Random Movie Thoughts Thread

[Totenkindly]

Just finished Furiosa. Aside from the issue of it being a prequel, it's pretty solid and gives a bit of backstory for characters in Fury Road including the three city bosses.

Chris Hemsworth does have a bit of comic skill -- he plays Dementus for an undercurrent of laughs, and it's hard to miss a few minutes of the film when his beard and cloak are inadvertently dyed red, so you can't help but think of Thor. He's using a pretty twangy Aussie accent too.

The girl playing young Furiosa and Anya Taylor-Joy are both decent. It's really cool by the end when Taylor-Joy is actually talking (for awhile she plays at being mute), and she drops her voice a bit to channel Charlize Theron -- she's pretty spot-on. It's actually Taylor-Joy. Some people thought Theron had dubbed it in.

In the first trailers for the film [and in the actual film], a voice-over that sounds like Theron narrates the hardships of Furiosa’s youth, but Taylor-Joy clarifies that it’s actually her speaking.

“Really?” Taylor-Joy says when I tell her that I thought Theron had come back to read this dialogue. “Good!” And then she ribs me a little: “You’re shocked that I’m good?” she huffs. “Acting darling.” She adds, “I was channeling Furiosa’s voice. Gal doesn’t talk much. When she opens her mouth, it’s rusty in there...”

This film is a bit more laid-back than Fury Road and thus is a bit more of a conventional film, doing backstory/origin and then set pieces that have time to set up and breathe. So it's not really as balls-to-the-wall with manic energy like the first film. Taken for what it is, it's a pretty solid setup for Furiosa. We see how she go to where she was in Fury Road, how she learned to be a badass, and the different emotional wounds that created her.

I was gonna just give this a 4/5 but that last minute of the film was just like an omg holy shit moment that deserves SOME kind of kudos.

Like with the original, sound and visuals are really stellar even at home in 4K.

 

[The Cat]

Apparently Alan Rickman had a hard time not laughing for this line, so I guess what we're seeing is Alan Rickman staring into the void of trying to be serious when you find something funny.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Werewolf Billionaire CEO Husbands Are Taking Over Hollywood

Apps like ReelShort are raking in tens of millions of dollars with series like Fated to My Forbidden Alpha.

www.rollingstone.com

What if movies were more like Tik-Tok? I don't like where this is going....

 

[The Cat]

Werewolf Billionaire CEO Husbands Are Taking Over Hollywood

Apps like ReelShort are raking in tens of millions of dollars with series like Fated to My Forbidden Alpha.

www.rollingstone.com

What if movies were more like Tik-Tok? I don't like where this is going....

It's gonna suck suck suck suck suck

 

[Totenkindly]

Lol, kind of creative.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Totenkindly]

The incel fanboys are going to wail about DEI plotting again...

 

[The Cat]

The incel fanboys are going to wail about DEI plotting again...

Which doesnt make sense? I thought RoP was cast pretty well. I wish it had been longer and had a little more practical effects, but that was about it for my criticisms, but I wasnt super invested in it as a property so my enjoyment was an easy bar to get over. Also this is an anime? How can one get mad about that in an anime? I just hope its well written, and doesnt make us wait a million years between seasons.

 

[Totenkindly]

Which doesnt make sense? I thought RoP was cast pretty well. I wish it had been longer and had a little more practical effects, but that was about it for my criticisms, but I wasnt super invested in it as a property so my enjoyment was an easy bar to get over. Also this is an anime? How can one get mad about that in an anime? I just hope its well written, and doesnt make us wait a million years between seasons.

It's a film, not a show.... which is why I posted it in Random Movie thread

 

[The Cat]

It's a film, not a show.... which is why I posted it in Random Movie thread

It has been a hell of a week at work, and not a lot of sleep lol. I really did think this was the the tv show thought thread, I watched that whole trailer and thought, Wow, they're showing a trailer for the whole season arent they?

Happy Friday!

FFS I looked at my own borderlands post and thought, huh I misposed this into random tv... ​

 

[Totenkindly]

It has been a hell of a week at work, and not a lot of sleep lol. I really did think this was the the tv show thought thread, I watched that whole trailer and thought, Wow, they're showing a trailer for the whole season arent they?

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I actually reGoogled it to make sure it was a film lol

So glad I am done with work shortly, the Team Leads are having lunch with our supervisor today at a local restaurant and then just going home.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

The incel fanboys are going to wail about DEI plotting again...

IMO, this looks pretty good and I'm excited to see it.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

In terms of modern horror, I don't know that I've watched a ton of mainstream horror, but that's not because I'm unwilling. What I have seen is the weirder stuff. I love the films of Panos Cosmatos. His works have some great themes.

