General Movie Thread 2022

[GoGo Yubari]

Not going to pass final judgment on Chris Pratt's Mario voice yet (sounds like he's trying for 80% him, 20% Captain Lou Albano's Mario) but the rest of it I like. Love that the voiceover direction seems to be pushing the cast to do character voices and not their own speaking voices.

[Ruki]

 

[fourstarfizzle]

They should have used AI technology and brought back Bob Hoskins.

[Colly]

 

 

[Lint]

 

[GhostMachine]

Anyone else hoping the Old Man died via electrocution from that tacky leg lamp?

 

[Lint]

Roku has, apparently, put up Weird: The Al Yankovic Story up for free, without a subscription.

Its fantastic.  Think of something like Walk Hard: The Dewy Cox Story but its about a real person.  Just a complete parody of the biopic

[livid]

cannot wait

 

 

[Kaney]

On 10/11/2022 at 20:44, livid said:

cannot wait

 

 

I dunno man. It looks good, like im sure I'll enjoy it but it looks really similar to the last film in a lot of respects. I think for me, they went in a really different direction after the first one, I've liked the whole series but it sort of doesn't feel like it's necessary? Dunno.

[Lint]

This manages to be both hard to watch, and also really funny

[9 to 5]

Watching the latest ERB of history makes me realise that Claudia Black could have been an excellent Lara Croft.

[Maxx]

I haaaaate that subtitle.   It looks good and I'm definitely intrigued, but wow some of that CGI looks really bad, and like its way over done.

[Colly]

I think it'll need to be overdone, watching Ford run about in the Force Awakens was bad enough, and that'll be nearly 8 years ago when this comes out.

[gunnar hendershow]

It's almost incredible how bad CGI has come to look as it's become indispensable. Hollywood just drove that entire industry into the ground chasing cheaper and cheaper labor.

[Maxx]

16 minutes ago, Colly said:

I think it'll need to be overdone, watching Ford run about in the Force Awakens was bad enough, and that'll be nearly 8 years ago when this comes out.

I'm talking about the video game rendering of New York City.

Plus the whole thing has this artificial veneer that's trying to look very Spielberg-esque, but that's out of place because his Indy films never looked like that.

[livid]

Just give it the Oscar now 

 

[gunnar hendershow]

I was honestly expecting 

Spoiler

Airplane has Fallen

to be the title so I was pleasantly surprised.

[Hellraiser]

Glass Onion is awesome! Definitely watch it!

[RPS]

Everything Everywhere All At Once was outstanding. Definitely a transformative piece of film. Anyone who likes action movies and/or experimental film should watch it. If film wasn't in the shitter because of Marvel and Disney, this would change the landscape of film like the Matrix did. 

I also watched The French Dispatch last evening. I have watched every Wes Anderson movie and it felt like the most unlike a Wes Anderson movie. It certainly wears it's influences on its sleeve. I do not really know if I would recommend it. It was certainly interesting. 

[gunnar hendershow]

Starting to get through the most notable films of the year since they're popping up on streaming, digital rental, or physical purchase. 

Started off with The Banshees of Inisherin which was fantastic. Everything about it is just so, so good. Only mild complaint is it felt obligated to hit you over the head with what it's a metaphor for more than a few times. But then as I've sat on it for a few days I've come up with totally different themes that are also completely valid in an interpretation of the movie.