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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 30, 2022 19:43:48 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. The Black Phone
3. Firestarter
4. Where the Crawdads Sing (really good film that I wouldn't have the attention span to appreciate at home)
5. Uncharted
6. Scream
7. Operation Mincemeat
8. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
9. Jurassic World: Dominion
10. Thor: Love and Thunder
11. Everything Everywhere All at Once
12. The Lost City
13. Morbius
14. Moonfall
15. Death on the Nile
16. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
17. Ambulance
18. Nightmare Alley
19. The Batman
20. The 355
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 4, 2022 20:50:32 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. The Black Phone
3. Firestarter
4. Where the Crawdads Sing
5. Bullet Train (very slick, superbly choreographed)
6. Uncharted
7. Scream
8. Operation Mincemeat
9. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
10. Jurassic World: Dominion
11. Thor: Love and Thunder
12. Everything Everywhere All at Once
13. The Lost City
14. Morbius
15. Moonfall
16. Death on the Nile
17. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
18. Ambulance
19. Nightmare Alley
20. The Batman
21. The 355
Quote of the day: "Let this be a lesson in the toxicity of anger."
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2022 14:36:43 GMT
Thor 4 was...not good.
Tickets booked for Mrs Ralph and I for the new 4k version of the directors cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and 4k Wrath of Khan for late Aug/early Sept.
Got next Wednesday off work so booked for Bullet Train and Minions 2.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 10, 2022 15:50:29 GMT
Bullet Train wasn't too bad. Minions 2 made me laugh.
Not bad for a day off.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 12, 2022 15:33:17 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. The Black Phone
3. Firestarter
4. Where the Crawdads Sing
5. Bullet Train
6. Nope
7. Uncharted
8. Scream
9. Operation Mincemeat
10. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
11. Jurassic World: Dominion
12. Thor: Love and Thunder
13. Everything Everywhere All at Once
14. The Lost City
15. Morbius
16. Moonfall
17. Death on the Nile
18. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
19. Ambulance
20. Nightmare Alley
21. The Batman
22. The 355
Yep.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 19, 2022 14:01:41 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 19, 2022 14:03:22 GMT
Not quite. Filing for bankruptcy doesn't automatically mean going under. |
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 19, 2022 15:52:03 GMT
Takings have recovered well enough it seems. Its the debt from buying up various chains around the world pre pandemic thats hurting them.
will probably survive in some form.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 20, 2022 21:49:18 GMT
Star Trek: The Motion Picture! Magical on the big screen! Our first Saturday night cinema trip since before Covid.
Cinema in general was very quiet. No wonder Cineworld is in trouble if the Saturday night crowds haven't come back.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 21, 2022 10:31:55 GMT
Current league table for 2022:
1: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2022 Director's Edition).
2: Top Gun: Maverick (IMAX).
3: Minions: The Rise of Gru.
4: Bullet Train.
5: Jurassic World: Dominion (IMAX)
6: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (IMAX).
7: Thor: Love and Thunder.
8: Everything Everywhere All At Once.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 21, 2022 18:50:06 GMT
The Motion Picture felt really different on the big screen.
Honestly it might just be that its the first time Ive ever watched it when it was my sole focus.
I also realised just how close it feels to TOS if you ignore the beige bits of uniform. Some of the shots of Spock in his blue uniform against some of the sets could have come straight out of the series.
And of course Deckers horniness saving the day is right out of TOS playbook.
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 21, 2022 18:59:05 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home
2. Moonfall.
3. Death on the Nile
4. The Batman
5. Morbius
6. The Lost City
7. Dr Strange ITMOM
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Sonic 2
10. Chip and Dale
11. Top Gun Maverick
12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX
13. The Lion King 2 (disney+)
14. JP: Dominion
15. Lightyear
16. Thor: Love and Thunder - Seems to have split opinion. I enjoyed it, but slightly too much going on or the script not being quite as tight means it doesnt top Ragnorak. Even though Bale, Crow and Portman are fantastic and Darcy returns.
17. Bullet Train - Kinda great. Visually cool and the script kept me guessing (far more than it needed to to keep my attention) and right till the end.
18. Star Trek The Motion Picture: It is hilariously paced. How much of the run time is made up of slow fly bys? Love it though.
