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This film is super boring, but I gotta admit, they don't make movies like this any more and that's sad. A big-budget studio movie that's a thriller, not an action franchise. And it worked, cause these movies were successful - adjusted, this grossed the same as Batman v Superman. Can't imagine that these days - I mean last year, I just checked and the highest grossing live action movie that's not part of a franchise was Central Intelligence with 127M... it's just depressing. It's a thriller.

That's a completely fair question and if all that is true, then I wouldn't blame Gibson at all. I just mean that regardless, it still leaves me uneasy watching it; the production explanation behind it doesn't mean that it suddenly works in the film, if that makes sense. I generally try to separate how I feel about a film to the production behind it.

The guy I saw it with suggested this. Was wondering why it was ridden with so many clichés and he said maybe those are clichés and have been overused throughout cinema, because that's how it actually was back then. Huh, that is interesting. The low budget showed in a lot of places (the CGI was veeeeerrry ropey) so that would make sense. I don't think it justifies the execution though.

Quite an odd clash of two different stories. First act is cliché ridden and cheesy, young adult romance movie. I just read a review which compared it to a Nicholas Sparks novel/film and I think that is accurate. Second act is a gritty, scary and thoroughly engaging war movie. It's really difficult to figure out why on earth Mel Gibson opted to make the first half in the way he did. Is it to make the second half even more impactful? It doesn't gel with me anyway. Second half is really solid, impressive filmmaking. Very visceral and a much more intense portrayal of WW2 than other movies have been. It was terrifying and in parts completely insane. Not perfect but very good and more than makes up for the strange first half. Other points; I thought portraying the Japanese as insects/rats/zombies was very unnecessary and it left a sour taste in my mouth. Also, this is an unusual film in that if it were an original story, it would have been 100x worse and not worked at all. Rare to see that. Finally - the best use of Vince Vaughn in many years.

The electro-jazz John Legend song is the only good song from "La La Land"

Silence is a very old-fashioned film, we don't get many of them and when they are made, they bomb. It sucks. But I am very grateful to have the privilege to experience it.

Oh sorry, I must have misread you. I thought you were talking about films that have 'messages'. And yes, Starship Troopers is an excellent example of a film being relevant to the real world post-release.

FUCK, I missed this thread. What a movie though. I hope the film is held up in high regard through time - I don't think anyone can call themselves a true fan of cinema until they have had to endure this.

um, you're the one who is suggesting that the rebels stealing the Death Star plans is an analogy for Barack Obama deleting databases of Muslims. even though this story was first created 40 years ago.

I hope La La Land doesn't win after all its nominations. I know Hollywood has a hard on for the film and to be fair the film is sucking hollywoods dick, BUT it can still lose screenplay, both acting ones, editing, score, sound editing/mixing, and cinematography.

£5M for T2 is incredible! So glad a British film is actually successful this year.

isn't too bad? a 35% drop for a horror movie like this is AMAZING.

BvS is the sequel to Man of Steel, I wouldn't really call it a Batman movie, even if he's in it. In the same way that Civil War isn't an Iron Man movie.

Great videos Tele - you should be an editor or something... Good lists too, nice to see some love for The Lobster and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. I still don't understand everyone's hard on for Arrival though.

hmm, maybe I'll buy it at some point. DoS is clearly the better Hobbit movie and for me, at least in part, it's closer to what the lord of the rings should have been than the lotr trilogy actually is. I love the LOTR movies but DoS is more like what I had always imagined the books to be.

is the extended versiono worth watching?

I consciously noticed that quite a few scenes were out of focus. I don't know anyone else who thinks this though so maybe we are crazy

quiet fool, this movie was rad.

Yeah they're not releasing an audio commentary version to cinemas lol

About 10 minutes ago. Just tried again:

The first two pictures are from A Bigger Splash, which is an erotic thriller/drama/ It's awesome and Dakota Johnson is superb (well, all 4 central actors are fab). And yeah, I liked Ghostbusters. Of all the expensive franchise movies this year, the rest of which were pretty shoddy, it felt honest and innocent and it was just really funny. I really enjoyed myself.

idk, when I sent it to him it just said "This user cannot receive messages." normally it should say inbox full so not sure whats going on.