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General audiences connected more with Get Out but I personally found Us to be more interesting and better directed. I think Us was too weird for most people - so hopefully Jordan Peele doesn't steer far away from strangeness with his next movie.

He was a hell of a beat boxer. RIP 

My roommate and I are morbidly curious so we’ll be seeing it tomorrow.

1 hour ago, LazyPiranha said:

Yeah, lots of kids got the old Sir Osis of Liver gag back then too.

I mean the appeal of the Looney Tunes has always been wide. It’s never been exclusively for kids. It’s okay as an adult to criticize both Space Jam movies, as long as proper perspective is kept.

I’m an aspiring writer who writes stories with a younger audience in mind. Does that mean whatever I write gets a free pass for being mindless and cynical just because it’s “for children”? Fuck no! Kids are very impressionable. If anything the standards for entertainment aimed towards a younger audience should be higher, not lower.

Don’t make fun of the movie - it’s for kids. Don’t you know how much children love Casablanca references?!

The cosmic/multi-verse/magic side of the MCU is interesting me much more and making the super spy stuff seem kinda boring in comparison.

I wanna see an alternate timeline where Edgar Wright directed Ant-Man.

It’s one of my favorite movies from the past decade. I caught it multiple times while it was in theaters mostly because that opening scene was such a treat to see on the big screen. A few years later and rewatching it is still cinematic comfort food to me because the experience is more like listening to favorite album than watching a movie again.

Either Snyder drew that himself, or he commissioned an artist to draw it for him. The later seems more likely, but it is crazy to think that this was important enough for him to go to those lengths.

As always, Snyder isn’t known for his subtlety.

I think there gonna be a lot of fights this summer as things continue happening to open back up. A lot of people have forgotten how to interact with others, including myself.

I had the biggest grin during the opening song. Lin’s use of rapping to tell a story has a really energy that other musicals don’t, and this is the first time his music has been put to editing that truly keeps up with that quick pace of information. It’s still hard to imagine Hamilton being adapted into a film, but if it ever does John Chu would make for an excellent choice. Well, either him or Coogler.

I really am glad the first time I saw this was in a theater because it truly is a big screen movie, but I’m also glad it’s on HBO Max so I can go back and rewatch my favorite songs. But I would still heavily advise anyone interested in it to try to catch it in a theater.

11 hours ago, LazyPiranha said:

A bunch of old men yelling at clouds over something not intended for them at all.  If The original space jam came out when I was in my mid-thirties I’d probably hate it too.

Eh, a movie can’t hide behind the “but it’s for children!” defense while also featuring appearances of characters from Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, and The Devil. You gotta pick one.

Also, the Looney Tunes aren’t solely for kids - their humor is universal. If anything I appreciate the old shorts more as an adult. Unfortunately this doesn’t even look like it’s made by people who understand what made the Tunes work so well in the first place, which is pretty much how the first Space Jam was too tbh.

I watched The Muppets movies a lot as a kid, but never got a chance to watch The Muppet Shoe until it hit Disney+. It’s been a real joy experiencing this groundbreaking show for the first time. As much as I love the early Muppet movies, the show maybe makes the best use of the Muppets? They certainly feel better designed for a variety show type format than do for a typical narrative.

What I love about the show is that it pokes fun at variety show while also working as a functional variety show. It’s not like the Eric Andre show that makes fun of talk shows but isn’t really a talk show itself. Each segment is genuinely entertaining, often it’s for humor but even some of the musical segment are played fairly straight. It keeps things fresh and was the perfect show to watch in bed all day as I was recovering from the vaccine.

I just got back from seeing it and it’s well done. So many modern movie musicals such as Les Mis try to keep the visuals more grounded so it was nice to see than John Chu was willing to embrace a more stylized approach for the material. It does feel a bit long, but at least each song feels different visually so it never feels repetitive. They keep introducing new cinematic tricks until the end. Not every successful musical is able to be translate properly to film, but this is easily one of the most successful adaptations of the last ten years, and maybe the most?

My thread about Wright’s new documentary got hardly any attention. Which I get because documentaries aren’t as sexy as traditional movies, but the doc trailer actually features more of what made me fall in love with Wright in the first place. Fun music, quirky humor, unforgettable offbeat characters, etc.

Not to say that this new movies doesn’t look great, because it does, but if you truly are “in it for Wright” then you absolutely should not sleep on his trailer for The Sparks Brothers just because it’s for a documentary.