I also like most of the A24 movies, although I find the idea expressed in A Ghost Story to better be expressed much more fully and compellingly in The Green Knight. I'm not sure if The Green Knight is a horror movie or not. It's sort of an absurdist (as in Camus) medieval epic. In the end I found it profound and even empowering. He takes off the magical belt of protection his sorceress mother gave him, and faces his life and death on his own terms, whenever the latter may come.

 

[The Cat]

In terms of modern horror, I don't know that I've watched a ton of mainstream horror, but that's not because I'm unwilling. What I have seen is the weirder stuff. I love the films of Panos Cosmatos. His works have some great themes.

I also like most of the A24 movies, although I find the idea expressed in A Ghost Story to better be expressed much more fully and compellingly in The Green Knight. I'm not sure if The Green Knight is a horror movie or not. It's sort of an absurdist (as in Camus) medieval epic. In the end I found it profound and even empowering. He takes off the magical belt of protection his sorceress mother gave him, and faces his life and death on his own terms, whenever the latter may come.

You should check out Residue, and The Void if you can find them.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

You know, people need to chill out. Growing up in the 90s every single movie featured a white male as the lead, with the exception of Will Smith. I welcome the opportunity to highlight other kinds of heroes because the alternative is kind of dull and maybe these sorts of stories inspire people. I can't see anything wrong with that.

 

[The Cat]

You know, people need to chill out. Growing up in the 90s every single movie featured a white male as the lead, with the exception of Will Smith. I welcome the opportunity to highlight other kinds of heroes because the alternative is kind of dull and maybe these sorts of stories inspire people. I can't see anything wrong with that.

On the internet? Perish the thought.

Also technically not every movie did, there were a lot of diverse films and castings around, it just was rarely billed as a focus. Don't get me wrong, I think there's room for what's coming out now, but there's no reason why there can't be a diverse set of genres and there's nothing wrong with fresh perspectives of existing properties. But occasionally throw something to the dogs who got your sled here. There's enough golden eggs for everyone so long as no one gets greedy and kills the goose.

I miss with the disagreements were about technical specifics in the technologies and lore and mythology of what I call the friendscape star wars world you make with your other star wars friends then play a ttrpg set there. Or make an original story and get it published. I think a lot of the back lash from fans is that whether they're making reasonable points or not, they feel like they're being misrepresented to distract from the fact that their products left a portion of their base cold. They're proud of their work, and that's great, but enough people arent into it, sometimes you gotta rely on those story and writing, and hope the directors vision is to make a great film, not a great marketing strategy.

 

[Totenkindly]

You know, people need to chill out. Growing up in the 90s every single movie featured a white male as the lead, with the exception of Will Smith. I welcome the opportunity to highlight other kinds of heroes because the alternative is kind of dull and maybe these sorts of stories inspire people. I can't see anything wrong with that.

Yeah, basically every comic book, the majority of films, and the majority of TV shows were slanted towards white men -- so to me a lot of the changes are just retelling or recasting stories to better reflect the current social composition. It feels kind of snotty to dominate (very much like a monopoly) on an entire cultural history and not being willing to let people play around and adjust some of the stories to tell things from new perspectives. Many current stories are just retelling other cultural stories anyway, just with modern settings and cultures. Religions also morph when they move from culture to culture; morphing isn't a big deal, it's showing the adaptability and resilience of the myths and stories.

I'm also not really fond of white culture bitching when other perspectives want to retell a story from its own angle, but we constantly are swiping other films and shows to "make an English and/or American version." I mean, hell, they were making an American version/spin of Squid Game for god's sake -- a totally Asian show, with subtitles, after the Asian show did really great on Netflix regardless. Isn't that what white folks are bitching about? And how many foreign films have we stolen or remade? Like whatever, man. It should go both ways. Even "The Departed" (which got Scorsese his Best Director) was ripped from "Infernal Affairs" (an Asian film). You can get some great spins off films from other cultures.

Honestly, I really care about the quality of stories and whether they are worth telling regardless. Diversity is cool in how it opens options in novel ways; but a bad story is a bad story, and a good story is a good story.

 

[The Cat]

This ^^

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Owww, it hurts! Send it back! Send it back!

 

[The Cat]

Owww, it hurts! Send it back! Send it back!

The Cabbage Patch Kids are more unsettling to me than the Garbage Pale Kids. I think because the GPKs are honest about being unsettling. The CPK, never move while you're looking at them. like infant weeping angels.