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Post by Felix on Jun 20, 2021 14:02:51 GMT -8
As soon as I saw the preview showing him giving a bath to his mom, I was out :-)
I don't care about the Joker that much, lol :-)
There's probably a good number of people who should see it,
but I also completely understood the message it was trying to say without sitting through the movie to get it.
Society is sick, and the Joker (who represents a narcissistic psychopath) is a product of society.
And if we don't change the way we live with each other, expect more Jokers (narcissistic psychopaths) to emerge from society.
But I also skipped Aquaman, Justice League, that Harley Quinn movie and Wonder Woman 1984.
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Post by Swindle on Jun 20, 2021 15:15:51 GMT -8
Aquaman - The character never really made a mark, so making it female fantasy and also at the same time he's a bro kind of guy with Jason Momoa was a clever decision.
Justice League - Product of studio interference. Its unremarkable. The Flash sucks in it is my main take away. Can't speak to Zack's cut of the movie because I have yet to put down to get back in on HBO Max.
Harley Quinn - Haven't seen it either as I find this live action version.. .slightly off putting? I think this liberated woman shtick heavy handed and stale. The most enduring thing about her was the costuming from Suicide Squad.
Wonder Woman 1984 - probably the most disappointing comic movie I've seen in quite some time. It is watchable as bizarre things are always going on as the wishes ramp up, but its not good. Also, there's no Wonder Woman it seems for quite some time. Gal is lovely to look at as always, though.
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Post by Bravo on Jun 20, 2021 17:32:27 GMT -8
The parts of Aquaman I liked were the unapologetically ridiculous stuff played straight like Black Manta's costume, weird sea critter people, Atlantian tech. I'm tired of heroes with some sort of parental issues, though.
Justice League was forgettable in the long run. The CG villain stank. If you can't come with a decent villain, your comic book movie is gonna fail on some level.
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Post by Felix on Jun 21, 2021 1:02:06 GMT -8
Leto's Joker seems more like he is Jokers son.
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Post by Felix on Jun 27, 2021 20:32:49 GMT -8
Black Summer
It's a low budget zombie TV show on netflix. 2 seasons, It was pretty good!
1st season is kind of being tossed into the middle of an evacuation in a city, and well everything goes bad.
2nd season, the survivors are out in the wilderness, fighting each other for supply drops.
Also watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
If you enjoy westerns, this is worth a look-see.
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Post by Swindle on Jul 18, 2021 4:37:23 GMT -8
Saw Black Widow last night at the theater.
So, ScarJo is not just the star, but also the executive producer, so she gets a bonus check for her final MCU appearance. There's a bit of bitterness in this because the undercurrent is "We were never family, you all suck." As their 'family' was a three year undercover mission when Black Widow is a tween.
The biggest issue with this movie is Black Widow is on the run, wants to hide, 'quit' as it takes during Civil War, so between 40 mins after she betrays Team Iron Man to the Cap end scene in Civil War where he breaks the Avengers out of prison. This isn't fun spy stuff. Black Widow is given a lot of guilt for things, mainly how she failed her 'sister'. The undercover mission lasted 3 years, her fake sister was 6, so she was 3 when it started. Yelena was being handed off to the red room training after it ended, flash forward, ScarJo gets out, becomes a celeb spy hanging with Avengers, while Yelena is stuck being a Widow under the thumb of the Red Room.
I think we get for the first time an opening credits scene which is perhaps the darkest thing in an MCU movie, which spotlights the human trafficking that goes on with these girls, all with a cover of Smells like Teen Spirit (so also a first major cover in a MCU movie also?). I have to wonder about parents and their young kids seeing this movie. This scene feels like something from another movie. It is dark.
Yelena tells them all at one point, it was real for me, it was the only family I knew.
Yelena as an adult gets all the best lines, she's the one who drives Black Widow to take finish off the Red Room and its very much about handing the BW legacy off to her. I do think she's a strong character and well acted. She plays well off with her 'big sister' and their relationship is enduring because those sibling beats are hard to mess up.
Plot is fairly simple... team up with Yelena, get 'dad', go find 'mom', 'family' reunion, go to the Red Room and put an end to it. David Harbour plays the bumbling dad with super strength. Reachel Weisz is 'mom.' Then you have this guy Dreykov who may be the single must unredeemable marvel villain. A very on the nose Harvey Weinstein/Jeffrey Epstein type. At one points calls his use of young girls in the Widow program as recycling the trash.
The movie is very workman like. It sets up the payoff threads and all the character beats make sense, and you get the big MCU third act. Is it about woman empowerment? Is it about family? Is it about working to deal with guilt? All three? I do think the knock is Black Widow herself is kind of putting herself aside for the sake of her sister, so how much you like this movie really depends on if you are fine with her being upstaged by what is a new character for coming MCU attractions.