I’m fairly conditioned to accept older actors playing high schoolers but even then my brain is having a hard time process him as an high schooler.

But I get that Ben Platt is the main reason why the show was as successful as it was. Maybe this would have done better as a filmed performance, where it’s easily to accept someone in their late 20’s playing a teen. The musical theater format doesn’t always translate well to film. Judging by the trailer this doesn’t pull it off as successfully as In the Heights look to do.

On 5/14/2021 at 2:39 PM, Ghost_MH said:

 

Exposure bias is just that real. If you hung around more right-wing circles you'd be exposed to a ton more DC fans than Marvel ones, but then DC movies aren't pulling in as much money and aren't rating as highly as Marvel's. Like how there was "massive" fan outcry for the Snyder Cut and the vast majority of people watching never finished it and even then it did worse numbers than like Godzilla.

 

This site is very much not representative of the greater film watching world. We have an eclectic collection of weirdos around here. We're also a bunch of self aggrandizing hypocrites. I don't know how many folks around here liked Avatar, but I'm fairly certain a plurality of us will still watch the sequels, all four of them. I thought the movie was very pretty, but mostly OK. It was the best live action adaptation of FernGully ever made. I'll probably still watch all of them, and very likely in theaters in spite of how difficult that is for me with so many kids.

I hang around queer and feminist circles that are still discussing Birds of Prey . If these queens aren’t the type that Captain Marvel is made for then I don’t know who is tbh.

29 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I’m glad that I literally never think about what internet doofuses think. I mean, besides all of you.

I don’t care about what the average person thinks but I will ride or die for my online queer community. It’s hard to find a queer community where I currently am, so my online community to me is very much real. And if they aren’t yasss queeening for Captain Marvel, girl, there is something wrong. 

On 5/15/2021 at 3:27 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

I've found that most self proclaimed "film buffs" are pretentious wannabes and largely full of shit. Learned that in film school. I get the best impressions about movies, especially ones I haven't seen from regular old folks who just love a good movie now and then. My siblings and nieces and nephews have all recommended movies to me that I haven't heard of that turned out to be really good. Train to Busan was a movie that wasn't on my radar at ALL but my teen niece who is into all things Korean recommended it to me and it was one of the best movies I saw that year. General audiences who don't take themselves too seriously are pretty much who I trust for the most part. It's why the Oscars are so irrelevant nowadays. The members of the academy have completely lost touch with the viewing public and it wasn't always like that. 

 

That said, I don't know if the name change of the Captain Marvel has anything to do with Marvel losing faith in her... did calling the Ant Man sequel "Ant Man and The Wasp" illustrate that Marvel had lost faith in Paul Rudd? Lack of internet discussion means next to nothing to these companies as long as they perform at the box office and Captain Marvel is still the second highest grossing solo Marvel debut movie after Black Panther. The movie made a BILLION DOLLARS worldwide. With a B. You don't classify that as a failure on ANY level especially with a character that was unknown. Dollars are what make sense in studio land. Its why despite all of the chatter around the Snyderverse on the internet, WB apparently has little to no desire to ressurect his plans for the DC extended Universe especially when their last two films didn't top Godzilla vs Kong OR Mortal Kombat on HBO MAX. The internet really overestimates it's importance in the grand scheme of things... I'm not saying internet buzz doesn't matter. I'm just saying it doesn't matter nearly as much as it thinks it does 

Actually Ant Man did decent but not as much as the normal Marvel movie made. So they added The Wasp to the title hoping a female co-lead would drive up attention to the movie.

It’s not about losing faith in Brie, it’s just a concern that they haven’t figured out the movie yet. Again, I’m arguably the biggest Brie fan on this board but feel like the Marvel movie underutilize her. It has nothing to do against her. I have fair the writers will find a way to make her connect. She’s just in a weird growing period just like Hemsworth was with Thor initially. And look how well he ended up doing. I have faith in Brie and the writers.

lol I think anyone who read my posts, which were admittedly too long, would know that I was in no way attacking my girl Brie. I just haven’t seen any evidence that the character made much of a cultural impact, and I travel in circles where minor character like Valkalyrie are adored. I’m sure Marvel is figuring out a way to make the character resonate better. No tea, no shade. I love Brie but feel like her character is at a similar point that Thor was earlier in the MCU. The character has a cool power set but hasn’t fully connected with audiences yet. I haven’t seen any evidence she has besides the box office numbers. Which cool, Avatar made much more but who gives a flip about Jake Sully lol

I blame the Snyder Cut for all of this.