It, Insurrection and Beyond really are the closest the movies came to big screen episodes.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 23, 2022 17:59:54 GMT
Top Gun: Maverick gets its streaming release today and every YouTube movie-reaction-poster’s head explodes.
I’ve put in my steelbook pre-order and will try to resist the temptation to see it a third time in the cinema while I wait.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 23, 2022 18:07:12 GMT
Can you go to the cinema yet?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 23, 2022 18:12:16 GMT
Yes, I’ve been fine since Saturday.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 29, 2022 16:43:27 GMT
I see that the World of Cine has the most recent Spider-Man film on this Saturday. Booked for that as it has yet to appear on Disney Plus.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 31, 2022 15:31:15 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home
2. Moonfall.
3. Death on the Nile
4. The Batman
5. Morbius
6. The Lost City
7. Dr Strange ITMOM
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Sonic 2
10. Chip and Dale
11. Top Gun Maverick
12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX
13. The Lion King 2 (disney+)
14. JP: Dominion
15. Lightyear
16. Thor: Love and Thunder
17. Bullet Train
18. Star Trek The Motion Picture
19. Dragonball Super something something: Exactly what I would expect from a Dragonball film despite my only previous experience being Dragonball Z which I saw 20 years ago.
20. Minions 2 : I went for the free icecream. I fell asleep briefly towards the end.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 2, 2022 6:40:34 GMT
I see that the World of Cine has the most recent Spider-Man film on this Saturday. Booked for that as it has yet to appear on Disney Plus. -Ralph Oh right, and this is the extended cut, released in cinemas today, about 11 minutes longer than the previous release. I better go see it. Three Thousand Years of Longing is also out now. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2022 16:04:16 GMT
Feck me sideways. I did not expect Spider-Man: No Way Home to be *that* good. I was expecting disposeable gimmicky nonsense but it had a proper story and great dialogue. I even get a bit teary during certain scenes.
Now I understand how it pulled it in the crowds during peak covid when it was first released.
Couldn't tell what was 'new footage' as a first-time viewer as I didn't detect any fat that needed to be cut.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 3, 2022 16:28:59 GMT
Top film.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 3, 2022 21:32:59 GMT
Watching Uncharted. Narratively very similar to the games; I see it's based on Uncharted 4 - the first half hour is almost exactly the same. It works, my only problem is that all of the characters are about ten years younger than they are in the games and I can't get past that. Tom Holland is just too young to be Nathan Drake. He comes across as a sassy teenager with a chip on his shoulder in this, whereas one of the more endearing characteristics of Nathan in the games is his world-weariness.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2022 10:17:29 GMT
1: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2022 Director's Edition).
2: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (2022 Director's Edition re-release): good but seeing it in a cinema setting after seeing TMP does show up how cheap it is in comparison.
3: Top Gun: Maverick (IMAX).
4: Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release)
5: Minions: The Rise of Gru.
6: Bullet Train.
7: Jurassic World: Dominion (IMAX)
8: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (IMAX).
9: Thor: Love and Thunder.
10: Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Ten films! Usually I would have seen ten films by the end of January in a typical year, but still more than in 2020 and I saw none at all in 2021. Covid and all that.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 4, 2022 19:21:56 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release)
3. The Black Phone
4. Firestarter
5. Where the Crawdads Sing
6. Bullet Train
7. Nope
8. Uncharted
9. Scream
10. Operation Mincemeat
11. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
12. Jurassic World: Dominion
13. Thor: Love and Thunder
14. Everything Everywhere All at Once
15. The Lost City
16. Morbius
17. Moonfall
18. Death on the Nile
19. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
20. Ambulance
21. Nightmare Alley
22. The Batman
23. The 355
Thank goodness for Top Gun: Maverick. I really wouldn't want the best film of 2022 to be 90% identical to a film released the previous year. But the (improved) extended cut of Spider-Man almost does that.
Most of the extra stuff felt like it was in the first act, pre-spell. Pretty much all the Betty Brant stuff was newly added, some new J.J.J. and Flash stuff, a bit more pre-finale chat atop the Statue of Liberty, and there's a new end-of-end-credits scene (where there was previously a Dr Strange 2 preview).
