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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2017 9:22:41 GMT
Passing on Beauty and the Beast 2017 as I am The One Person who thinks the original was poo anyway. Thought the last update on a Disney cartoon was crap anyway (The Jungle Book). "We've made a live action update!". No, you haven't. It's still a cartoon! CGI is animation, you fools! Nothing was real! Except for the kid (though not in long shots). Live-action my hairy arse! Not one real animal in it! Fuck, that movie still annoys me.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Mar 25, 2017 9:25:22 GMT
I'm the one person who's never seen the original Beauty and the Beast!!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2017 9:27:29 GMT
It's not good.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 25, 2017 10:43:25 GMT
I've no idea when it came out, but I watched the new version of Swallows and Amazons last week. That's much better than I expected it to be. Proper old school children's adaptation.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 25, 2017 10:44:12 GMT
No Beauty and the Beast is any good unless it's got Linda Hamilton in it looking all pouty-wistful.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2017 14:11:37 GMT
I've no idea when it came out, but I watched the new version of Swallows and Amazons last week. That's much better than I expected it to be. Proper old school children's adaptation. It had a week's exhibition last year. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2017 14:12:04 GMT
No Beauty and the Beast is any good unless it's got Linda Hamilton in it looking all pouty-wistful. You are correct. Except for the last season. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2017 14:12:26 GMT
'Life' is shite.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 25, 2017 17:55:23 GMT
I've just realised I watched three seasons of the Kristen Kreuk version and then completely forgot to watch the fourth. I'm not sure why I did either of those things.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 25, 2017 17:56:08 GMT
Oh yes I am. Kristen Kreuk does pouty-wistful almost as well as Linda Hamilton.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 26, 2017 17:19:25 GMT
I am shocked that I enjoyed the Power Rangers 2017 film. I usually find PR to be unwatchable crap but that film was fun!
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Mar 26, 2017 18:24:26 GMT
It LOOKS fun.
I cannot stand most of the redesigns, feeling like it looked too hard at everything Bay did wrong for TF, instead of following Pacific Rim, but by jove it looks like it's a really fun movie anyway.
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Post by legios on Mar 26, 2017 19:09:18 GMT
I am shocked that I enjoyed the Power Rangers 2017 film. I usually find PR to be unwatchable crap but that film was fun! -Ralph Good grief! That is unexpected, and yet matches the feedback I am seeing in other venues. The consensus seems to be "not big or clever, but entertaining enough". Not what I had expected from the early promotion at all. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 26, 2017 20:24:31 GMT
It LOOKS fun. I cannot stand most of the redesigns, feeling like it looked too hard at everything Bay did wrong for TF, instead of following Pacific Rim, but by jove it looks like it's a really fun movie anyway. I honestly care diddly squat about Power Rangers in general, so I cannot speak for how much the designs or overall plot adhered to previous stuff. All I can say is that it passed for an entertaining couple of hours in the cinema and I thought it was fun tosh on its own merits. -Ralph |
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Post by Toph on Mar 26, 2017 20:39:58 GMT
It's more that I don't care for this shrapnel skeletal robots that make no logical sense to their alt modes and pointless redesigning just to be different thing the TF movies started, that PR seems to take to the next level.
Pacific Rim visually seems far more believable and solid for giant robots. Gypsy Danger looks like it would mess you up, while the megazord looks like it'd get knocked over in a strong wind, and couldn't take more than a few hits before disintegrating.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 26, 2017 20:52:07 GMT
Well all I can say is that in context I thought all the designs in PR looked fine on film in context. I could tell who was doing what and where and unlike Transformers movies the editing was calm so I could tell what was going on.
PR was also helped by excellent sound design and mixing, which helped make things feel solid on screen. Some of the more inventive rear-channel use I have heard in a theatre for a while.
I thought Pacific Rim was crap. Sorry! Just so boring and I couldn't tell what was going on.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2017 21:04:58 GMT
Saw Ghost in the Shell 2017 version. Well, I can't say it doesn't respect the source material: the 1995 film version at any rate. The plot is intact. Many scenes are ported over. Several shots are even replicated. Yet it just had no spark to it or any sense of life. Just sort of plodded along until it ended. I was really bored and didn't mind that I had to have a loo break. Doesn't help that the lead performance is utterly leaden. I literally did not give a shit about this version of the Major.