I do think its solid. 3 out of 4 stars, but I do think it could have reached for perhaps a half a star more if Black Widow could have had more chance to shine. By comparison I would give Capt Marvel 2 1/2 stars out of 4.
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Post by Felix on Jul 18, 2021 20:07:44 GMT -8
I never watched Captain Marvel. Kind of weird because I wanted to see it.
I'm sure I will give Black Widow a watch at some point. I watch most movies Scarlet's in ;-)
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Post by Bravo on Jul 18, 2021 22:48:12 GMT -8
I lost respect for ScarJo when she married that SNL weenie.
Okay, I would see Black Widow at a theater, but pandemic and to heck with Disney. We know why...canceling the new Duck Tales. Also, everything else.
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Post by Swindle on Jul 19, 2021 2:13:22 GMT -8
I was listening to a review and one person was put off by the movie because again, it isn't the celebration of Black Widow he expected and instead the backdoor intro of Yelena. He did make two points concerning the third act I do think has merit. Who ends the main villain and also there's a lack of stakes because you never feel like anyone is in real danger despite the scummy reality of the Red Room. So, if my feelings on Yelena were more sour, it could easily slip down to a lower rating. Maybe I'm too easily manipulated by Disney MCU product (but I did find Falcon Winter Solider mini-series on Plus boring and muddled, so I don't think I'm just a shameless consumer... hmmm).
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Post by Swindle on Jul 20, 2021 17:47:07 GMT -8
So I watched Spiral - From the book of Saw
From the Saw torture porn movies. One issue this series has had is you never really could top John Kramer/Jigsaw as you lead. This movie has Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson and one thing they will bring is they will go big in their performances. The traps are fairy simple and easy to beat, actually, but the hitch is the sacrifices those traps insist on. This isn't quite the same MO as Jigsaw, where this one is more an believer in Spiral as a concept, using Jigsaw's tactics to set about evolution/change. Chris Rock is a figure in this as the good cop who's had to look over his back because he exposed a dirty cop way back when. Its very watchable. Not sure where I'd place it in Saw movie rankings, but its well made for what it is. The twist and who was the person behind all this, a tad too easy to figure out. I do think this was well cast and the premise is interesting, the problem is the script doesn't live up to those two things.
2 1/2 star out of 4. For fans of the genre only.
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Post by Felix on Jul 24, 2021 13:29:36 GMT -8
American Assassin
Good realistic action movie start to finish.
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Post by Bravo on Aug 1, 2021 15:53:21 GMT -8
Watched the documentary What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from a couple of years ago. Free on yahoo with ads (blocked the ads  ) Not recommended unless you were a big fan of the series. Rather cringy at times. Anytime you insert "random" fans on the street to comment for example. We don't give a fudge about them. Stick to the people who made the show. |
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Post by Swindle on Aug 1, 2021 17:57:04 GMT -8
I never saw much of Deep Space Nine as when it aired, it was on in the middle of the night in my area. I know its regarded as one of the better Trek series, but it might be a case of not having the drive to slog through the Trek-formula even if it is better than most.
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Post by Bravo on Aug 17, 2021 1:37:17 GMT -8
So, saw THE SUICIDE SQUAD, because it fit my schedule and there was only one Snake-Eyes showing that was after mantinee hours.
Okay, it far better than SUICIDE SQUAD (the original). There's a tonal shift, the original was DCEU gritty look but overall still Pg-13 action. The sequel (and it is a sequel) is mostly during the day time, a lot more humour and the violence goes past R-level graphic into horror level. Not an exaggeration. It got too much for my tastes at times. Oh, and a mother and her two kids were in the row in front of me...kids had to be under ten. Yet, they seemed fine...I wouldn't have been at that age. And most of the people the Squad are killing are normal humans. This movie has a high body count.
There's a lot of characters. Bloodsport is just a redone Deadshot, though I like Bloodsport better and it was the right call not to recast Deadshot. King Shark is like a more violent and stupider killer Croc. Harley Quinn is so overpowered (yes, she has no super powers, but...) here it's absurd, fun but absurd. Rick Flag and Captain Boomerang are back, too and so is Amanda Waller. Flag never mentions his formerly possessed girl friend from the first movie.
The movie works better because, the set-up is faster, they aren't just walking around a deserted city for half the film. There's no Joker subplot. And the stakes of the mission seems lower...until later.
I'd say it's like the DEADPOOL movies of DC.
I would give it 7/10. It's hard to judge since I haven't sat down and watched a real movie in a long time. I do think the violence went a bit overboard and that maybe it's too predictable after a point.
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Post by Bravo on Sept 8, 2021 21:48:35 GMT -8
Marvel's What If...?
Only watched Episodes 3 and 5, since they sounded most interesting. Not bad. Not all the movie actors returned to do voices.
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) Not recommended unless you were a big fan of the series. Rather cringy at times. Anytime you insert "random" fans on the street to comment for example. We don't give a fudge about them. Stick to the people who made the show.