What was the last movie you watched?

[samurai-turtle]

On 4/4/2018 at 11:24 AM, rodiziorobs said:

I went back to the well of Cinematic Batman Shame and watched Justice League.

It wasn't...bad... Just overwhelmingly *meh*. I might share some comments over on the DC-specific thread, if I decide I care enough.

I got around to watching Justice League the other day too. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. The "overwhelming *meh*" is a good discription for this movie. I feel Ezran Miller might not been the best choice for the Flash. Or I am just comparing Miller's version to Grant Guston's version from the CW's Flash. And then there is the Superman's lip fiasco the only time I really notice it was at the beginning with the kid's blog video. I guess the next thing was with Stephwolf far as I am concerned he was just a powered up Pardemon. The last thing is with Aquaman and when he was sitting on the "lasso of truth" and spilling his guts out. Now in Theory it is funny but it was not laugh out loud funny, now you could say was a problem for the whole film with the other jokes. 

[Digger of Bricks]

20 hours ago, x105Black said:

Yes, I have seen it, and I enjoyed it.  It's an interesting story, and overall a good watch.  I'm a big fan of Blomkamp's work.  I would suggest it.

Okay, I just checked it out last night, and yeah, it's not a bad film!  

I must say though, the ending felt somewhat different from the rest of film's tone, as that one gantry battle between Damon's character and the mercenary felt a little like something out of a superhero movie. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy that scene as a result, it was only amusing in a way.

[x105Black]

13 hours ago, Forresto said:

If you're a fan of Blomkamp you should check out the channel Oats Studios. He's directed several proof of concept films that will never be made but he really loved the ideas of. He crowd funds them and for what budget he has they're really quite astonishing. 

Here's just one he's done. 

I've seen Rakka, and it's fantastic.  I also watched Adam, both because it was Blomkamp, and because it was produced in the Unity game engine.  I'd recommend that one.

42 minutes ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Okay, I just checked it out last night, and yeah, it's not a bad film!  

I must say though, the ending felt somewhat different from the rest of film's tone, as that one gantry battle between Damon's character and the mercenary felt a little like something out of a superhero movie. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy that scene as a result, it was only amusing in a way.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[npgcole]

Mars Attacks. That was... that was a movie

[Artanis I]

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[x105Black]

2 hours ago, npgcole said:

Mars Attacks. That was... that was a movie

I loved that movie!

[spiderfan2000]

Ready Player One

[x105Black]

3 hours ago, spiderfan2000 said:

Ready Player One

So tell us about it.

[spiderfan2000]

22 hours ago, x105Black said:

So tell us about it.

I thought it was great!  It took a lot of liberties from the original story, but I think it worked out quite well.  I'm not sure the original story would have translated easily into a movie, so the changes were understandable to me.  Of course, now I wish that LEGO would have made a few sets for it 

[Master_Data]

Ready Player One - great movie! Can't wait for the sequel (which the author is still in the middle of writing)!

29 minutes ago, spiderfan2000 said:

Of course, now I wish that LEGO would have made a few sets for it 

That would have been a license headache for the corporate end...but it would have been awesome! Maybe for the sequel or an Ideas set.

[Digger of Bricks]

4 hours ago, Master_Data said:

That would have been a license headache for the corporate end...but it would have been awesome! Maybe for the sequel or an Ideas set.

Being a Warner Bros movie, I'd guess that an Ideas submission would ideally be executed as a project featuring only the book's original characters/vehicles plus licensed characters/vehicles who are the property of only one film studio (preferably WB).

Edited April 10, 2018 by Digger of Bricks

[Forresto]

Lego Dimensions is already essentially the Lego Ready Player One 

[Digger of Bricks]

Just now, Forresto said:

Lego Dimensions is already essentially the Lego Ready Player One 

Same could be said for The Lego Movie, plus its sequel potentially too.

[Master_Data]

4 hours ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Same could be said for The Lego Movie, plus its sequel potentially too.

I actually thought that when watching Ready Player One! They are so similar. I wonder if the book helped inspire The LEGO Movie?

[Digger of Bricks]

5 hours ago, Master_Data said:

I actually thought that when watching Ready Player One! They are so similar. I wonder if the book helped inspire The LEGO Movie?

Plus, perhaps the book may be an inspiration behind 2019's The Billion Brick Race, but that may depend upon what exactly this "race" is anyway.

[rodiziorobs]

I did not return again to the Bat Corner of Embarrassment (I have been slowly catching up on BTAS episodes on Amazon, but those don't count), but instead watched Captain America: the First Avenger. It had been awhile since I saw it, and I had clothes to fold.

I am still amazed how much this movie had to accomplish and how, even though it feels stretched a bit thin in places, it makes it all work.

[Digger of Bricks]

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar from 2014. It was an interesting film to say the least.

 

[x105Black]

2 hours ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar from 2014. It was an interesting film to say the least.

 

I enjoyed that film, even if I had trouble with certain parts, like making the timeline work.  The concept was really cool, and it was visually pleasing.

[Digger of Bricks]

1 minute ago, x105Black said:

I enjoyed that film, even if I had trouble with certain parts, like making the timeline work.  The concept was really cool, and it was visually pleasing.

Any other recent space movies you could suggest to me?

[x105Black]

14 hours ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Any other recent space movies you could suggest to me?

I don't watch enough.  Mostly the big ones as far as science fiction goes.  Oblivion was great, and so was Edge of Tomorrow, (both with Tom Cruise).  I don't know if it counts, but I really liked Arrival.  Ender's Game was good, if you don't think about the books too much.  And if you go in with low expectations, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is OK.  There are a couple of other science fiction movies I would recommend, but they don't take place in space, nor do they involve alien life.  I would suggest Chappie and Ex Machina.

Edited April 13, 2018 by x105Black

[Master_Data]

Thor Ragnarok. I know it got great reviews, but I felt that the plot was stretched thin in quite a few places, and certain parts which were meant to invoke emotion just didn't work. It was okay, I guess, but it didn't live up to the hype IMO.

[Digger of Bricks]

8 hours ago, x105Black said:

I don't watch enough.  Mostly the big ones as far as science fiction goes.  

Hey, thanks for all the suggestions! I might check out Arrival, as I forgot about that one shortly after its release.

[x105Black]

6 hours ago, Master_Data said:

Thor Ragnarok. I know it got great reviews, but I felt that the plot was stretched thin in quite a few places, and certain parts which were meant to invoke emotion just didn't work. It was okay, I guess, but it didn't live up to the hype IMO.

I saw that one before all the hype (and was therefore part of hyping it up), and I thought it was fantastic.

1 hour ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Hey, thanks for all the suggestions! I might check out Arrival, as I forgot about that one shortly after its release.

No problem!  The same thing happened to me with Arrival, so I figured it might not have been as good as it looked, or maybe it didn't perform well at the box office.  Well, it actually made quite a bit of money and was reviewed strongly.  It even got 8 Oscar nominations.

It turned out to be a great movie, every bit as good as I had hoped when I saw the original trailers.

[KotZ]

18 hours ago, x105Black said:

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

That movie would have been 100x better if they cast someone else for Valerian instead of Dane Dehaan.

[x105Black]

6 hours ago, KotZ said:

That movie would have been 100x better if they cast someone else for Valerian instead of Dane Dehaan.

Agreed.  The acting from the 2 leads could have been much better.  And the story took some weird detours, but I get that it was following a comic book plot.  Still, I found it an enjoyable watch.  But like I said, I went in expecting it to be a steaming pile of crap.  It was a few lukewarm turds dressed up really nice.  Gorgeous.  Especially the opening sequence.