StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
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My biggest problem with Aquaman was that there was only one remotely sympathetic character/actor, and it was Black Manta
I've mentioned before that I consider Momoa an absolute charisma void, and Amber Heard was much the same here (I think the only time I've ever liked her is All The Boys Love Mandy Lane)
Patrick Wilson did good work, but as an absolute bastard of a villain, and I love Defoe but they didn't give him any material to work with
All that combined with the movie taking the superhero third act CGI problems to new depths really just left me bored by the end of it
Edit: Specific spoilery stuff to elaborate on some of my thoughts
Aquaman killing Black Manta's dad was absolutely heinous
Like, everyone hated Superman killing Zod, I regularly get angry about Bruce's use of force, but this was so much fucking worse, oh my god
God fuck that
I was just kind of assuming it would go to streaming, this is fucking stupid and irresponsible
I wonder if our local drive through will have it. I checked yesterday and they still exist, but were mostly showing older releases.
Then again, older releases are mostly what there is right now.
God fuck that
I was just kind of assuming it would go to streaming, this is fucking stupid and irresponsible
I remember reading a couple of months ago the director saying that essentially the movie wasn't allowed to be released to streaming based off of deals in place before Disney purchased Fox, which is believable and infuriating.
But also I'm assuming if Disney really wanted to, they could probably re-negotiate those rights.
Anyway, if this was a $20 USD VOD/purchase option, I would totally watch it. As it is right now, I'll see it when it inevitably comes out on DVD.
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SnicketysnickThe Greatest Hype Man inWesterosRegistered Userregular
God fuck that
I was just kind of assuming it would go to streaming, this is fucking stupid and irresponsible
I remember reading a couple of months ago the director saying that essentially the movie wasn't allowed to be released to streaming based off of deals in place before Disney purchased Fox, which is believable and infuriating.
But also I'm assuming if Disney really wanted to, they could probably re-negotiate those rights.
Anyway, if this was a $20 USD VOD/purchase option, I would totally watch it. As it is right now, I'll see it when it inevitably comes out on DVD.
Movie theaters are so desperate for new movies that might bring audiences back that re-negotiating any deals that involves exhibitors is probably going to be really difficult right now.
And as gross as it is, they're probably using this as an experiment to compare with Mulan and whatever else to determine how to handle other movies that are ready and just waiting to be released. If nothing else it will likely end up making it easier to justify more VOD releases in the future.
It all looks OK except... the villain CGI. I don't understand how big budget films can have such terrible CGI. We're 20 years removed from Spider-Man 1.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
I didn't even like that song before it became the soundtrack to the least watchable sex scene in history
That song was in A History of Violence???
My wife and I took her mom with us to see that in theaters...
The only more awkward theater experience I've ever had was when my dad took 13 year old me and my best friend to see The Doors the weekend it opened. Right before it started we saw two girls from our class there with one of their fathers. The following Monday at school we acknowledged how incredibly awkward watching it with our dads had been and then immediately started to trying to forget it ever happened.
I didn't even like that song before it became the soundtrack to the least watchable sex scene in history
That song was in A History of Violence???
My wife and I took her mom with us to see that in theaters...
The only more awkward theater experience I've ever had was when my dad took 13 year old me and my best friend to see The Doors the weekend it opened. Right before it started we saw two girls from our class there with one of their fathers. The following Monday at school we acknowledged how incredibly awkward watching it with our dads had been and then immediately started to trying to forget it ever happened.
Having never seen The Doors, my guess falls under either there was a tremendous amount of drug use or sex in the movie (both?) because fucking duh it was about a band in the 70s and 80s what else would they be doing?
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Bloods EndBlade of TyshallePunch dimensionRegistered Userregular
Zack Synder prooves 100% bullet proof to any sort of self-reflection or learning.
I'm not sure if that is a critique or not. His movies always feel like the movies he is trying to make. I'm not gonna say that they are good, but they are interesting at least.
I didn't even like that song before it became the soundtrack to the least watchable sex scene in history
That song was in A History of Violence???
My wife and I took her mom with us to see that in theaters...
The only more awkward theater experience I've ever had was when my dad took 13 year old me and my best friend to see The Doors the weekend it opened. Right before it started we saw two girls from our class there with one of their fathers. The following Monday at school we acknowledged how incredibly awkward watching it with our dads had been and then immediately started to trying to forget it ever happened.
Guess who has two thumbs and, as a kid, assumed that all Bruce Willis movies were fun action flicks, and rented Color of Night. Sat down to watch it and my parents come home, and sit down to watch what is presumably a fun bit of Willis, only to see far more Willis bits than we assumed. That one was pretty bad.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
speaking of Snyder missing the mark, people should really watch Maggie Mae Fish's series about Snyder. It's interesting film analysis, and made me want to watch the original Dawn of the Dead even though I hate zombie movies!
I so absolutely refuse to believe that Zack Snyder now has or ever has had the werewithal to deliberately film a hysterically terrible farcical sex scene for his cool superhero movie
I so absolutely refuse to believe that Zack Snyder now has or ever has had the werewithal to deliberately film a hysterically terrible farcical sex scene for his cool superhero movie
I have no idea if it was intentional or not
But the juxtapositioning of the awkward sex and the music and all of the over the top stuff with the Owl Ship
It combines in a way that feels both weirdly authentic to the characters and laughably uncomfortable to watch
I am one hundred percent earnest when I say it is my favorite part of that movie, I think it is fantastic
I didn't even like that song before it became the soundtrack to the least watchable sex scene in history
That song was in A History of Violence???
My wife and I took her mom with us to see that in theaters...
