Movie Thread

[zitothebrave]

I really hope Benedict CUmberbatch gets/wants to do Doctor Strange. The other choices are pretty crappy.

[The Chosen One]

Still wish the Rock would've gone to Marvel. His personality and acting style works better with Marvel's Cinematic Universe, as opposed to the let's get serious tone of Snyder's DCU.

Hoping that DC gets smart and let's Idris Elba be Green Lantern...

[zitothebrave]

Isn't Reynolds still locked up into that? I mean I'm sure they can get him out but I seem to recall him being on a multi-movie deal for that could be wrong.

I have little faith in the current direction of DC comic movies. I mean Nolan's Batman was brilliant, but they're into making money which is why Snyder keeps getting gigs. He's just another Michael Bay (who'll probably direct a few) Where marvel (IMO) succeeded was getting interesting directors involved.

Iron Man 1 adn 2 was Favreau, Iron Man 3 Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) Thor Kenneth Branagh, Thor 2 Alan Taylor (primarily episodes of HBO shows, pretty much all of them) Captain America Joe Johnston (Jumanji, Hidalgo. and others) Cap 2 Anthony and Joe Russo (mainly TV shows, most of them comedies) Gaurdians James Gunn (pretty much nothing) and of course Whedon did the Avengers.

Marvel's scope is what makes it grand and that scope is controlled by bigger fish that Michael Bay 2.0.

[50PoundHead]

Saw "Birdman" last night. Michael Keaton is awfully good. Hard to give the move an unequivocal "must see" recommendation, but it's a pretty good meditation on the nature of art and middle age. My guess is Keaton will get nominated for a Best Actor award, but won't win it. Great cast.

[jpx7]

Saw "Birdman" last night. Michael Keaton is awfully good. Hard to give the move an unequivocal "must see" recommendation, but it's a pretty good meditation on the nature of art and middle age. My guess is Keaton will get nominated for a Best Actor award, but won't win it. Great cast.

I've been really hoping to catch that soon.

[zitothebrave]

i'm hoping I'll get to see Birdman, but I think I'll have to wait til it's available for amazon rental.

Saw Fury, pretty crappy. I mean it's not a terrible movie, Acting was strong, writing was pretty terrible.

[zitothebrave]

Haven't been around lately because I'm back home visiting family. So I'm making a quick post while I'm slowly waking up

Interstellar

Interstellar in IMAX

[The Chosen One]

Haven't been around lately because I'm back home visiting family. So I'm making a quick post while I'm slowly waking up

Interstellar

Interstellar in IMAX

I concur with this.

[The Chosen One]

I watched Interstellar last night... and I'm already disappointed with the negative reviews that are chastising Nolan for the plot "holes" than the actual experience of watching the movie.

In IMAX theater, this movie was fantastic. The raw emotion, the imagery, and the cinematography altogether was fantastic. I saw some inspiration from Inception, Prestige, and even some Dark Knight/Rises thrown in there.

There will be people who just don't like what Nolan does altogether who won't like this movie. Were some of the things in the movie absurd only because the science is not there (yet)? Of course. But I allowed myself to suspend disbelief on what I already knew about science/physics/quantum mechanics etc. and just appreciate what he was trying to achieve in this movie.

[The Chosen One]

Just my opinion, but I don't think this movie will go over very well with religious conservatives. They already thought thanks to Limbaugh that Nolan "created" the Bane character in The Dark Knight Rises as a metaphor for Romney's Bain Capital firm.

Spoiler: 

The fact that god is nonexistent in this movie and not discussed at all, conservatives will not be happy about it and just say "God allowed Cooper to enter the 5th dimension".

Ironically, the only hint to a god, is Michael Caine trying to play god by preventing human extinction with Plan B.

[zitothebrave]

Yeah I read some bad reviews to compare to my experience and I think people wrote ****ty reviews simply to get reads. One guys complaint is that at one point Zimmer's score was building and nothing major happened, i got a feeling the entire time they were in space that the build up music was entirely intentional to stress how dangerous space is.

The question I have remaining is how many Oscars will it be up for and how many will it win. I think visuals and effects for sure.

[The Chosen One]

At first I wasn't feeling Zimmer's score with the heavy use of organs. It almost felt like I was in a church. But then it seemed to fit with the movie very nicely.

[50PoundHead]

Just my opinion, but I don't think this movie will go over very well with religious conservatives. They already thought thanks to Limbaugh that Nolan "created" the Bane character in The Dark Knight Rises as a metaphor for Romney's Bain Capital firm.

Spoiler: 

The fact that god is nonexistent in this movie and not discussed at all, conservatives will not be happy about it and just say "God allowed Cooper to enter the 5th dimension".

Ironically, the only hint to a god, is Michael Caine trying to play god by preventing human extinction with Plan B.

"interstellar" was our weekly movie choice this past weekend and it's a good movie. It's really a well-crafted movie with a solid, if somewhat plodding, plot. I agree with your point that this probably won't be on the conservatives--religious or otherwise--"must see" list. It reminded me a lot of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Only downside of the movie for me was the whole time/gravity continuum thing that was a bit too detailed for me to follow as a casual viewer. But as a "big picture" movie, it drilled the existential angle down to its deepest core and did so quite well.

[thethe]

Has anyone talked about the Exodous movie? I think that has a lot of potential to be good. Maybe its just the Hebrew in me!

[zitothebrave]

I enjoy my adapted fiction.

Cast looks interesting, Scott usually makes amazing movies, so it should be good.

[The Chosen One]

Sony is really really desperate now. Amazing Spiderman 2 underperformed to their expectations, and they've recently gotten desperate by confirming a Venom and Carnage stand-a-lone movies in addition to Sinister Six. Well a few weeks ago they confirmed a Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) stand-a-lone and now theres...


a confirmed Aunt May stand-a-lone without Spider-Man film.

[Krgrecw]

All the big movie companies are going to get killed when the superhero type films start bombing due to the oversaturation of that market.

[The Chosen One]

All the big movie companies are going to get killed when the superhero type films start bombing due to the oversaturation of that market.

Highly unlikely.

I don't see a superhero movie industry collapse until they get really desperate. There's so many characters and interpretations of the characters they can use and it never will get old.

Unless you have Sony who only owns the Spiderman franchise, and they're getting desperate because they have no other characters than Spidey that can support the universe.

[jpx7]

Interstellar was great. Obviously not as good as 2001, but it borrows from its antecedent in all the best ways.

[50PoundHead]

Interstellar was great. Obviously not as good as 2001, but it borrows from its antecedent in all the best ways.

I thought the same thing. Didn't quite reach the level of profundity of 2001, but hit on some very interesting spokes emanating from the 2001 hub.