Black Panther is sooooo good! Loved every minute of it.
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Black Panther is sooooo good! Loved every minute of it.
I'm really buzzing with anticipation that this movie will be a good lead-in to Avengers Infinity War.Quote:
Originally Posted by ILikeSoundwave
I'm waiting for the 2 of biggest movies of the year, Infinity War and Deadpool 2. Josh Brolin gonna have a big pay this year haha
Same. Its similar to those other future dystopian fantasy movies hunger games and divergent/insurgent in theme. Nothing new to the segment but good popcorn fare.Quote:
Originally Posted by shockNwave
Looking forward to black panther@!!!!
Saw black panther. Its a bit over hyped. Still very awesome like any other of the mcu movies. So much cgi now compensating the action scenes. The combining of african culture with hi tech gave it an individual look. Good black people fighting bad black people instead of white really. The baddie has some background so it makes him more deminsional than others. Acting was good and what you expect from such mcu movies. Highly rate it if you enjoy marvel movies. Not much to see after credits. Great waste of time eating popcorn film. 8/10 stars
Saw Black Panther yesterday and what a progressive, outside the square piece of work to fit along side Thor Ragnarok. If this movie was made in the 70's it would be filed under b-grade and blaxploitation. Thankfully it wasn't.:D
Saw Passion Play (2010?) a while back. Still debating who had more work done. Mickey Rouke or Megan Fox.
Finally able to watch the directors cut of Nightbreed. The original release was butchered thanks to producers sticking their noses into the creative process. This is 20mins longer all up but 45mins of alternate and extra footage that was originally cut. This version is waaaaaaaaaay better. Was a great story by Clive Barker
I love this movie :cool: :cool: I remember seeing the poster up in our local video store but was too young at the time to watch it. Funny thing is, my cousins hired out Hellraiser 1 & 2 but my parents didn't have a problem with me watching that :p (or perhaps they trusted my older cousins too much not to question them about the movie choice). IIRC, the original Hellraiser (and Texas Chainsaw Massacre) were banned in QLD.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
I read the book. Then wandering around Big W I saw the dvd and was like "They made a movie?" So instantly bought. Watched it and thought it was crap. This version however, worth the 70 odd bucks I paid for it. Though the BD disc I think is coded incorrectly and doesn't wanna play. At least it came with the DVD version too. I've had this set for years unable to watch until I bought a new player the other dayQuote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
Tbh I haven't seen any Hellraisers yet, on my to watch list. Wonder why your parents didn't have issue with you watching them lol
Haven't read Cabal AKA Nightbreed but I'm impressed there's a director's cut.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
Although I wish The Great and Secret Show would be made into a movie because Weaveworld certainly won't be.:(
There's been a bootleg labelled the "Cabal Cut" been floating around for some time which included alot of deleted footage that was found. Once the original footage was found, Clive gave the go ahead to remaster it and do a proper releaseQuote:
Originally Posted by shockNwave
If you, or anyone else for that matter, have Netflix, and are a fan of Hans Zimmer, they have recently released a live concert called “Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague” where Hans performs some of his most famous scores with a full live orchestra. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the music in movies or just music in general really. Absolutely stellar performances. Oh and don’t forget to crank it up loud :)Quote:
Originally Posted by shockNwave
I forked out $140 to see Hans Zimmer live at Rod Laver Arena last year and it's like no other concert I've experienced. He's the best composer and the only composers that come close to him are a duo called Two Steps From Hell.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Meister
If it was anything like this one in Prague then it was money well spent!. Totally agree he is one of the best composers going round and is responsible for so many of the memorable favourites.Quote:
Originally Posted by shockNwave
Just checked out the trailer for the Live in Prague DVD/Bluray and that's enough to tell me what I got at Rod Laver Arena is like what Hans gave to Prague. Any differences would have to be trivial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meister
Just watched John Wick 2. Not quite as good as the first but still mighty entertaining.
Same here, is becoming a bit repetitive for me and he looks cornered soon with everyone hunting him all because of rules he has to break.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
Still beats The Last Jedi for me any day though.
The fight choreography is definitely better than The Last Jedi.Quote:
Originally Posted by drifand
Recently saw 12 Strong and loved it so much I need to read the book. Last time I watched a movie and then read the book was with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Caught the first 30 minutes of Annihilation on Netflix before I had to sleep. Very hard to turn it off - absolutely amazing so far. If you like your sci-fi cerebral, it’s a must watch.
(If you’re not aware, a bizarre rights agreement as well as politics between 2 of the producers and the movie studio lead this film to have a theatrical release limited to the US, released on Netflix simultaneously worldwide.)