I wonder how it will play with viewers not acquainted with previous versions of GITS.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2017 21:07:36 GMT
In front of GITS was the Baywatch trailer, which was new to me. Looks awful!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 31, 2017 21:32:34 GMT
Awful awful or awful because it doesn't have Pam An or Yasmine in it?
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2017 21:33:39 GMT
It just looked crap in its own right and did not make me want to see it.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Mar 31, 2017 22:21:20 GMT
Ralphs just described my memory of the original GITS. I got it over 20 years ago and think I only ever watched it once. Never bothered with the series and am also indifferent to the live action one now.
But who knows, I found Beauty and the Beast 2017 rather good and I was far worse than indifferent to that.
Saw Power Rangers last week. Its probably not an original thought to say it has learnt from Transformers mistakes, the film is mature without loosing all the shows cheesy identity. Of course they barely have to feature the zords which Transformers couldnt get away with. Maybe a fairer comparison is to Fantastic Four. The last FF film would have worked great (or at least better) if the tone had been closer to Power Rangers.
Beauty and the Beast - not up to the original but improves on one or two little things and pleasantly expands on others. Emma Thompsoms Mrs Potts must be burned from existence.
Power Rangers -
John wick 2 - Maybe not as good as the first one but this is how to make a sequel. I was worried it would take the Taken route and have some one kill his dog again, but thankfully not.
Logan - Yes!
Hidden Figures - Absolutely nothing shocking happens, there are no twists and turns and yet its a joy to watch.
Lego Batman - I was dubious about following up the Lego Movie with a Batman spin off, but it works.
Lion
Why him
Is that it? I need to see more films.
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Post by Toph on Apr 1, 2017 7:59:23 GMT
Saw Power Rangers last night (thursday)
It shouldn't work. In theory there's not a single part of this movie that should work. At all.
But defying those odds, it actually does. It's the right ratio of stupid, corny, and fun
It takes itself seriously enough to make the world believable, and seriously enough that the characters feel real enough that you care about them, but that's about it.
It's self aware enough to know that this is a fundamentally stupid show for kids it's based on.
My complant is that there were a few grossly inappropriate jokes, that I really wouldn't have wanted my kid seeing, if I had one.
And honestly that's my only real nitpick.
The designs worked better on screen than in toys. Though I still don't understand why a mastodon or triceratops needs to have six legs for.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 1, 2017 8:44:35 GMT
In front of GITS was the Baywatch trailer, which was new to me. Looks awful! If you think that looks bad, check out the trailers for CHiPs.  Will see GitS tomorrow. Going in as a newbie to the franchise. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 2, 2017 15:29:22 GMT
Baywatch wasn't the worst Dwayne Johnson trailer on before Ghost in the Shell. I want to throw a chair at the screen every time the Fast & Furious franchise shoehorns the word 'family' into its scripts.
1. Logan
2. The Lego Batman Movie
3. Kong: Skull Island
4. Ghost in the Shell (a story that would probably have blown me away 25 years ago but isn't so special now, with mediocre performances)
5. Assassin's Creed
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 2, 2017 20:58:35 GMT
While watching a double-bill of Robocop (digital presentation) and Starship Troopers (35mm film presentation) at the Filmhouse, I was shocked to realise these films are now 30 and 20 years old! Argh!!! The former is still very relevant to our times.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 2, 2017 21:02:26 GMT
Nice Paul Verhoeven double! Two great, great films.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 2, 2017 21:05:28 GMT
I watched Risen last night, which Lovefilm saw fit to preempt the Easter weekend with. Passable, I thought, but I spent all of it wondering what it would be like dubbed by Monty Python.
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Post by blueshift on Apr 2, 2017 21:09:50 GMT
The former is still very relevant to our times. And the latter! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 2, 2017 21:44:15 GMT
I watched Risen last night, which Lovefilm saw fit to preempt the Easter weekend with. Passable, I thought, but I spent all of it wondering what it would be like dubbed by Monty Python. It had such potential and could have been a great and interesting film but gave up any pretence at drama in the second half I felt. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 2, 2017 21:45:18 GMT
The former is still very relevant to our times. And the latter! Oh very true. Also from a production point of view: it does not look 20 years old. Looks like it was made this year. -Ralph |
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