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2024/04/22 21:15:31
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Fireknife Shas'el
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I didn’t realise until I was looking on IMDb afterwards!
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2024/04/22 22:41:41
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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I just got back from Abigail. It was a fun movie. I recommend seeing it with a crowd.
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2024/04/22 23:06:50
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Just watched : Civil War.
Summary : the film follows a group of american veteran journalists working for Reuters (war reporters + 1 young civilian that wants to become a war reporter) while they travel to Washington D.C., in the hope of getting, what appears to be, the last interview of the US President before the US governement falls (it's not a spoiler, you learn that in the first 10 minutes of the film) after Texas, California and Florida (at least) chose to secede from the union (California and Texas formed an alliance while Florida chose to remain independent while being aligned with California and Texas) and have fought an unforgiving civil war for an undisclosed amount of time. And the rebels are clearly winning.
I liked it a lot. However, it's not an enjoyable watch. Alex Garland chose an ultra-realistic approach in describing what could a civil war (and a war, period) in the modern US look like. From the empty streets, the destroyed buildings, widespread suspicion and fear, petty revenge among the civilians, confusion (are those soldiers really soldiers ? are they deserters ? are they looters that found uniforms ? if they are soldiers, which faction ? do they follow orders ? are they part of a faction within a faction ?) and the lack of justice, the scenes are not unlike what can be seen in Ukraine, Syria, former Yougoslavia or what always happened during war and especially civil war (spent too much time for my own good and mental health on r/combatfootage when the Ukraine war started ...).
Politics is almost never mentioned (you can vaguely guess who's who but the film will never give you more details and you won't get a crystal clear answer, mind you I am not from the US) because it isn't what the film is aiming for. To me, this film is almost a statement ; this is what modern warfare on your soil looks like, this is what a modern civil war on your soil looks like. Don't be like that.
It is well paced, well shot, well played, sometimes hard to watch (but the older I get, the less I am confortable with very realistic approach to violence so that might be just on me) and very engaging.
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2024/04/23 06:38:27
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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It sounds like an intense film. I was planning to see it by myself since my family isn’t interested, but had a change of heart when
1. I saw an interview with Alex Garland that rubbed me the wrong way and reminded me why I didn’t like Ex Machina.
2. I decided I would prefer to see something a little less grin on a day whenI would have to have dinner with my extended family.
3. In a theater I can’t turn it off and take a break if it gets too stressful.
Hopefully it will hit streaming soon. Automatically Appended Next Post: How should we handle reviews in this thread? I would like to put some kind of a small review in here to let people know the movie is out and good/bad/whatever, but I feel like the Mini Movie Review thread is the best place for fuller reviews, since then everything would be consolidated in the more timeless thread. However, that would mean a bit of a double post here and there. What do you think? Is that a problem? Should we only cross post when we have something additional to add, such as a reply to another post or a second movie review?
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2024/04/25 11:57:20
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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28 Years Later
Jodie Comer has been cast in this sequel to Days and Weeks. Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Ralph Fiennes too.
I’m excited.
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2024/04/26 06:36:36
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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[DCM]
Fireknife Shas'el
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:28 Years Later
Jodie Comer has been cast in this sequel to Days and Weeks. Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Ralph Fiennes too.
I’m excited.
I’m very curious as to what it’s actually going to be about; the Rage virus burns itself out so quickly it shouldn’t be like a normal zombie film, as you won’t have undead hordes wandering around.
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2024/04/26 09:35:06
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Well, last we saw, Paris and presumably by extension everywhere but The Americas, Australia and such non-land-bridged areas were infected.
And if one can be a carrier, any forays into those areas would have to be super careful, as any inhabitants you find have to be assumed to be carrying the infection.
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2024/05/03 18:39:59
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Hmm. Seems Paramount are rebooting The Naked Gun. With Liam Neeson as Lt Frank Drebin.
Now I’m not going to pretend the original three are sacrosanct and perfect examples and that, but they are classics, and very very funny. And most of that came from a dream team of writers and actors, all of whom seemed to be on the same wavelength, able to make comedic performances appear deadpan.
The good news for my brain thinks is I can see Liam Neeson in the role. And I accept it may be a different style of comedy. But I’m seriously concerned that it’s doomed to suck.
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2024/05/03 19:03:32
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Gargantuan Gargant
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:28 Years Later
Jodie Comer has been cast in this sequel to Days and Weeks. Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Ralph Fiennes too.
I’m excited.
Sort of wary to the sequel, especially with it being such a long time since the last two movies were released. 28 Days Later was lightning in a bottle in terms of it being a surprise hit that helped change the zombie genre and it was good in the sense that it wasn't too large scale and more character focused. 28 Weeks Later was a signficantly weaker sequel where it relied on a lot of plot contrived idiot balls being passed along the characters to justify bringing the Rage Virus back into the UK. If they do explore 28 years later, (which frankly it should have been 28 months later if they're following the time frame for naming conventions), I feel like it should go back to its roots of it being a more localized outbreak (maybe the Rage Virus mutates and it becomes a recurring issue somehow rather than burning out like it did in previous movies) but we'll see where it goes.