The only more awkward theater experience I've ever had was when my dad took 13 year old me and my best friend to see The Doors the weekend it opened. Right before it started we saw two girls from our class there with one of their fathers. The following Monday at school we acknowledged how incredibly awkward watching it with our dads had been and then immediately started to trying to forget it ever happened.
Having never seen The Doors, my guess falls under either there was a tremendous amount of drug use or sex in the movie (both?) because fucking duh it was about a band in the 70s and 80s what else would they be doing?
60s and 70s, but yeah. There was plenty of both, but it was the sex scenes that made it so awkward. People dancing around naked and drinking each other's blood while getting into witchcraft. Multiple scenes with Val Kilmer getting blowjobs. Whatever else that none of us were used to seeing while watching a movie with parents.
God fuck that
I was just kind of assuming it would go to streaming, this is fucking stupid and irresponsible
So as I understand it there is apparently something in the contract for a lot of the in-development movies Disney picked up during the Fox acquisition that says they HAVE to come out in theaters, and Disney is not allowed to just dump them onto streaming because they’re not “their” movies
This, of course, did not foresee a world where going to a theater is a mortal peril
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Bloods EndBlade of TyshallePunch dimensionRegistered Userregular
I had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dead Calm, and The Doors, various others that were equally inappropriate, all with my parents, all before I'd turned eight. My mom would yell out for me to cover my eyes like, three seconds too late everytime, but that doesn't do shit for the sound, and it's not like I wasn't peeking out between my fingers the whole time because obviously
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I've mentioned before that I consider Momoa an absolute charisma void, and Amber Heard was much the same here (I think the only time I've ever liked her is All The Boys Love Mandy Lane)
Patrick Wilson did good work, but as an absolute bastard of a villain, and I love Defoe but they didn't give him any material to work with
All that combined with the movie taking the superhero third act CGI problems to new depths really just left me bored by the end of it
Edit: Specific spoilery stuff to elaborate on some of my thoughts
Like, everyone hated Superman killing Zod, I regularly get angry about Bruce's use of force, but this was so much fucking worse, oh my god
This is a great idea and seems like something that could be really useful for some folks.
To me it's so much worse than like, killing someone in the heat of battle (as Aquaman also did)
Denying mercy or refusing to save someone that is in your power to save is deeply fucked up
Batman Begins did the same thing and it's one of the many reasons I don't like the Nolan movies
I wonder if our local drive through will have it. I checked yesterday and they still exist, but were mostly showing older releases.
Then again, older releases are mostly what there is right now.
I honestly can’t tell if this is a joke or not
4 minutes after you posted it's already been struck down for copyright.
I remember reading a couple of months ago the director saying that essentially the movie wasn't allowed to be released to streaming based off of deals in place before Disney purchased Fox, which is believable and infuriating.
But also I'm assuming if Disney really wanted to, they could probably re-negotiate those rights.
Anyway, if this was a $20 USD VOD/purchase option, I would totally watch it. As it is right now, I'll see it when it inevitably comes out on DVD.
I'm going to guess this was the SnyderCut(now with butts!)?
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Movie theaters are so desperate for new movies that might bring audiences back that re-negotiating any deals that involves exhibitors is probably going to be really difficult right now.
And as gross as it is, they're probably using this as an experiment to compare with Mulan and whatever else to determine how to handle other movies that are ready and just waiting to be released. If nothing else it will likely end up making it easier to justify more VOD releases in the future.
so the Snyder Cut trailer, I swear to god, I SWEAR to god I am not kidding
the Snyder Cut trailer is scored to Leonard Cohen’s Hallejuah
jesus christ
I'msorrywhat
I must have missed an important movie.
That song was in A History of Violence???
It all looks OK except... the villain CGI. I don't understand how big budget films can have such terrible CGI. We're 20 years removed from Spider-Man 1.
My wife and I took her mom with us to see that in theaters...
The only more awkward theater experience I've ever had was when my dad took 13 year old me and my best friend to see The Doors the weekend it opened. Right before it started we saw two girls from our class there with one of their fathers. The following Monday at school we acknowledged how incredibly awkward watching it with our dads had been and then immediately started to trying to forget it ever happened.
Having never seen The Doors, my guess falls under either there was a tremendous amount of drug use or sex in the movie (both?) because fucking duh it was about a band in the 70s and 80s what else would they be doing?
Zack Synder prooves 100% bullet proof to any sort of self-reflection or learning.
I'm not sure if that is a critique or not. His movies always feel like the movies he is trying to make. I'm not gonna say that they are good, but they are interesting at least.
But wonder woman yall
Oh you mean the best part of Zack Snyder's Watchmen?
Okay well actually this would rule
these will be exhibits A and B at your trial
Guess who has two thumbs and, as a kid, assumed that all Bruce Willis movies were fun action flicks, and rented Color of Night. Sat down to watch it and my parents come home, and sit down to watch what is presumably a fun bit of Willis, only to see far more Willis bits than we assumed. That one was pretty bad.
I have no idea if it was intentional or not
But the juxtapositioning of the awkward sex and the music and all of the over the top stuff with the Owl Ship
It combines in a way that feels both weirdly authentic to the characters and laughably uncomfortable to watch
I am one hundred percent earnest when I say it is my favorite part of that movie, I think it is fantastic
60s and 70s, but yeah. There was plenty of both, but it was the sex scenes that made it so awkward. People dancing around naked and drinking each other's blood while getting into witchcraft. Multiple scenes with Val Kilmer getting blowjobs. Whatever else that none of us were used to seeing while watching a movie with parents.
So as I understand it there is apparently something in the contract for a lot of the in-development movies Disney picked up during the Fox acquisition that says they HAVE to come out in theaters, and Disney is not allowed to just dump them onto streaming because they’re not “their” movies
This, of course, did not foresee a world where going to a theater is a mortal peril