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Post by Jesse on Sept 20, 2017 11:39:29 GMT -5
New Alexander Payne movie
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 20, 2017 12:07:27 GMT -5
Early look at David Tenant as Crowley and Michael Sheen as Aziraphale form the set of Good Omens...  -M I may have to actually get Prime for this. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 25, 2017 19:43:17 GMT -5
Got the chance to watch Baby Driver this weekend. The title still sounds stupid, but this was a crazy fun movie, which was pretty much a given since it was directed by Edgar Wright. Just a seriously fun action/caper movie.
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Post by impulse on Sept 26, 2017 9:37:11 GMT -5
Got the chance to watch Baby Driver this weekend. The title still sounds stupid, but this was a crazy fun movie, which was pretty much a given since it was directed by Edgar Wright. Just a seriously fun action/caper movie. I just watched it this weekend, too. What a fun movie! |
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Post by Jesse on Oct 1, 2017 12:32:17 GMT -5
The Purge: Election Year (2016)  I think the social commentary on classism and population control is probably more interesting than the over-the-top violence in this film series but for anyone who enjoyed the last sequel this is more of the same gory exploitive grindhouse action and suspense. Frank Grillo's performance in this as well as the last movie made me think he might be decent in the role of the Punisher.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 1, 2017 13:01:25 GMT -5
Travolta as John Gotti looks kind of interesting.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 6, 2017 13:36:48 GMT -5
New Pacific Rim trailer.
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Post by badwolf on Oct 8, 2017 12:21:37 GMT -5
On the other hand, I saw It this weekend and think it may be the best movie released in 2017 that I've seen. (I'm not counting the 2016 movies, including some Oscar nominees, that I saw in early 2017). I saw it last night and thought it was great as well. The kids especially were all fantastic. |
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Post by brutalis on Oct 9, 2017 8:28:31 GMT -5
Saw Bladerunner 2049 Saturday morning/afternoon (2 hours and 43 minutes long) and let my self wander the bleak and desolate future of Human/Replicant society once more. Very slow moving picture allowing the visuals to provide so much of the story while you explore and yet never allowing the visuals to over power the storyline. Great casting and effects. Story is deliberately subtle and layered and lets you do your own thinking and drawing of conclusions as the onion is peeled away. Captured parts of what was so wonderful of the original Bladerunner while still advancing the world and plot in creating a very unique and satisfying sequel. Does what great science fiction is supposed to do: make you think and ponder heavily on today and what tomorrow will bring. The perfect way to make your brain hurt  |
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Post by Warmonger on Oct 9, 2017 8:54:29 GMT -5
Saw Bladerunner 2049 Saturday morning/afternoon (2 hours and 43 minutes long) and let my self wander the bleak and desolate future of Human/Replicant society once more. Very slow moving picture allowing the visuals to provide so much of the story while you explore and yet never allowing the visuals to over power the storyline. Great casting and effects. Story is deliberately subtle and layered and lets you do your own thinking and drawing of conclusions as the onion is peeled away. Captured parts of what was so wonderful of the original Bladerunner while still advancing the world and plot in creating a very unique and satisfying sequel. Does what great science fiction is supposed to do: make you think and ponder heavily on today and what tomorrow will bring. The perfect way to make your brain hurt One of the best sequels ever made IMO. Denis Villeneuve was the perfect man for the job. Also loved how they didn't shove the "Deckard is a replicant" crap down your throat like Ridley Scott did in the later cuts of the first movie. It's left totally ambiguous like in the theatrical cut of the original. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 16, 2017 0:40:28 GMT -5
To me, they didn't manage to come up with a story compelling enough to prevent it from feeling like an unnecessary sequel, but Villeneuve saved it from mediocrity with some stunning visual sequences. I'm excited about him doing Dune, based on how this looked - though at the same time a bit nervous about the possible casting, as he seems to like working with a kind of lead actor I don't find interesting - e.g. Ryan Gosling here or Jake Gyllenhall whom I see listed in some of his other films (I find these two stars kind of similar). I'll be waiting in great trepidation for the news on who's going to play whom in Dune.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 16, 2017 14:36:14 GMT -5
Saw Bladerunner 2049 Saturday morning/afternoon (2 hours and 43 minutes long) and let my self wander the bleak and desolate future of Human/Replicant society once more. Very slow moving picture allowing the visuals to provide so much of the story while you explore and yet never allowing the visuals to over power the storyline. Great casting and effects. Story is deliberately subtle and layered and lets you do your own thinking and drawing of conclusions as the onion is peeled away. Captured parts of what was so wonderful of the original Bladerunner while still advancing the world and plot in creating a very unique and satisfying sequel. Does what great science fiction is supposed to do: make you think and ponder heavily on today and what tomorrow will bring. The perfect way to make your brain hurt One of the best sequels ever made IMO. Denis Villeneuve was the perfect man for the job.
Also loved how they didn't shove the "Deckard is a replicant" crap down your throat like Ridley Scott did in the later cuts of the first movie.It's left totally ambiguous like in the theatrical cut of the original. I never understood where that particular idea came from. I mean, how is the original story improved in any way if Deckard is indeed a replicant? And if he is, how come he was allowed to retire as a Blade Runner before the first film starts? How come he's so much more fragile than either Roy Batty of Joe K? What's the point of having a replicant Blade Runner who's not a match for the ones he hunts? There was no ambiguity whatsoever in the first film, until Scott decided to change it in his later cuts: Deckard was clearly a normal human (which is how Harrison Ford played him). There is more ambiguity in Villeneuve's film, and there it serves a certain purpose; but even then I fail to see the need for an elaborate charade leading Deckard the replicant to fall for Rachael. If Tyrell wanted them to get together, all he had to do was decant them and let their programming do the rest. Having seen it a second time, I now think the sequel is more engrossing than the 1982 film. It is not as original, naturally, but the philosophical questions it raises are deeper. The first film showed me that a machine could feel, but in our science-fiction culture machines with a soul were nothing new. What the sequel did is more pernicious: it made me rethink the very nature of human emotion. Are we capable of any more authentic emotion than Joi was in that film? Yes, we realize that she's an A.I., and that there are umpteen thousands of copies of her original programming... All of them can act as if they have real emotions, but their responses are dictated by a program. However are we humans any different? All we see of others' emotions are the way they react towards events or people; how do we know it's different from a perfect "simulation"? We react to our environment because of reflexes imbued in us by millions of years of evolution, by a certain set of hormonal activities and by the programming that our upbringing gave us. In that, I'd say we are no different from Joi, except that we usually come in a unique model. Turing's test is more than a way to test if a machine is a convincing facsimile... It could be telling us a machine can be human. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 16, 2017 17:36:35 GMT -5
Anybody seen "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" yet?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 16, 2017 17:39:15 GMT -5
Anybody seen "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" yet? It will never play anywhere near me. I'll have to wait until it streams somewhere. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 16, 2017 17:52:20 GMT -5
Anybody seen "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" yet? It will never play anywhere near me. I'll have to wait until it streams somewhere. It's playing in Boise, Meridian and Nampa; that's the closest I can find: www.imdb.com/showtimes/title/tt6133130/US/83701 |
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