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2024/05/03 19:14:40
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Leader of the Sept
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He did fine as Hannibal, but Lt Sgt Drebbin is just a different class of character.
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2024/05/03 19:21:42
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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It’s definitely a tricky character. Whilst often seen as deadpan, there’s more to it than that. To play a ridiculous man completely straight, without nod and wink to camera, mugging etc isn’t easy.
It’s the very slight exaggeration. To have the chaos and nonsense going on around you, and be able to treat it as normal. To be earnestly silly
Now I’m not saying Liam Neeson can’t do that. Just that it’s not an easy thing to portray. And frankly, for them to abandon that character trait is unconscionable.
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2024/05/03 21:39:36
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Battlefield Tourist
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Liam Neeson can pull it off. I have seen him play the straight man in plenty of things and do it well.
I have much less faith in modern studios to be able to do it.
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2024/05/03 21:57:16
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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My issue will likely be that the studio might well create a cop comedy but it won't have the same feel, style or such as the original. Or it will have some elements but not enough to feel like a continuation.
Ergo we again get an adaptation that shares the name and the "official story continuation" but is in reality just something else entirely
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2024/05/03 22:39:15
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Lieutenant General
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Hmm. Seems Paramount are rebooting The Naked Gun. With Liam Neeson as Lt Frank Drebin.
Now I’m not going to pretend the original three are sacrosanct and perfect examples and that, but they are classics, and very very funny. And most of that came from a dream team of writers and actors, all of whom seemed to be on the same wavelength, able to make comedic performances appear deadpan.
The good news for my brain thinks is I can see Liam Neeson in the role. And I accept it may be a different style of comedy. But I’m seriously concerned that it’s doomed to suck.
Also of note, Paul Walter Hauser will be playing Frank Drebin's partner, Ed.(despite Ed being his captain in the original films ).
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2024/05/03 23:00:48
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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Not Nordberg? I guess they think OJ will be a tough act to follow…
They could just bring in the original Nordberg actor from Police Squad to pass the torch to the new partner.
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2024/05/03 23:58:23
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ Sequel in the Works
30 years after the release of “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” the cult classic from director Stephan Elliott is getting a sequel. Original trio of stars Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving will return to their roles for the new film.
Well that was unexpected.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2024/05/04 06:32:39
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Fireknife Shas'el
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Overread wrote:My issue will likely be that the studio might well create a cop comedy but it won't have the same feel, style or such as the original. Or it will have some elements but not enough to feel like a continuation.
Ergo we again get an adaptation that shares the name and the "official story continuation" but is in reality just something else entirely
I agree, there’s a real question of what style do you go for? The Naked Gun was mainly spoofing on 50’s and 60’s US cop shows, which everyone was familiar with at the time, but don’t really exist now (and haven’t for decades). So if you do it in the original style, it will probably fall flat, because no-one (including probably the writers) will really get what it’s spoofing. Or do you update it to spoof more modern crime procedural type shows? But that’s a completely different feel, at which point it’s not really a reboot or remake, but just a different film that you’ve slapped some familiar names on.
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2024/05/04 10:42:46
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Yeah modern cop shows are very very different.
The other thing is the time-span. If they'd kept making Naked Gun movies every few years spoofing on the current state of cop shows then it would be a series and the changes would be broadly accepted as it would have shifted and evolved over time much like Bond has.
But what you instead get is a huge time gap and that can be insanely tricky to bridge.
The worst thing is if they try to do both - make a faithful to the old, but modern re-interpretation that's somewhat totally different. Because what you then get is a film that feels like it wants to be Z, but can't fully embrace it because its got to keep a bunch of not really fitting well elements, tropes and themes from Y. The result is something that doesn't please audiences of Y or Z and the film gets stuck between the two with no clear identity. And yet sadly producers seem to be happier to invest into that concept over and over again with current Hollywood. They don't want to break new ground with Z because "its a risk" and "there's no established audience" and such.
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2024/05/04 10:57:40
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Modern cop shows are definitely ripe for spoofing. But doing so in Police Squad! and the Naked Gun style? That’s not gonna be easy.
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2024/05/04 11:54:12
Subject: Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Honestly one big difference is old cop shows were all about the cop (and in US ones about the two cop buddy system); whilst modern ones are often a LOT more about the forensics whilst the cop kind of floats around waiting for the lab results to tell them who did it.
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2024/05/05 04:24:12
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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Unfrosted, a Jerry Seinfeld parody of a product development movie starring Pop Tarts, is out …and getting pretty negative reviews.
Also The Fall Guy is out now. I saw it and would recommend it as a date movie.
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