Which movies have you watched? XVI - This title not included in your subscription

[EgonSpengler]

That's it... So I pick up the ball and throw it to Naturally?

No, you throw the ball to Who.

 

[Sommerswerd]

No, you throw the ball to Who.

Naturally. That's it.

Also... Jackie Robinson's number is 42... so I agree? I guess?

 

[Takhisis]

Jackie Robinson's number is 42

Mind. Blown.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Mind. Blown.

Well to add... because of this... the number is officially retired by the entire MLB, so no player is allowed to wear it, and all stadiums feature it as a retired number.

 

[tjs282]

there was a THGTTG TV show in the 80s

Yes, based on the radio-series broadcast in the late 70s, and the books that Adams wrote after the radio-show aired. The TV show follows the radio-plot more closely than it does the books, skipping straight from Magrathea to The Restaurant ATEOTU (with none of that dangerous mucking-about on the Frogstar worlds in between...).

And of course the movie was yet another animal...

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, japanese horror movies are strange. I am watching a third one (Creepy), and wonder if it is actually possible to use a fork to cut into the spine of someone, and then also cut another person's throat (maybe it is not what happened/ a delusion, but I will have to keep watching)

 

[EgonSpengler]

I watched the first half of The Terminal (2004) last night. It's about as mild a film as I think I've ever seen, even by Steven Spielberg's standards. It's about a guy who gets stranded inside an international airport because a military coup in his fictional Eastern European country invalidates his passport and visa, but it's not a heart-wrenching drama. It's amusing, but not laugh-out-loud funny. It's about the least-gripping thing I've ever seen, yet still wanted to watch. It's got a great cast: Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci and Catherine Zeta-Jones were the names on the posters, but there's also Diego Luna and Zoe Saldana before they were stars. Fans of US & Canadian television will also recognize Barry Shabaka-Henley, Chi McBride, Corey Reynolds, Guillermo Diaz, Kenneth Choi, Cas Anvar, and Conrad Pla. Possibly the most interesting thing about the whole movie is that, because Spielberg couldn't convince any airports to let him take over their space for filming, the entire airport in the movie is one gigantic set, constructed inside an unused airline hangar.

 

[Birdjaguar]

^^^ I enjoyed it way back when.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Godzilla v. Kong - Watched with wife and kids. Usually we would wait for the weekend rather than a school night for something like this but kids were super excited to see it.

Was literally exactly what you would expect with no deviation whatsoever. CGI palooza... nonstop Crash Boom Roar! ... Perfectly fine for what it was and delivered as expected. I only fell asleep once... for the main fight between Godzilla and Kong I woke up for the ending. Wife slept straight through the end. Kids loved it. They're still excitedly talking about it as I type even though they're supposed to be in bed.

SPOILER ALERT: No Easter Egg at the end. Kids were very displeased about that... I dont think its hyperbole to say they were outraged ... it was adorable

 

[thecrazyscot]

Well it took us 4 nights of non-sequential viewing, but we finally slogged our way through the rest of Zack Snyder's Justice League.

Wasn't worth it.

 

[Takhisis]

Pineapple Express. Heheheh. Heh.

 

[Kyriakos]

Creepy (2016) was really bad. Failed movies are failed.
Tbh, this japanese director seems to only have had a decent movie in the late... 90s. So that's no surprise.

 

[r16]

opened the TV channel to discover Topgun . Almost at the spot where Maverick develops target fixation on Viper , abandons Hollywood , allowing Jester to kill everyone . The significance of the scene is me being a plain plane nut and moving into the movie theater halfway during the session and the first thing ı see is this really 10 feet tall Tomcat screaming around . ln 1988 . With the thing that movies coming late to Turkey . There was an American exchange kid in my class ; that delay allowed him to watch it for the 17th time . At 4 or 5 times (in theater) ı have impossible odds to catch up and of course ı know like every plane scene and it is a movie and stuff . And ı didn't like Tom Cruise in 1988 either ; specifically through this depiction of Maverick thing . Especially frowning last night , upon throwing the dogtags of Goose into the ocean , why , found a better partner at last ? Egoism , being the center of universe ? Oh , they are quite realistic though , for an "average" fighter pilot .

also saw the end to Apocopo Now thing . lf there wasn't a book , ı would just say it was competition between US institutions with Kurtz taking a greater share than allotted for the on-the-spot person for drug production . And ı really doubt he was begging Willard to kill him , more of a thing to his conversion as run by the photographer guy . "Great" luck for the movie company that Manson existed to show the public that such stuff happened and otherwise very reasonable people can be broken , their attempt to covering themselves from "backlash" with the newspaper page about Manson creating a power to the movie , or something . And White Man's god complex , with savages bending the knee , you know being savages and helpless . ln real life things that would happen to Willard at the end would have included the option of some amount of dynamite and a burning fuse .

 

[Laurana Kanan]

We also decided to watch Godzilla vs. Kong tonight instead of waiting for the weekend. It was, as expected, ridiculously campy. I have to say, that overall, it didn't even hurdle the incredibly low bar I'd set for it. Mild spoilers, I guess, to follow.