Intrigued by the three-actors introduction that the start, which assumes everyone has already seen the previous version, as it completely spoils what was the main big surprise last time around, when most of the audience didn't know _they_ were in it.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 4, 2022 19:45:16 GMT
Extending MCU films is new for Marvel isn't it? I bought the Blu-ray of this, do I now need to buy another one? I note doing a bit of digging that there were five deleted scenes listed as Blu-ray extras on the initial solicits for it, which then weren't on the actual release.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 4, 2022 20:35:23 GMT
Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 5, 2022 10:05:14 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home
2. Moonfall.
3. Death on the Nile
4. The Batman
5. Morbius
6. The Lost City
7. Dr Strange ITMOM
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Sonic 2
10. Chip and Dale
11. Top Gun Maverick
12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX
13. The Lion King 2 (disney+)
14. JP: Dominion
15. Lightyear
16. Thor: Love and Thunder
17. Bullet Train
18. Star Trek The Motion Picture
19. Dragonball Super something something:
20. Minions 2
21. Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn - Nice.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 5, 2022 22:50:02 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home
2. Moonfall.
3. Death on the Nile
4. The Batman
5. Morbius
6. The Lost City
7. Dr Strange ITMOM
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Sonic 2
10. Chip and Dale
11. Top Gun Maverick
12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX
13. The Lion King 2 (disney+)
14. JP: Dominion
15. Lightyear
16. Thor: Love and Thunder
17. Bullet Train
18. Star Trek The Motion Picture
19. Dragonball Super something something:
20. Minions 2
21. Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn
22. Spider-Man: No Way Home more fun edition - That was more fun.
And Ive seen it in Imax, regular 2D and now ScreenX.
ScreenX was fun, I was the only on in the cinema. Sat central and just the right distance back to take in all of the side projection bits.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 5, 2022 22:59:28 GMT
Feck me sideways. I did not expect Spider-Man: No Way Home to be *that* good. I was expecting disposeable gimmicky nonsense but it had a proper story and great dialogue. I even get a bit teary during certain scenes. Now I understand how it pulled it in the crowds during peak covid when it was first released. Couldn't tell what was 'new footage' as a first-time viewer as I didn't detect any fat that needed to be cut. -Ralph Thank goodness for Top Gun: Maverick. I really wouldn't want the best film of 2022 to be 90% identical to a film released the previous year. But the (improved) extended cut of Spider-Man almost does that. Most of the extra stuff felt like it was in the first act, pre-spell. Pretty much all the Betty Brant stuff was newly added, some new J.J.J. and Flash stuff, a bit more pre-finale chat atop the Statue of Liberty, and there's a new end-of-end-credits scene (where there was previously a Dr Strange 2 preview). Intrigued by the three-actors introduction that the start, which assumes everyone has already seen the previous version, as it completely spoils what was the main big surprise last time around, when most of the audience didn't know _they_ were in it. Martin At this point I would guess most people know what they are going to see. The extra footage improves an already good film, but I can also see why it was cut originally. Especially on first viewing, you don't need it and it kept the run time down a little bit. But the more Ive rewatched it I did notice how you really dont get to see a lot of what Peters life has become. They go from May/June to early November very quickly. Those extra few minutes kind of explain why Peter is so willing to go to Strange. The rest is just fun to see. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 6, 2022 5:52:44 GMT
Does anybody know how Peter got the bad guys out of the magic force-field cells?
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 8, 2022 16:54:35 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release)
3. The Black Phone
4. Firestarter
5. Where the Crawdads Sing
6. Bullet Train
7. Three Thousand Years of Longing (an enjoyable, offbeat oddity)
8. Nope
9. Uncharted
10. Scream
11. Operation Mincemeat
12. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
13. Jurassic World: Dominion
14. Thor: Love and Thunder
15. Everything Everywhere All at Once
16. The Lost City
17. Morbius
18. Moonfall
19. Death on the Nile
20. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
21. Ambulance
22. Nightmare Alley
23. The Batman
24. The 355
Three Thousand Years is a satisfyingly intelligent modern twist on the story of Aladdin, with two very likeable leads. Recommend seeing.
Martin
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