MrSinister

I liked Detroit, my brother hated it. I think despite both being based on true stories, Detroit is a far more depressing and upsetting story than this. Not that the Klan haven’t done terrible things but this and the truth behind it makes a mockery of their hatred. Detroit was more a study of how wicked people can be when they abuse the power handed to them or look the other way (when the ones meant to protect & serve act to terrorize the community). Despite racial themes the movies themselves should feel different

Brontosauruses? I don't know man, they're ginormous and ginormous beings we expext to move superslow (with the exception of some forms of Godzilla and his cohorfs) so I think because it lingers so long you have time to spot the awkwardness (like jabba the hutt in a new hope special edition. That was a money shot though, so youre right that what was once a jaw dropping scene doesn't impress much if at all 25 years later. The trex holds up much better for instance because of the animatronics...

Well there was that 80s transformers movie (sure it was a cartoon but it was the best one, with the talents of Leonard Nimoy, Orson Wells, Judd Nelson, Scatman Crothers and Peter Cullen still), and they sold a bunch of toys and half my neighborhood has autobot or decepticon insignias on their cars (I’m part Cuban, think it’s common in the Latin American community). For films lacking Spielberg, John Williams etc, Transformers is a Goliath. I mean sure all the movies are terrible besides the first and half of the third but it’s a Goliath!

There will be a JW2.5 civil war-spinosaurus vs indominus that people will claim is not a true JW film because it looks so much worse at the box office before JW3: infinity park releases.

Not sure what that has to do with the Queen's birthday. Is she like secretly a transformers fan? The only connection i could find is she's the 14th cousin once removed from Orson Welles who's last role was voicing Unicron in 1986. Then again TNT in America used to play Godzilla movie marathons for presidents day and New Years because I think Ted Turner likes watchin his demolition skills:

I dunno. It all depends on the music imo. If the sequel has as big a hit as Let it Go, it’s a wrap. The kids will eat it up and demand repeat visits. The little mermaid had under the sea, BaTB had Be our guest, Aladdin had Prince Ali, friend like me and a whole new world, lion king had Elton John’s can you feel the love tonight, circle of life and be prepared, pocohantas had Vanessa Williams’ Colors of the Wind, Mulan has Christina Aguilera’s Reflection. You can almost chart the success of the 90s Disney’s animated films based off the success of their music and I don’t think much has changed only there’s less chart toppers these days Frozen harkens back to that golden age of success for Disney 🎶🎵.

Good point. Bernie was awesome and you really can’t replace him. Though I imagine like every other oceans they’ll add a cast member if they even do it. I remember that last movie with him and Samuel L - Soul Men. Didn’t do great at the box office but it was an authentic, enjoyable comedy.

A lock for 2B WW, a small chance to put the force to bed. We’ll see how it holds up with Fallen Kingdom coming and if there’s any type of AM&TW bump the way it bumped BP (doubt it-AM is a smaller flick)

My guess is they have people who know what they’re doing for less. The Ray Harryhausen of the modern era must work there the way JP1 holds up 25 years later. Look at any other major live action cgi flick from that decade besides T2 up until The Matrix & it looks terrible. Godzilla etc..

You mean these swingin citizens? Maybe, but unfortunately besides Angie I think they’ve all gone on to glory and she’s practically 90. Anyway I’m looking forward to Ocean’s 9 and 10 and maybe Ocean’s 23 where they bring the two remake casts together for one last ride (course that last ones just speculation)...

Not to mention The Meg is basically a Jaws reboot for all intents and purposes (look at its marketing) and it looks like a lot of young people are excited about it.

