of brown, brown, and browner.
 
Ajidica said:
Was at a 'bad movie night' yesterday with friends and one of the movies we watched was John Carter. The first 20-30 minutes make no sense but once John Carter actually gets to Mars the whole thing becomes a great pulpy adventure with some frankly outstanding visuals. If Disney had fixed the incoherent intro I think it would have done better than it did. It was clearly a labor of love for the people making it, just like Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
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Was it sanitised? Or did they leave in the racism inherent to all of Edgar Rice Burroughs' books?
 
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Or did they leave in the racism inherent to all of Edgar Rice Burroughs' books?
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Well, JC is essentially Superman-on-Mars (leaps tall buildings in a single bound!), due to his more physically demanding Earthling upbringing giving him super-strength compared to the Martian natives, and of course he's a white American who ends up being the King(?Prince Consort?) of Mars by marrying the sexy native princess, so there's that...
 
In the books, yes (I think I read them all when I was… 12?) but I haven't bothered to watch the Disney film.
 
Takhisis said:
Was it sanitised? Or did they leave in the racism inherent to all of Edgar Rice Burroughs' books?
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I didn't get any sense of racism in in the movie. (I mean, we can go all academic about how the whole 'epic white guy saves the day and gets the hot princess' trope has its roots in racist conceptions of different peoples, same with the orientalist/exotica setting. However, the movie was nowhere near as problematic as, say, 300.)
 
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