On Saturday I went to see the new Tomb Raider movie and it was a good, quick and compact thrill ride. I choose to say this because after having seen the play through of the PS3 reboot (which the movie is based on) there's more depth to the game due to the much longer running time allowing for lengthier development of Lara's character. In the movie she doesn't start off as a naive helpless flower like she does in the game.
Saw Black Panther yesterday. Just some quick thoughts... (spoilers)
* Overall a good movie, although not excellent IMHO.
* Killmonger (N'Jadaka) is a great villain! Unlike so many other villains we get to understand his motivations. He's not just a one dimensional threat for the hero to overcome. And ultimately... he's not entirely wrong. And he even convinces T'Challa to see his POV and of course the film ends with him opening Wakanda up to the outside world, which was part of Killmonger's (and his father's) dream. The main difference being that T'Challa is pursuing peaceful cooperation and alliances with other nations instead of attempting to conquer them. But this also means that Killmonger is the agent which drives T'Challa's character development.
* lol at the "Tolkien" Whites. :p I gotta say that Martin Freeman did a top notch job as that CIA agent.
* As visually exciting as the car-chase scene was, story-wise it was kinda unnecessary. You could omit that scene and nothing would change in the story. Killmonger could still return to Wakanda with the body of Klause. Claus. Gollum... and still do all the same things (e.g. challenge T'Challa for the throne etc.). Yeah, it's exciting to watch, but not essential to the story. And if people are going to criticise the Canto-Bite/Casino scene in Star Wars The Last Jedi for doing the exact same thing, then I think it's only fair that the Korean car chase scene in Black Panther be viewed with similar scrutiny. Because in both scenes, the plot just stalls.
* T'Challa's character arc is interesting. Much like characters like Superman, Captain America, Wonder Woman and indeed, Optimus Prime, T'Challa starts off as a pretty high end character. He's doesn't suffer from childhood trauma or is trying to deal with personal character flaws etc. - this makes him stand out from a lot of other heroes. Unfortunately this means that T'Challa kinda lacks character development for the first half of the movie. It's not until later when he learns the truth about his uncle (Prince N'Jobu) and his cousin (N'Jadaka) that T'Challa is forced to question and revise his personal world view and moral universe. So the character of T'Challa becomes much more interesting in the latter half of the film as we follow him on this journey, but he's kinda plain in the first half.
* At times the movie felt too dark. Like when T'Challa and Killmonger were fighting in the Vibranium mine, both wearing Black Panther suits in the dark. Kinda hard to see what was happening in detail. The ritual fights at the waterfall looked much better as the scene was lit well enough to show us what was happening. Even the car chase in Korea was better lit with all the street lights in Busan.
* I felt that the movie could've benefited from a bit more humour at times - although the humour that we did get was cool. I liked the sibling rivalry between T'Challa and Shuri was great, and I loved the scene where M'Baku played on the racial stereotype of Africans being barbaric cannibals, only to laugh and say, "We're vegetarians." :D lol!
* Love the character of Shuri. The character would easily rival Tony Stark! :eek: I think she's only meant to be 16 years old. At this age, MCU Tony Stark won the MIT annual robot design award and at 17 he graduated MIT top of his class. Shuri appears to be working full time, implying that she's already finished her schooling. And a robot? Look at all the cool stuff she's invented! She's like Q from James Bond! :D But I also love how she's still a child at heart, like the way that she immaturely flips the bird at T'Challa or how she tells him that she was expecting to be taken to Disneyland. :)
Overall a thoroughly enjoyable film, especially given how young the director is. I haven't seen Coogler's other films but I've heard good things about them. Coogler does seem to have a lot of potential as a young and upcoming film-maker. :)
I rented Justice League on DVD and finally got to watch it. Thrice (just gettin' my money's worth out of a 1 night rental :p)
Thoughts...
* Overall much better than BvS - they've clearly learnt some lessons, which is good. Most importantly - make films enjoyable.
* Steppenwolf is a completely disposable and forgettable villain. Unlike Killmonger in Black Panther, Justice League doesn't give audiences any reason to really care about Steppenwolf or his quest. He's basically just a monster who wants to do bad things and the goodies have to stop him before the badness happens.
* Really great performances from the whole cast. I can't fault any of their acting, pretty top notch stuff.
* This movie suffers from introducing half of the team in the movie. It means that the story has to occasionally provide expositions for these new characters, but at the same time it also sacrifices a lot of that exposition because of time constraints.