I mean, you go in expecting a ridiculous storyline and over-the-top acting. The real viewing attraction is the intense action/fight scenes between the Titans. Unfortunately, even that part of the movie was sub-par. It felt like instead of sizing Kong up they down-sized Godzilla. The two main fights in the ocean and Hong Kong also felt like CG rendered gaming cutscenes. Godzilla, Kong, & the mystery third participant all appeared to move way too fast, they didn't carry the same weight/presence from the previous movies.

A few more random thoughts:

• Godzilla is almost always powered up now, with almost no charging time. Boo!
• Millie Bobby Brown's character's storyline is basically superfluous until the very end and results in a hackneyed plot element. Her companions were soooo annoying.
• Her father from the previous film got a whole 2 minutes or so of worthless time. Seriously, why was he even there.
• Where are all the other Titans from the previous film?
• So Kong's people were intelligent and industrious enough to create huge stone throne rooms and powered battle axes...?
• I still don't get the power source MacGuffin. Apex didn't physically need it. Only needed to, what? Analyze it, in order to make a copy?
• Two positive notes: The sci-fi tech elements, which were pretty cool. And, the Hollow Earth itself looked visually stunning.

After it was over, our family's consensus was that in retrospect it wouldn't have been worth seeing in the theater, even on $5 Tuesdays ~ 4 out of 10.

 

[Sommerswerd]

It felt like instead of sizing Kong up they down-sized Godzilla. The two main fights in the ocean and Hong Kong also felt like CG rendered gaming cutscenes. Godzilla, Kong, & the mystery third participant all appeared to move way too fast, they didn't carry the same weight/presence from the previous movies.

I also expected them to just make Kong way bigger, because that's what they usually do, but it seemed like they only made Kong a little bigger and instead made Godzilla way smaller. I actually liked the water fight scene with the warships, because it showcased how Godzilla is really a water animal and basically invincible fighting in the water. I slept through most of the Hong Kong fight so maybe I will go back and watch it again to compare.

So Kong's people were intelligent and industrious enough to create huge stone throne rooms and powered battle axes...?

Yeah, when Kong approached the temple, or whatever that was, I was thinking "Wait... who the eff made this?? Giant ape ancestors? Were they like, giant "Planet of the Apes", apes? And even assuming they were... Why was the door so big/tall? That scene reminded me of LotR when Gimli goes back to the Mines of Moria. As far as the battle axe goes... one of my children pointed out to me that the axe was made with a Kong-ape bone, embedded with a Godzilla-lizard spine/fin. That's why it was able to be charged with Godzilla power... OK whatever, I'll allow it

I will add that the inclusion of a disabled character (deaf/mute) and actually integrating that into a major plot-point (ie making her disability into an asset) was different and actually pretty cool.

Finally... Seeing Mecha-Godzilla was cool. Growing up I had the NES game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters so I got to play with, and fight all the Titans (minus Kong) including Mecha-Godzilla, who was IIRC, the ultimate/final Boss in the game.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

As far as the battle axe goes... one of my children pointed out to me that the axe was made with a Kong-ape bone, embedded with a Godzilla-lizard spine/fin. That's why it was able to be charged with Godzilla power... OK whatever, I'll allow it

Huh, they have a good eye. We totally missed that.

Apparently, there was also something of a Michelangelo among Kong's ancestors.

I will add that the inclusion of a disabled character (deaf/mute) and actually integrating that into a major plot-point (ie making her disability into an asset) was different and actually pretty cool.

Definitely! She was adorable and did a fantastic job. I was just reading that she comes from an all-deaf family going back four generations on her father's side.

Finally... Seeing Mecha-Godzilla was cool.

I was confused with Mechagodzilla. When Apex lost control, was it because the AI part of the system became self aware, or was it some kind of residual presence of Ghidorah?

 

[Kyriakos]

I was confused with Mechagodzilla. When Apex lost control, was it because the AI part of the system became self aware, or was it some kind of residual presence of Ghidorah?

Analyzing this movie is probably not a good idea ^_^

 

[Sommerswerd]

When Apex lost control, was it because the AI part of the system became self aware, or was it some kind of residual presence of Ghidorah?

I think that was the part where I was asleep. I will have to go back and rewatch. Its funny because when Kong destroys him, I was wondering what happened to the guy who was driving... now I know

 

[r16]

due to production issues of putting a guy into an heavy suit and getting him to smoke so that the monster could be breathing out smoke , the Godzillas have increased in size over time , especially when CGl was available . Though both Godzilla and King Kong are supposed to be characters wronged by humans , why are they fighting again ? And of course aliens , who created maintainable assets for Kongs to fight other alien intrusions , so that Kong could have more time to chase blondes .

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Though both Godzilla and King Kong are supposed to be characters wronged by humans , why are they fighting again?

Superhero trope like Batman v. Superman. First our heroes fight each other, then team-up to destroy a mutual enemy, finally coming to a truce in the aftermath. Probably the most predictable plot point of the whole movie.