Wild

20 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Who cares about notches 

 

The rounded corners of the screen are more offensive IMO.

Same shit, different radius.

As someone who largely buys Apple products, that notch is the dumbest thing you steal from them.

Not what I expected, but he's a good actor with a lot of charm, so I'm on board with it. I sense a Heath Ledger's Joker bit of internet backtracking, though.

I do wonder what this means for DC's future plans.

On 9/2/2018 at 8:17 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

Damn that's what they did to Kim K. The French are grimy lol

If we judged every nation by its worst the planet wouldn't be worth saving.

Starting to become a big Dave Bautista fan.

DC just needs to hire Gunn to take over the Justice League.

This was OK. Competent genre terrorism, but WAY too many coincidences that weren't necessary to get the scenes they were after. The writers gotta get better at earning their moments.

2 hours ago, Duchess May said:

I don't see there going to be mass appeal with all of the oversaturation of SW films releasing, which clearly hurt Solo.

I actually think it was that Disney overlooked how much the fanbase wasn't interested in a Solo backstory.

I won't get to watch it until later this weekend, but thought we could get up a discussion thread. I'm looking forward to it, although I admit my enthusiasm has waned after waiting for so long after that initial trailer.

Isn't there a kid in this? Most of that trailer feels like it came from 3 or 4 scenes (the jungle where GI Bro gets his men killed, the attack on the bus, which may or may not be at a high school, and then the lab).

Awesome. Last Jedi showed he can do great things with Star Wars, when he doesn't have to care about respecting what came before.

Snyder is the devil. Ok, he's not the devil, he's just a guy that should have stuck to making music videos instead of coming in and fucking up the DC Universe. Dude screwed up the Watchmen on a fundamental level, but since it looked like the comic book and the heads at WB don't actually understand their characters he got a gig he wasn't qualified for.

And now here we are, watching DC not understand that they're lack of giving a shit about the properties they own is why they're in the quagmire they are in, showing no signs of getting out of it. (I mean, really, Thomas Wayne as a Trump-like figure? The fuck are they thinking?)

Sadly, his leaving won't change their plan for how to characterize Wayne.

3 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I never watch miniseries' week-to-week because their structure has always lended itself to binge watching better. I can see how The Night Of would not have been as good if I hadn't binge watched it. 

 

I watch plenty of TV (if I'm caught up with a show) week to week, but anthology shows or miniseries specifically, I wait until the full season is out to watch it. I think there is a distinction to be made there. I waited until all of American Crime Story season 1, Big Little Lies season 1, and The Terror season 1 were out before fully watching them and I think that helped enormously with enjoying all of them.

Yea, I think for me it's all shows now, but almost everything I watch is 10 or so episodes anymore anyway. There are very few 20+ episode network shows I catch anymore. Too much filler in shows like that.

1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

I binged The Night Of and thought it was pretty good, though I think Sharp Objects may be more in line with something like Big Little Lies, which was fantastic, since they are both fully directed (every episode) by Jean-Marc Vallee (also directed The Young Victoria, Dallas Buyers Club, and Wild). 

 

Like you, I plan on binge-ing it, with my wife. Word of mouth is that the show is really, really good. 

Night Of is probably the last non-Game of Thrones series I'll watch week to week. It finally broke me of the format for good, as I watched the characters become ever more ridiculous and do ever stupider things. But, unlike a binge watch where I feel like I might have wasted a couple lazy Sundays, that felt like I invested several weeks into something I ended up not liking much at all. Great production values, but the writing wasn't up to par.

15 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

Snyder totally obliterated...

...Batman's mythos.

...Superman's joy.

...Lex Luthor's stature.

...Jimmy Olsen.

I'm torn on that intro. I love the increased resolution, but I feel like it's missing some of that hand-painted feel that trips my nostalgia.

I've been waiting so I could binge watch it and see if the show sticks the landing. The Night Of burned me on production values over substance. Anyone here see Sharp Objects, and if so did you like it?

Sucks about Affleck, though. I hope he is able to get his shit together. His career had been coming back pretty strong for  minute there.

2 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

It's bloody stupid.

 

I'd always just associated Metropolis with Chicago and Gotham with NYC.

Always the other way for me, since the Animated series architecture feels so much more like Chicago.

It'd be neat to see him in a custom tailored suit, and might be inspiring for others.

3 hours ago, sblfilms said:

This movie is so opressively dumb that I’m having to reconsider everything I thought previously about Shane Black.

Huh.

I've lost most of my interest for this movie now anyway, so delay away. Sucks for the people that lost work I am sure they were depending on because Disney made a knee-jerk reactionary decision to some twitter trolls.

17 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

That would be pretty awesome - I'd watch that premise in a heart beat if executed well. Both are great directors, but just to be clear, did you mean Gareth Edwards or Gareth Evans?

Edwards. I'm a big fan of the way he handles an impending threat in his films, and then pays them off with a sharp sequence. Monsters was a creative low-budget thrill, Godzilla had a genuine sense of foreboding, and Rogue One gave Vader the sort of mythos you would expect the Rebels to hold him up to. He knows that your imagination fills in scarier gaps with subtle clues versus showing everything. I think those skills applied to Bond as the "monster", plus the fact Edwards can clearly get fresh work done in a studio driven environment, would make him a good fit for 007.

But Evans would be pretty sweet, as well. Would have some great fights.

Great article. Always been a huge fan of Jim Henson.