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1 hour ago, Rick said:

Sort of like the book "Watership Down?"

Well, I was thinking more 50 foot tall. 'The Rabbits that ate Paris'. Something like that.

Incidentally, over 40 years later, Ive still never seen watership down. Some trauma just cannot be endured.

 

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15 hours ago, Ssnake said:

Watership Down 2

The Rabbits Strike Back

There actually was a sequel! 

But to keep the joke going:

Watership Down 2: Reloaded

Speaking of animals with human voices, my priest and I just saw Strays and it was hysterical. I normally am not wild about raunch but this one did it well. Even the clean jokes were hysterical..  Jamie Foxx as the Boston Terrier stole the show. The Australian Shepherd was my other favorite.  Dog lovers have to watch it.

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Saw the Flash now that it's out on streaming.  Yeah... it's really bad.  Besides Keaton and some amazing one liners thrown in for comedic effect... just a terrible movie.  What really surprised me was how bad the CGI was.  I had heard there were some bad spots but basically it was every spot that was terrible.  I felt like I was watching a 00s PC game the CGI was so dated and noticeable.

The premise of the movie had potential... but the writing was atrocious.  Considering how 'meh' Marvel movies have been as of late this was a lost opportunity, for sure.

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The Flash is DC.

Also, even if these aren't all shining examples, the number of Hollywood movies that are not Marvel Cinematic Universe films since the series started vastly outnumbers the total MCU production. That's still true if you lump every superhero movie into the lot, and count every TV/streaming episode as a separate film, including adaptations like the Watchmen HBO series which don't really have anything to do with the rest.

That some Hollywood producers like to minimize financial risks with their preference for sequels, remakes, and reboots is maybe artistically deplorable, but in the end this still is a business first and foremost, and if the audience would pay big bucks for arthouse cinema, we'd get more arthouse films. But the audience seems to be wooed by AAA rollercoaster popcorn movies, so that's what they deliver.

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It may even be too late for Gunn to save the revamped DC launch.  The second Suicide Squad is one of the best superhero movies we've ever gotten... yet it bombed at the box office (to be fair it came out when COVID was still causing a mess with normal life so without seeing how it's done from streaming it's hard to say for sure).

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Gotta grudgingly thank FB for this. One of my favorite movies, Hard Times, featured James Coburn and Strother Martin. It turns out they worked together before, on "Have Gun - Will Travel" in 1959;

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0597555/

 

 

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Saw last Mission Impossible. A disappointment, senseless action scenes just to runup the minutes - specially the one in Rome- sparse dialogue and support narratives. The central idea was good but badly cooked.

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1 hour ago, Ssnake said:

...but is it worth my time?

The first one was fun. The ones afterward, welllll....

I saw the fourth film in the cinema. It was average I guess,. Not as good as the others.

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I saw one of them, the one where he has a contract put on him and he has to get out of new york in 24 hours. It was ok, but I dont really see what the enthusiasm was about. Maybe it had shot its bolt by then.

 

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8 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

I saw one of them, the one where he has a contract put on him and he has to get out of new york in 24 hours. It was ok, but I dont really see what the enthusiasm was about. Maybe it had shot its bolt by then.

 

That was the third one which is my favourite. 

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Only film I watched recently was Netflix's 'The Bombardment. I lasted 5 minutes. Car full of pretty redhead girls gets shredded by a Mosquito Mk6. Ok, such things sometimes happen in war, but whilst determining whether to continue watching it, I found that not only was it made up, but they credited it to one of the crew's who took part in Operation Carthage, a real airman, whose family were apopleptic that he was casually assigned as a committing a war crime. So they actually changed it after the premiere, but left in the gratuitious scene of a Mosquito casually gunning down a civilian car.

Its too bad really, its something im reading about at the moment, and there DOES need to be a film made about it. But if they are just making shit up on the fly, I dont see the point watching it.

Saw Bennedict Cumberbatch playing Greville Wynne (Oleg Penkovsky's contact) in Netflix's 'The Courier. Pretty good, even though they played around with the history a little bit, its a good bit of cold war drama.

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On 10/14/2023 at 8:45 AM, Sardaukar said:

Nobody is still my recent favourite.

 

Russian gangsters harassing civvies on an Inner City Bus??

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It's an episode within that movie, where mostly the Russian mob gets harrassed. Of course, there are still more ludricrous elements in it than I care listing. But for mental switch-off cinema with an actor mostly known for his comedic talents - not too bad.

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1 hour ago, Ssnake said:

It's an episode within that movie, where mostly the Russian mob gets harrassed. Of course, there are still more ludricrous elements in it than I care listing. But for mental switch-off cinema with an actor mostly known for his comedic talents - not too bad.

Totally understand,  but the obvious whitewashing  and race swapping of the urban ferals is....bothersome 

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