Saw Furiosa over the weekend.
I’d give it a pass mark. But only just. I thought Chris Hemsworth was a poor choice for a villain ( like a drunken fratboy crossed with a biker) and the actress playing Furiosa had little to no screen presence.
Action was decent.
Also, I saw it in a really big cinema on a Saturday evening. It was maybe 20% full.
Guy at the popcorn stand told me that Friday night was even worse.
The latest Dune movie was enjoyable. I heard it deviates from the books a little more than Part One did, but I still very much enjoyed it.
Right now our household does regular bad movie nights. We’re getting ready to do soccer themed movies, first up is “Ladybugs” (1992) and the “The Big Green” (1995)
The full length trailer for Alien: Romulus dropped yesterday
Alien: Romulus Official Trailer
Looks scary good. It appears Fede Alvarez has captured the right vibe too.
i LOVE the alien series. i sure hope this one is good. looks like its primarily going to be inside a ship, unlike the last two.
YES! the alien series is fantastic. I even like Prometheus.
Looked like a lot of face hugger action in that trailer. creepy little bastards!!
Well, the reviews for The Crow remake are out and…not good!
No surprises there. The trailer was horrendous.
It’s bombed almost as bad as Borderlands.
I saw Alien Romulus and it was neither scary nor exciting.
The first 20 minutes or so were passable, but then it started to go downhill pretty fast.
The last 20 minutes are every bit as bad as Alien Resurrection or anything that came after that.
I’d give it a 3 out of 10.
It pretty much shamelessly rehashes the first movie only with a bland gen z cast lol. Not a single one of those people has an ounce of charisma. That’s the problem with hollywood right now it has zero originality and DEI mandates up the wazoo lol. That’s non sustainable.
I think of this series as a 3 part saga. I stopped caring after the third movie when I noticed they were just cash grabs with boring scripts.
Watched Kubrick’s 2001 yesterday. Still holds up. Still relevant in the wake of all this AI advancement we’re seeing.
Watch Hollywood reboot this one and ruin it too. Everything they touch they milk to death lol
THIS!
Spot on. Within ten minutes of walking out of the cinema, I couldn’t remember the name of a single character in the movie. Surprised the femme fatale of the movie wasn’t a black lesbian climate change social justice warrior. who was transitioning into a man
Because modern day Hollywood.
Anathema-Weather Systems
Porcupine Tree-The Incident
Katatonia-The Great Cold Distance
Just realized back in Aug I posted music in the movie thread…derp
Anyway,I had just re-watched Michael Mann’ Heat 2 nights ago and then saw Val Kilmer died…rip…
Ironic given that he’s the only one of the bad guys to (SPOILER) get away… RIP Val.
Val Kilmer. RIP. One of the best. Uncompromising. Iconic roles. Iceman, Doc Holliday, Nick Rivers, the list goes on. I enjoyed his autobiography “I’m Your Huckleberry” (2020).
The three essential and often overlooked Kilmer films are:
Thunderheart
The Salton Sea
Wonderland
The doc about him called Val is great also…
Yeah but what about top secret!?
Fucking great movie. Val is perfect for that role. Real Genius, too.
True Romance?
The Saint
Totally. nb There isn’t a single role in that movie that isn’t perfectly cast. If I were an actor, I would feel blessed just to have a walk-on in that flick.
That is by far my favorite Val role! So funny so smart. Just a great movie. I didn’t really like him as ice man, but that’s probably because he played the role so well. I thought he was a dick. Almost like he wasn’t acting, ya’ know? (which is still a compliment)
Chris: “You didn’t clean the place up did you? Good because all of my filth is in alphabetical order. This, for example is under ‘H’ for ‘toy.’”
Mitch: “What is it?”
Chris: “It’s a penis stretcher. Wanna Try?”
Mitch: “NOOO!”