Movies The Movie Thread! - Continuation - Part 1

[Notice me Escanor senpai]

 

[Doraku]

Has anyone seen The Witch yet? It's getting a ton of hype online.

I'm very hyped about this movie as well. Movie aficionados' are saying it's one of the best horror films in the past several years. It's almost unbelievable that The Witch is a debut work from a rookie director. Cannot wait for worldwide release date.

Go Deakins! Hope he gets his Oscar this year.

Sicario was awesome, but I think Lubezki has been on a roll since the past three years lol. This one of the hardest choice for me, since I like Deakins, Lubezki, and Seale's works. I hope he's going to nab the oscars for Hail Caesar though.

 

[Riku]

Sicario was awesome, but I think Lubezki has been on a roll since the past three years lol. This one of the hardest choice for me, since I like Deakins, Lubezki, and Seale's works. I hope he's going to nab the oscars for Hail Caesar though.

And Lubezki won again. He has been phenomenal during the last decade though, almost magical. Children of Men, Tree of Life, Gravity, Birdman and Revenant have all been spectacularly shot. And each of them does have their 'thing' that makes the cinematography outstanding, and for every film it has been different.

If not Hail Cesar, then at least Blade Runner 2

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I was in the "Let's not judge this before it's out"-camp. Not anymore. My gawd that seems like a horrible movie.

 

[Notice me Escanor senpai]

Saw Macbeth the other day. It was one of the movies from 2015 that I was looking forward to see, and it was good mostly.
The visuals are some of the best I've seen in a while. I think it was shot in Scotland, and the scenes are just beautiful. The acting was pretty solid, Fassbender does a convincing Macbeth, and Marion Cotillard is also good as Lady Macbeth. One problem I have with her though is her accent, which makes it hard to understand what she's saying, and since it's Shakespeare it's not good.
It was a good movie overall, but I'm not sure if I'm too fond of such movies tbh. I had already watched Coriolanus in before, and I find that Shakespeare's plays don't really translate that well into movies. The language and the monologues seems a bit off, and don't really match the movie format imo, if you get what I mean. It's just off, plus I'm not that huge of a fan of Shakespeare .My favorite work of his must be Othello.

 

[kkck]

Just saw the ghostbuster trailer... So much cringe.... Gotta say, I don't get melissa mccarthy. I look at her and all I can wonder is she is ever going to try something different from "funny because she is fat". In any case I don't find her to be funny.

 

[xi0]

Melissa McCarthy has her moments, but it might be a case of her sort of wearing out her welcome with the same sort of shit/ being one-note, I guess.

And yeah, pretty cringe that trailer is. But that probably would have been the case with any remake they tried. The premise isn't what drove the original franchise, it was the cast and writing. You can't just take a ridiculous premise like that, cast "funny" people in it and expect it to go over well. Hollywood is so retarded sometimes, rofl.

 

[Riku]

Yeah, thats what bothered me the most in the trailer. The original was known for the smart and witty script and dialogue, delivered by a great cast. Now nothing of that humor was left, it was pretty much just slap stick.Also that remake of the theme song is an abomination.

 

[xi0]

I mean, I'm not a superfan of those movies honestly, but more of Aykroyd and Murray. This remake was talked about for a long time, it was supposed to reunite the old cast at some point as well, and it doesn't even seem like they're even featured. I don't blame them of course.

 

[kkck]

I didn't mind the remix to be honest.... Well, the piano thing at the begining was incredibly weird. It's like they are trying to make a gritty reboot of a comedy... And then the tone changes and it's suddenly an ordinary gender-swap of the original movie. It even seems to have the same plot as the original. Of course, the bar is set quite high considering it was set by bill murray and aykroid....

I think the old cast specifically said they wouldn't be involved in the film, specially murray.

 

[Riku]

I thought they said they would have cameos. Hmm, maybe they building for twist, were one of the old characters is the villain that has build a machine to attract the ghosts. The trailer didn't show any other characters at all. Well, Hemsworth, but wasn't he confirmed to play their secretary?

 

[kkck]

I just checked who the writer for the movie were... The director is the guy from spy and bridesmaids... Both movies which I did not enjoy (specially bridesmaids, I feel sleep in that one).

 

[xi0]

I like Paul Feig and I liked Bridesmaids actually. The guy has a decent track record IMO, Freaks and Geeks was a great show and he's been involved with numerous other great shows. I think because of this he got attached to this property because people in Hollywood were insistent on rehashing it...but yeah...

 

[HereNThere]

I hated Spy's trailer, but found the movie to be funny when I actually saw it. I'm not really fond of the Ghostbuster's trailer either, so I'm hoping I'll be surprised here as well.

I saw two movies this week, which is pretty uncommon for me, The Witch and Zootopia. I found The Witch to be a pretty good atmospheric film. I thought I would dislike the slow pace, but it kept me engrossed. I really didn't like the ending though. It really brought my opinion down. There was a point where it should have cut off, but it kept going unfortunately.

Zootopia is one of the best Disney movies I've seen in long time. The last animated movie Disney released that I felt this strongly about was Wreck It Ralph which was, what, 3 or 4 years ago? Hell, this is the best movie I've seen in the last year period. It was well put together, had some great set ups and pay offs, and was just an overall delightful film.

 

[goldb]

I was really hoping they'd resist the temptation of showing that last scene until the movies.

 

[Notice me Escanor senpai]

Yay Spidey.

Spoiler

Are they going to follow the original Civil war ending and have Captain America die?

From looking at the trailer it looks like Ironman is mad because Captain America's buddy hurt his buddy. I know there's more to the civil war than that, but still it's an impression I got.
Earlier I checked tumblr and they were doing a ask the cast a question thingy.

 

[Riku]

This looks so awesome.

 

[goldb]

I fell in love with the first teaser I saw of this film and I can't wait for it and its soundtrack.

 

[kkck]

Wow, that looks awesome. I look forward to that movie.

 

[Wowzers]

This weekend I saw: The Brothers Grimsby. The movie is funny... almost hysterical in places. Unfortunately, it is also one of the crassest movies I have ever seen. I almost walked out on it... more than once. Almost.
It's the sort of movie Donald Trump would like... except for one scene later in the movie.

 

[xi0]

I was really hoping they'd resist the temptation of showing that last scene until the movies.

I mean it's cool and everything, but I'm actually surprised people are talking more about Spidey than Black Panther. T'Challa steals the scene for me. I was skeptical about the notion of him carrying his own movie, but just from a few scenes in this trailer, I can say I'm probably wrong. Boseman is a great casting for him as well.

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And to add to that, I'm not exactly sure how any viewer would side with Captain over this...but I guess I'm saying that without having seen all of the MCU movies leading up to this and I'm only basing that off of what we know of the movie, not the original story.