Blackwashing a Latino character? It’s an odd concept. There are hundreds of millions of Latinos with Afro descent. Usually due to slavery in countries like Colombia those with more African ancestry tend to be poorer, and often in more isolated regions but whether it’s islands cuba, DR, Puerto Rico, or more landlocked areas like Guyana, Brazil, Colombia. Unlike in the US where there was a huge black pride movement at the end of segregation, Spanish, French and Portuguese colonies never really had the one drop rule and a lot of Latinos that aren’t overtly Black aren’t quick to point out their African heritage (as many weren’t quick to celebrate their Indigenous heritage until recently), but with their ancestral heritage a lot of countries that may CIA certify as 10-30% black and 70%+ white (CIA doesn’t consider Latino a race, neither do a lot of these countries) might be closer to 50% if it was America. In the US you really don’t have a lot of mixed race people that consider themselves white or people like Sammy Sosa dieing their skin Casper white and looking at it as an improvement. Of course a lot of the more African Latinos have a harder time making it to the US since like in the US they’ve also historically faced discrimination there so Miles having a distinctly African American father and non Afro Puerto Rican mother is fairly realistic (I realize PR is the US too)

Den of Geek claims between 13 and 10 years pre epIV so it ends at 10 years. I had similar thoughts but swap the dice which I dislike for the same reason I hate the casino scene in TLJ (though not nearly as much [too on the nose for it to make an ancient galaxy far far away seem unlike earth {though I know it’s canon, it’s a brief missable canon in the original like the alien head on a predator ship or the crystal skull here}]) with woody Harrelson (who I thought turned in one of the funniest performances of the film, kind of like the sarcastic droid in rogue one). Also i’d swap Maul with Thandie and Emilia (it was cool to see maul but he did nothing and showing his double light saber in that instance felt forced sort of like a non cringey version of Boba’s cgi look to the camera from the end of the Jabba insertion into the world IV special edition {If there were a chance of a sequel where his backstory doesn’t get lost on the bulk of the audience and he’s given a longer cameo I’d appreciate him more at the risk of jeapordizing Hans lack of faith in the force when we first meet him, though maybe he only runs into Lando and kills off his people or something} overall though he wasn’t bad as he showed more personality than in ep I). I liked Val for the bit she was there for and found Emilia played the survivor out for self double agent role well when backed into a corner. I’d give Solo an A-... Seriously!? I thought for sure you’d like it. I guess going in with low expectations helped me, but your avatar being more accurate than if they used a time machine to go a long time ago and grab a young Billy Dee alone makes this >>> TLJ to me It not being a rehash of a film we’ve seen before only if Luke Skywalker best Vader to with an inch of his life with no outside help in their first encounter made it > TFA The lack of cheesy dialogue or wacky cgi effects meant to please children > the prequels (save the good parts of RoTS and the Maul fight). And the lack of terrible musical numbers and cgi additions (proxima hadn’t me worried a second) made it better than 90% of the additions that made the rerelease of the originals the “special” additions. But I guess unless you’re grading everything outside of the originals and rogue one as if they were the Ewok films were have a difference of opinion on them

Assume you mean before mauls death in rebels. This is way after phantom menace in case you were implying that. Maul (edit: originally auto correct wrote mayo) survives in the cartoons. I like that Solo actually brings elements from the shows and games like maul surviving and masters of teras kasi. That seems like something Marvel is scared to do (they do the reverse) and DC would take a million years to do. anyway I agree with the two posts above. A fun, witty, well acted romp through the galaxy that explains away issues like the 12 parsec kessel run (now it being speed and distance makes sense) and how Han “won” the falcon fair and square (you know it sounded like there was more story there and with two “old buddies” like this, fair and square dealing ain’t realistic). Did I mention the acting. Han was great to watch even if he hasn’t developed fully, Lando couldn’t have been done any better, Chewie is always Chewie, as someone else mentioned Emilia Clarke has never looked better (and she acted quite believably to the point I only remembered it was her at the end), and the crew Han joins are definitely a fun bunch, his kind of people that feel very rogue one (did I mention how great l3 is?) This felt new and welcome, unlike anything else Star Wars from Disney save Rogue-One. Shame it is doing so poorly...

To add a couple more I can think of he wasn’t in any of the Blade, Punisher, Ghost Rider or Men in Black films (though maybe MiB isn’t so surprising since Marvel acquired it through purchase in the 90s, not when it was originally penned). He surprised in Big Hero 6 and kickass though (which are by marvel sub studios).