Joel M

I 've watched this year in theatres: Megan Babylon Creed 3 Scream 6 (x2) John Wick 4 Mario Gotg 3 Little Mermaid Spiderverse (x2) Flash No Hard Feelings Indiana Jones MI7 and Barbie this weekend will make it 16, which is almost double the amount of times I went in 2021-22.

So should everyone in here start every post with "in my opinion"? Isn't that a given? There's a ton of people in this forum making generalizations all the time about X movie being "objectively" bad or good, or pushing their opinion as the general consensus based on "facts". I'm pretty sure I've never been one of them. So no idea what bothered you on my post.

Wait... What?

And yet it's still a masterpiece.

The Greta erasure.

Greta needs to spend the weekend thinking of ways to get out of her Narnia contract.

No one expects him to do oscar bait or arthouse, but his populist movies used to be much better and he used to give a shit in them. Last few years he just had the Jumanji sequel and Jungle Cruise that were passable and he is on autopilot and the trio from hell (Hobbs&Shaw-Red Notice-Black Adam).

There's no rush for one of the few that can command big budgets for original projects to go back to smaller movies. Blank checks most of the times don't last forever, even Spielberg that dominated Hollywood for 3 decades had troubles get bigger projects off the ground after that. Nolan is just 52, he has decades ahead of him to go back to smaller movies eventually.

This releases here late August in line with every previous July Nolan movie. No Barbenheimer for me☹️

It's probably the weakest of the last three if only by default because it's still very very good. The action is so crisp and so well staged, it pretty much mops the floor with any other action blockbuster that came out this year. The mega set piece at the end especially was masterful. The way they kept delaying the motorcycle jump that;s been the most publicized stunt of the movie was really well thought out and dare I say with a meta wink at the audience. The new additions are also great, I was worried Pom Klementieff might be a wordless henchman that will just die in the end, but thank god. If anything this movie lacks compared to the last 2 McQ movies is efficiently given economic exposition. There's a few too many scenes of characters sitting around explaining obvious things to each other that kinda hurts the pace of the movie. But the thing that really bugged me was Ilsa's death. It was both so uneccesary and anticlimatic, it almost gave me Black Widow in Endgame flashbacks. I guess I'll have to wait for part 2 to make it definitive and that there's no mask silly buisness involved, but at the moment it feels like the first big moment the franchise has bungled in ages.

The only thing I'm not loving at first glance is the amount of CGI that seems to be on par with any disney live action adaptation. I just thought this would be more tactile for some reason. Otherwise looks fine, and so is Timmy. I'm still waiting to hear him sing though, I thought there would be at least a snippet on the first trailer but alas.

I feel at this point, if the movie hits in Japan they should just keep hiding it a little more.

I think Spiderverse won't happen if only because it's the middle movie and ends on a cliffhanger. I wonder if it can at least break through to other categories like the big PIXARs used to do. That will be a sign they 're taking this as seriously as golden era PIXAR, and the next one could make a play for BP nom if it lands as well as Across.

Social media reactions are beyond meaningless but you could see Goose coming for MVP of this movie from a mile away. Best actor of his generation about to get his flowers.

It looks good but yeah that needle drop is so hilarious makes it difficult to take it seriously. A lot of impressive and promising footage, in an almost tropic thunder spoof goofy-ass trailer. still hope it's as good as it looks.

I guess it was not terrible. I actually really liked where it went in the final act and it was fun at times. PWB was fine, Ford was engaged etc but at the same time I was never really that much into it. It's just the premise of having to have 80 year old Ford being at the centre of the action that kind of tanks this movie and all the good things it has going for it. Every action set piece felt like it was going on for too long because they clearly tried to cut around as much as possible from Ford, cut away from his running so we don't have 20 moments like DeNiro in the Irishman kicking the guy in the sidewalk. And the less said about the de-aging stuff, the better. But there's enough juice in the IJ premise and old-timey era, even in this movie that kinda makes me want them to do another one. Bite the bullet and recast, drop all the lore characters, ofc lower the budget way the fuck down and just do a solo adventure. It might actually work.

The interest was there since it became a Greta/Baumbach/Robbie project, I agree. And it was really buzzed about throughout the endless cast anouncements starting with Gosling, while at the same time Oppenheimer was casting the other half of Hollywood. Then they released the barbie in a car first photo, and a month after the Gosling first look pic and somewhere in between the anounced the release date and Barbenheimer was born. The roller blade looks on the beach that went mega-viral was a couple of months after that. There was huge online interest about that movie from the start.

Wasn't the first Barbie material we got just a pic of Margot laughing inside a car? I remember even that one went viral immediately.

Sure, but it's still mainly a streamer movie that could have just done a half-hearted limited release and be put up on streaming 2 weeks later, despite the 200m budget. I don't think anyone really expects this or Napoleon to actually make enough in theatres to justifie their budgets. I mean in the traditional way of looking at things, if this makes 400M (it won't), it will be simultaneously the biggest Leo-Scorsese movie in the boxoffice and still a financial flop. I'm also a little curious about how much of a proper big theatrical release this will be. Sure it 'll play wide, and in IMAX, but who knows for how long. If it's on streaming a month after release like Air even 100m which would have been almost certain for any Marty-Leo collab, isn't anymore.

Cannot wait for this movie. I have stayed clear from details about the true story beyond what's already in the promos but this sure seems like another trailer cut for maximum mainstream appeal. I doubt the movie will be as "action" packed as advertised. Are there any info about when this will release outside of america?

The main thing TLJ sets up is Kylo being the actual villain/final boss and not someone to be redeemed and saved from the influence of an even evil-er dude like Snoke or the Emperor. That would have been interesting to see. How that storyline would go I have no idea but I'm not paid millions to write a Star Wars movie. I bet my house whatever version of that would be way better than pulling Palpy's corpse out of your ass to be the big bad.

After reading the last few pages, I gotta say I'm glad TLJ ruined so many peoples childhoods. Kinda deserved.

Ofc he earned it, but that's absolutely nuts considering his movies even at his peak were never even wide released in most of the western markets.

wow, the wind rises was a loss? It didn't do as high as his fantasy themed movies but still did over 100m just in Japan. Like how big was that budget for the movie to be a loss?

Yeah agree to disagree on that one. He "fell off" because he had two nuclear bombs in a row. It happens. To me the Pirate sequels have more heart, soul and creativity than 95% of blockbusters that have come out since, and Dead Man's Chest is actually the best of them. Also Gore has other non-Pirate movies that are great. Anyway I also don't think Mangold is a hack. He's a steady hand, it's just that his best movies top out at "pretty good" for me. I sincerely hope the new IJ is at least on that level, I won't be watching until probably after the weekend.