The General Movie Thread

[TangledThorns]

1 hour ago, electric indigo said:

Feeling a little too good lately? Take a look at the OG Hunger Game.

 

IKR. Can't I just watch films that makes me take a break from reality? lol

[Big s]

38 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

IKR. Can't I just watch films that makes me take a break from reality? lol

That’s what Psycho Goreman and Turbo Kid are for

[electric indigo]

9 hours ago, Big s said:

I always think of the og hunger games as either Running Man or Battle Royale

Stephen King wrote "The Long Walk" even before "Running Man" in '79

IMO it's the most brutal of the "Battle Royale" type storys.

[Big s]

6 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Stephen King wrote "The Long Walk" even before "Running Man" in '79

IMO it's the most brutal of the "Battle Royale" type storys.

I was kinda meaning movie wise. I guess as far as books, maybe most dangerous game might be the og, but I’m not really sure there. 
I read a few of King’s books when I was younger, but decided that it’s for the best if I never read story books anymore. I figure if it’s a decent story they’ll make a movie. And I really don’t want to be that guy that everyone totally hates that says “the book was better”.

[electric indigo]

I kinda envy you for being somewhat in the dark about how badly many movies are written 😄

[Big s]

3 hours ago, electric indigo said:

I kinda envy you for being somewhat in the dark about how badly many movies are written 😄

It’s actually kind of a relief in a lot of ways. You don’t get frustrated when some great story gets ruined. I think I’d be even happier if I had never read anything by Tolkien when I was a kid. Maybe I wouldn’t be as frustrated with rings of power. Or maybe the Hobbit movies wouldn’t seem so tedious 

[electric indigo]

10 minutes ago, Big s said:

Or maybe the Hobbit movies wouldn’t seem so tedious 

I can assure you from personal experience that this doesn't help the movies at all.

[Big s]

2 hours ago, electric indigo said:

I can assure you from personal experience that this doesn't help the movies at all.

I honestly enjoy the cartoon version a lot more than the movies overall.

[Big s]

38 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said:

At last the return of Fury

I’d heard it had a bunch of lawsuits to try and get things moving after all the live action stuff was completed 

[Old_Nash_II]

13 minutes ago, Big s said:

I’d heard it had a bunch of lawsuits to try and get things moving after all the live action stuff was completed 

Yes, it was originally supposed to be released in 2023, but because of that it's coming out now. In fact, I even questioned whether this was official on the channel I got it from

[Black Valkyrie]

 

 

 

[TangledThorns]

Crazy that we got to see anything. What a joke that the lawsuit is.

[Big s]

6 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Yes, it was originally supposed to be released in 2023, but because of that it's coming out now. In fact, I even questioned whether this was official on the channel I got it from

I kinda did the same. I had a bad feeling that it was gonna be one of those permanently shelved projects.

 

18 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

Crazy that we got to see anything. What a joke that the lawsuit is.

one of those jokes where nobody was laughing. Hopefully this ends up just as fun or even better than the first one.

[sh9000]

 

 

[TangledThorns]

Looks fun  which is not how I would describe Aronofsky's films, lol.

 

 

[Big s]

38 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

Looks fun  which is not how I would describe Aronofsky's films, lol.

 

 

Looks fun for sure, but I feel like that’s the wrong song for this movie title. Maybe Jane’s Addiction might have a song that fits that title just a bit better. I could be wrong though 

[Dynaman]

I just got back from the latest Mission Impossible movie.  Decent film, anyone that likes the series will enjoy this one.

The price for tickets though, $25 a ticket for a matinee.  OW!  That is up about $10 from the last time I went to a movie at a theater (granted, five years ago but still)

[TangledThorns]

2 hours ago, Dynaman said:

I just got back from the latest Mission Impossible movie.  Decent film, anyone that likes the series will enjoy this one.

The price for tickets though, $25 a ticket for a matinee.  OW!  That is up about $10 from the last time I went to a movie at a theater (granted, five years ago but still)

 

And that is before you add popcorn and a drink, ugh. And movie theaters wonder why they are dying...

[Thom]

They are in a spiral. Less people filling the seats means they have to charge more for the warm seats they do have, which means less people filling the seats, and thus they need to charge more for the even fewer warmed seats...

[sh9000]

 

 

[Old_Nash_II]

No connection with Wings of Desire, Faraway, So Close! and City of Angels XD

[sh9000]

Teaser 3.

 

[Big s]

42 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

Teaser 3.

 

I’m really hoping it’s enjoyable. Love a good bad bit of Troma trauma

[sh9000]

 

 

[Old_Nash_II]

[Big s]

I finally did it and watched Hundreds of Beavers recently. It took a bit of convincing and found a few spoiler free reviews that all said that it was the funniest movie of the year back in 2024. 
I really don’t remember too many funny movies from last year, so maybe it’s true, but it may have been a low bar year for comedy.

Anyway Hundreds of Beavers definitely won’t be a movie for everyone. I really enjoyed it, but I like some rather absurd things. The budget is practically nothing, all the animals are played by people in furry costumes or are sewn together puppets. and the effects are all animated in. It’s also filmed in black and white and done in a way to give a classic cartoon kinda look to everything. A lot of the music I kinda recognize from other movies like the ending theme, so that was probably another way to keep things cheap. Despite its cheapness, there’s a lot of truly epic scenes.

 Basically it’s about a drunk that gets his life completely destroyed by beavers and left out in a cold forest and has to navigate his cartoony world and learn gradually how to survive. There’s a running gag that there is a random vendor lodge that’s kinda like something out of a video game that sells items with increasing usefulness depending on the price and the only way to get money is to bring in animals that he’s trapped.
There’s a lot of trial and error that’s fun to watch because things only work by cartoony rules. He does meet a more experienced trapper that helps him out, but eventually he has to take what he’s learned and perfect it to meet his new goal of not just basic survival, but marrying the vendor’s daughter.

Overall it’s a fun one with a bit of a slow start because the main character has to slowly learn the best ways to perfect his skills from being a guy with zero survival skills to becoming a professional trapper. If you’re ok with absolute absurdity and nonsensical humor, it’s a good watch, but I’d imagine that most will stay away from it after just watching the preview.

[Old_Nash_II]

Brandon Routh is back

Edited yesterday at 01:50 AM by Old_Nash_II