* Having said that, Marvel has proven that you can provide decent exposition to new character without making them poor. Let's compare the introduction of Spider-Man in Captain America Civil War vs the introduction of The Flash in Justice League. The Flash is basically introduced to us as some bored unemployed super-powered kid who immediately agrees to join the Justice League because he has no friends and literally nothing better to do. :eek: Spider-Man on the other hand agrees to join the Avengers because basically with great power comes great responsibility. Peter Parker feels a great sense of moral obligation to fight baddies, which is essentially the same as Tony Stark's motivation. Hence Stark can really empathise with Parker. Wayne's reaction to Barry Allen's acceptance is, "Uh... okay... I'll try to keep up." And with such little intrinsic motivation, it makes it harder for The Flash to find his footing - as seen when he freaks out at the sight of Steppenwolf and Batman's directive is, "Just save one." A big difference to how Iron Man prepped Spider-Man and used him more effectively ("Underoos!"). Spider-Man wasn't there to evacuate civilians, he joined in the actual fight and even helped to take down Giant Man just like in that old timey movie, The Empire Strikes Back. :p
* I never even knew that Henry Cavill had grown a moustache, but when I saw this movie I immediately knew that there was something wrong with his face in some shots. I could tell that it had been digitally modified, but I didn't know why. The fact that without knowing this story, I was still able to easily spot it, shows just how poorly the CG shave was. But IMO the director for MI:3 was being penile. They needed to reshoot some scenes because Snyder chose to step down and was replaced by Joss Whedon due to a horrific personal tragedy in Snyder's life that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. :( Cut Warner Bros some slack and let Cavill have a shave for crying out loud! You can always attach a false prosthetic moustache on his face when he returned for shooting MI:3. Adding a fake moustache has got to be much easier and cheaper than removing it. Apparently the CGI shave cost them US$25 million. Even if the fake moustache looks a bit different, fans would learn the reason why and easily forgive you. Many other actors and actresses have used fake hair because it was cut or shaved for other roles. e.g. Karen Gillan and Matt Smith had their heads shaved for Guardians of the Galaxy and Terminator Genesis (or however that stupid misspelling is) respectively, so they wore wigs for when shooting the end of Doctor Who. Heck, if I were Whedon/WB I would have offered to pay MI:3's production staff the cost of using a prosthetic moustache... it would have to be cheaper than US$25M.
* Cyborg looked... eh. As Honest Trailer describes it, like a laser pointer covered in aluminium foil. We finally see his look get upgraded at the end and... why didn't they just make him look like that to begin with?!? :eek: That'd be like having Iron Man walk around in his shoddy desert-cave built Mk I armour for the entirety of the first Iron Man film only have him upgrade to the "hot rod red" armour during the epilogue. Why? And Cyborg really felt like an underused and underdeveloped character. He's pretty much just... there. A walking plot convenience rather than a person. :/
* Why does that Russian city only have one family living in it? Or do they only care about saving that one family? Did the others all die? If so, how did only this one family survive? Surely that ironing board leaned up against the window can't be that strong! :o
* Loved how they incorporated elements of Michael Keaton's Batman theme and Christopher Reeve's Superman theme into the soundtrack. Very nice.
* I generally didn't like the scene where the newly resurrected Superman goes ape on the other Justice Leaguers. I understand why it happened, but it felt unnecessary and didn't advance the plot much. Having said that, the fight itself was very well done, and I do love how Superman had that super-speed match with the Flash. The fact that the Flash never got hit by Supes shows that he is actually faster than Superman too.
* Overall I feel that this was too much of a fan's movie. I understand that many parts of this movie makes more sense if you read the comics, but a good comic book movie should be one that any audience member can enjoy, including those who've never picked up a comic book in their life. Again, this is another aspect where the MCU is superior to the DCCU.
* I have mixed feelings about this, but this movie is clearly trying to emulate some of the successful elements from the MCU. Making serious characters more comical (and thus more human). Foreshadowing an impending apocalyptic extra-terrestrial threat (Darkseid/Thanos) etc. On one hand I can understand why they're doing it - kinda like a, "If you can't beat them join them" strategy, but on the other hand it kinda makes the movie more bland as it's not giving us as much freshness/originality. This is one thing that made Wonder Woman stand out more. But then again, DC did try to be really different with BvS - they went all dark and gritty, a formula that worked with the Dark Knight Trilogy and had given then reasonable success with Man of Steel. But it was something that didn't resonate with audiences on BvS (myself included), so... I can see why they decided to try and mirror some of the successful elements from the MCU.
Game night. Good comedy. Slight twists. 6/10. Some funny moments shown in the trailer gave it away so not as funny the 10th time in the movie.
Tomb raider. Good movie. Gritty like the game. Wasnt sure if it was staying grounded or adding supernatural elements. The floor scene messed it up. Over all good quality flick. If you enjoyed the game will like the movie. 8/10. Felt the first killing scene with her and no killing for killing sake. Like to see where they go from here.
