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Still think the first one was the kind of perfect alchemy that feels impossible to repeat. But the trailer does look great.

I assume they were the kind of small roles that were only gonna be in one or two scenes anyway, but those scenes didn't make it to the final cut.

Thelma ain't playin'

Not the biggest fan of the last two but this has me hooked from the trailer. I like most of his stuff but I think his most famous movies (Tenenbaums and Grand Budapest) are easily his best.

70% only? This baby ain't making the 2024 release date. I almost believed we will get an Avatar sequel every two years.

Sure it's been done before but I think not with a movie of that scale. This like Dune or OUATIH is the kind of movie that will get 10x the media buzz/coverage of any other smaller auteur movie in a big festival. It would normally be the start of a large scale marketing push until the release. It will be weird if this open at Cannes with all the breathless coverage a 200m Scorsese-Leo movie would get and then pump the breaks for 3 months to relaunch in September in a smaller festival. This isn't comparable to Parasite or No Country for Old Men. It might come from a streamer but it's still a gigantic movie with a ton of pedigree and star power. And it 'll release in theatres supposedly with all the marketing hoopla that entails. I'm not saying it won't happen. Just noting that it's kind of unprecedented.

Fingers crossed. Weird they'll premiere it at Cannes and not Venice though, with that release date.

Sadly the only way this would be possible was if The Killer wasn't a Netflix film.

And maybe Traffic beats Gladiator since it won every other award it was nominated for, but that's about it.

It would be cool though if this did decent enough to convince Amazon and other streamers to try out some of their stuff in theatres first.

PTA and Leo? I 've heard this song before. Let's hope this time it actually happens.

IMO they are at the same spot Tomb Raider was in 2001. The movie was a big financial success but doesn't seem to be really liked that much by anyone. If the second one is just as generic it could drop heavily into bomb territory like Tomb Raider 2 did. or they should just fire Fleischer, which I doubt they will.

It was a good show but yeah the game is just better. Every one I know who watches this fresh pretty much loved the whole thing, but I still think the gameplay parts with Joel and Ellie add something that the show can't adapt. I think if they had managed to expand a bit their story here and there it would be perfect. How to expand I have no idea, but I'm not the one getting paid to think of that stuff. Anyway the show was really well made and very good. Maybe I'm being a bit like those GOT readers bitching about every little thing even when the show was great anyway. totally agree

Looks fun. This wasn't really on my radar but I'm rooting for it now to be good. Also pretty sure there's gonna be some ridiculous forced discourse on the age gap when it comes out, especially if it does well.

Surprisingly good. I was a bit cold on Creed II and the too much legacy stuff after loving the first one, but this is a great bounce back. And it kinda makes this sub-franchise it's own thing. MBJ has done just great both in front and behind the camera. I think despite whatever backstages shenanigans ensued, Sly must be proud for him.

1.Avatar 2 2.Fabelmans 3.TAR 4.Top Gun Maverick 5.Triangle of Sadness 6.Everything Everywhere All at Once 7.Elvis 8.Banshees of Inisherin 9.All Quiet on the Western Front top 3 is great, the rest range from fine to very good. Strong year overall, no real duds imo unless Women Talking is somehow really bad.

Tommy's oh shit! moment about communism was the funniest bit in the entire show so far.

Very good episode and probably the best looking one so far. I've said they 've done a great job with effects and set decoration for the post apocalyptic cities etc but you can't just beat natural location shooting. I think the writing is a bit on the nose and kinda has to because they 're playing catch up to hours of character development that happen during gameplay. The most popular takedown of the game by haters for years has been that it's just a tv show with some shooting galleries thrown in which is just not true. The struggle is real to keep up, but they 're lucky the cast is so good all around and sells it. Pedro, Bella and Tommy, Maria all absolutely killed it in this episode. I also like that they have the faith in the cast to not adapt all the action set pieces of the game and have infected everywhere. It would look borderline silly if Joel and Ellie were shooting their way out of the University one episode after the Kansas escape and killing Clickers along the way. But it makes you wonder how are they even begin to approach the second game that's twice as action packed and unfolds over a much much shorter timeline.

Not really. Those games flopped because a Tony Stark or a Star Lord without RDJ and Pratt voice/likeness still means very little to people as a draw. They 're not Batman/Spider-Man and I think the same will happen with the Wolverine game they 're making. Probably a sigh of relief that they didn't toss them right away into this multiverse stuff.

how about that kid clicker flexibility? M3gan wishes.

Damien gotta pay the bills after Babylon. Go off King!

Yeah, from the first moment on it screamed they were going for unassuming soft voice nice lady being actually ruthless militia commander or sth. I'm fairly neutral on her so far. Lynskey is a good actrees, maybe she 'll pull it off next episode. As for the ep. I think I'm in the minority that likes this and episode 2 the most so far, which are the two that kinda adapt gameplay instead of the story and that's have been the most interesting thing so far for me. I hope someone finds a bottle of aspirine in a deserted bathroom in a future episode.

Loved it. The entire cast was pretty great, but my MVP was Robbie. I think it's her best performance. The ending was definately a choice. I'm all for it, at least we know Chazelle's favorite blockbusters are all bangers.

Yeah the Prod design is really impressive. One of my favorite things about TLOU in general is that it skips ahead 20 years to the point that the zombie apocaypse is routine. Whatever's left of humanity just gets by in various ways and there are adults born after the fall that never knew the world before. 99% of zombie themed movies and TV just keeps going after outbreak day, which makes sense. Because with such a big time-jump everything gets way more expensive and still runs the risk of looking fake. Thank god HBO got the money and the right people to spend it on.

It was very good but I think the pre-release hype for this one was a bit much. I think it's on par with the other 2 eps which were also pretty great but it wasn't some giant leap imo. Maybe the hype was so big because it was the more radical diversion from the game which was the best thing about it. Those diversions is what will make this show its own thing.