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  1. Hatebox
    Gonna be weird hearing Bale with his actual accent. But Mangold movies are always worth a look, and the American angle should ensure it does a bit better than Rush.
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    Forget being too old, Elba's too famous for Bond at this point. The actors should be up and comers before taking the part, not already huge A-listers. I do think that PR pretty much dictates they have to get a non-white actor to play it next time, though.
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    She hasn't had an unqualified hit solo album for ten years, so I don't think it's too off the mark to say that. As far as her music goes she's basically a legacy act at this point, which no doubt partly informed her decision to branch out into stuff like this.
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    Yes, it did. It almost certainly isn't going to be one of the top 5 films released this year, but sometimes you just have to acknowledge a film for posterity's sake.
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    Awful idea. Apart from the fact that most SH movies really, really don't deserve Best Picture noms no matter how much their fans love them, it lets the Academy off the hook from just having the guts to consider genuinely great blockbusters as worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with indies. Even allowing more than 5 noms was a capitulation, but this is just nuts.
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    Unpopular opinion: I've only seen the first Guardians but it didn't strike me as the kind of property that depended on an irreplaceable auteur writer/director. Like, fair enough, the source material is probably way more out there and Gunn did well to reign it in and place it comfortably in the MCU wheelhouse, but if someone new does step in I don't think it'd be terribly hard for them to just run with what's already been established.
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    Fury Road's great but any movie that's called one of the best of its genre will invariably get its naysayers.
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    Oh my god.
  9. Hatebox
    This site in a nutshell: people arguing about a movie acronym you can't even decipher. ETA: oh wait, I just got it.
  10. Hatebox
    As others have mentioned, the movie has no 'signature' action scene. I suppose it was meant to be the skydive, since it was featured in posters, but it doesn't feel like it when the scene plays out.
  11. Hatebox
    The Paris and London scenes were a lot of fun. The helicopter finale went on waaaay too fucking long for its own good, they needed to shave at least 5 minutes off that. Incidentally, is the next film already confirmed or am I just imagining that?
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    Liked it quite a bit. A slow start but the second half is as full-on as you'd hope. 'One of the best action films ever' is seriously pushing it though - just go in expecting another solid M:I entry.
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    I predicted the film would be crap but would still make lots of money, so I was more right than anyone.
  14. Hatebox
    This will likely be the only blockbuster I watch at the cinema this summer. Looks like the franchise has hit an absolute sweet spot.
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    Haven't read the tweets so can't comment on this case, but in the next 20 years or so this is going to be very, very common. A lot of people were writing shit online in the naughties without thinking of the consequences.
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    The last one's performance must be one of my bigger crow-eating moments. I thought the marketing was relying on non-existent nostalgia for the first but in the end none of that mattered. It was just the perfect all-ages vehicle for the Rock.
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    Regardless of the movie's quality, or lack thereof, it's been a strangely boring one to follow on this forum - as the meager size of this thread perhaps attests. No real elation or meltdowns.
  18. Hatebox
    What's the record OW drop from one mega-opener to its sequel? JW2 will surely approach it, depending on your definition of 'mega-opener'?
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    This was a weird page to enter into this thread on for the first time.
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    This video gives quite a good idea: (TL;DW: you can just about recapture the horror of the original, but the sense of awe and novelty for these creatures is gone forever. Even if the sequels had solid enough scripts, and so far none of them have, they're already fighting a losing battle.)
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    Damn, you quoted me before my edit - I of course meant to say 'sequel' rather than 'movie'. But yes: joking aside this franchise's only hope is in doing something radically different. No more idiots going back the island for ridiculous reasons. Also, it's fine to lean into the schlockier aspects but it's still got to have a good script, so fire Trevorrow.
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    Being utter shite. (But you knew I meant that 😝) I'll make you deal: when they finally make a good JP sequel, I'll like it. You surely can't say fairer than that? 😀
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    I'm not gonna lie, I'm enjoying the RT right now. Even if it's a bad film in its own right I'm going to take it as partly paying for the sins of its predecessor.
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    I'd sooner rewatch JP3 over Lost World and JW. Don't @ me.
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    CGI is such a fact of life for blockbusters it's almost impossible to be impressed by it. You now only notice CGI when it's badly done. I recall JW had a couple of dodgy moments though, particularly that close-up scene of the raptor's head in vice cage. It looked absolute gash.
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