Saw the Deadpool 2 trailer on youtube... looks like it should be good.
Saw Pacific Rim 2: Uprising and am happy to say it is just as bonkers as the first. Perhaps the first one looked slighlty cooler due to using the good ‘ol nighttime/rain combo.
I saw a trailer that focused on Cable, and it looks exactly like what a live-action Cable should look like, so I'm happy with that. I did however have a pause at the start of the trailer, unsure if the person "born into war" was Cable or Thanos...Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
I didn't like Pacific Rim 2 but I did like the Jaeger scenes (and great to see a live action Bulkhead!). They also seem to have improved their geography of Sydney but locals might know better. At least there was no giant wall protecting the Opera House from North Sydney this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deonasis
As good as the sequel is, it can't match the first one which I've watched so many times and have to admit is better than Godzilla (2014).Quote:
Originally Posted by Deonasis
P.S. Love that mega kaiju at the end and the little junkyard jaeger.:)
PR 2. Not as good as the first with story but you can see more as it is shot during the day. I dont like how the gateway was created, just glossed over that. Still silly fun. 6 or 7/10
Thought it was damn good too. I haven't played the game but know of it and seen some friends play it. Gritty indeed. And silly me forgot my indoor glasses so had to wear my sunglasses so I could see properly, drowned out some of the lighter colours. Made it more gritty and tbh maybe a lil better. I look forward to seeing more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Autocon
Funny that one reviewer panned it, choosing to focus on her lack of sex appeal. Whilst I think she is attractive, that's not the reason I watched it.
As for the supernatural element [SPOILER]the booby traps whilst somewhat stretches belief, no further than Goonies done before.[/SPOILER]
I enjoyed tomb raider a lot more than Star Wars. In fact I think this is my favourite tomb raider movie.
My only criticism would be she was too clean in some of the scenes. Doesn't bug me too much as overall this is the kind of story I am expecting for tomb raider.
It's been more than a week and no one has seen Ready Player One yet? Please lift your game guys. You won't regret it.:D
I finally got around to watching the Jolie one, wasn't much interested. Some cool scenes but mostly boring I felt. Shows even the best cast can't make a good film. The new one however I really dugQuote:
Originally Posted by drifand
I haven't even had the chance to see Black Panther yet, let alone that lol. On my to watch listQuote:
Originally Posted by shockNwave
Really looking forward to this one! I generally avoid the first 1-3 weeks of release as we prefer to have the cinema to ourselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by shockNwave
Having said the above, we tried to watch Black Panther on Good Friday and the cinema was completely sold out - 6th week since it's release. We were thinking wth.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
Good movie, saw it on Easter Monday by booking ahead.
A Quiet Place - very very well done horror thriller. Catch it in as empty a cinema as possible.
I saw it on Wednesday night, and there were about a dozen people in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime
I didn't think it was a bad movie, but I didn't think it was one of the best MCU movies, and couldn't figure out why it has been breaking records at the box office. There was so many times that I just wanted to pull out a remote control and fast forward a scene.
And I felt it lacked a linking plot-device to the overall Infinity Gauntlet/stones or Avengers story... it really felt like a stand-alone movie in the MCU, when pretty much every other one had an Avengers element or Infinity Stones element.
Having Bucky tacked onto the end seemed so unnecessary, and he should have been one of the active characters of the movie, just to rope it into the main story universe of the current Phase of Marvel Movies.
As for the Infinity War movie... it starts in a few days time, and last week was the first time I saw it advertised on TV (and have only seen it advertised three times so far).
I was expecting saturation for the last couple of months, like we get with the other Billion Dollar franchises of Star Wars and Transformers... but it's almost like they spent so much money making the movie (said to be close to US$400 million), that they don't have much money left to spend on promoting it.
Or at least, the movie studio doesn't want to spend the usual US$100-150 million on marketing a billion dollar movie, to make sure that they make back enough to be worth the expense.
I think Infinity War has been coming for a long time and enough people know about it that they don't need to oversaturate on advertising. I've seen quite a few ads for it though. You're right though, can be put in a standalone film list too. Some links to Civil War, just not alot into Infinity War
Watched Black Panther, I felt it was good. But in terms of where it ranks I have loved Thor Ragnarok over this.
Considering that generations of Black Panthers can communicate with the dead and that (as shown in the Infinity War trailers) Thanos launches an attack on Wakanda. I'm willing to bet that Wakanda is home to the soul stone (which is the big orange stone that fits on the back of the infinity gauntlet).Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1