theboyangel Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 This weekend, the wife and I have got A Man On A Ledge and Coriolanus to watch.... I'm expecting great things from the latter and not a great deal from the former! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Thought Spider-Man was great. Garfield is better than Maguire. Stone is better looking than Dunst. I think the first Spider-Man got some undeserved attention and praise at the time for the spectacle it was. It was one of the early ones in the 'new' set of comic book films starting with X-Men in 2000 (maybe MIB in 1997 if you want to include that) so audiences were still loving the razz-matazz of the whole thing. I really hope they use Venom somewhere, just to eliminate the nightmare I still have of paying to see Spider-Man 3 at the cinema. Venom, then maybe Carnage in the final film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Spiderman 1 + 2 were perfectly fine and good movies. 3 was an abomination.. Spidermans greatest nemisis (Venom) was treated like a bit part character - allegedly because the director didn't like him as a character but knew the fans would moan if he finished the trilogy without including him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Despite how shite the 3rd was, I was actually looking forward to 4 soley on the basis that Malkovich was being rumoured to play the Vulture - what a perfect fit that would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Watched two films yesteryonder. Dirty Girl....never watch this film. Ever. Being Flynn. This was much better. Although probably just a paycheck for De Niro he nails another performance. Paul Dano is good aswell albiet with an annoying looking face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Despite how shite the 3rd was, I was actually looking forward to 4 soley on the basis that Malkovich was being rumoured to play the Vulture - what a perfect fit that would be. As good as Malkovich is, I think it's a damn good thing that never happened. I just don't think the Vulture would transfer very well onto the big screen, especially if Raimi was directing it. The first two films were decent, the third should have all copies destroyed and the reboot is brilliant. I'm very much looking forward to the next one and I pray that they do the Venom storyline in one of the films because I have faith they would do it justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 14, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 14, 2012 Comic Con is on which means talk of movies (at the moment Elysium, from the District 9 director, and del Toro's Pacific Rim have people's hype), and of course some Marvel film stuff. Iron Man 3 is getting a big push as their next release and today they unveiled, what else, a new suit for Tony Stark. It's pug ugly. Thats the 8th suit they've had him wear over the course of what will be 4 films, as you can see in the back ground. Given that this film is more directly inspired/influenced by the Extremis story arc expect this suit to do something special (I say more directly as that storyline has influenced all the Iron Man films to date to some degree). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 That is an ugly suit! Watched a few films today with some mates. Hesher with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman which was brilliant I thought. I also watched Drive and thought it was very disappointing. I'm not sure if people on here were taking the piss or not in their praise of Gosling, because to describe his performance I would have to say "Segal-like", he added nothing to the movie at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Fair enough, agree to disagree about Drive, I thought it was great and Gosling was really good. I just watched Horrible Bosses which I thought was pretty funny. Then again, I love the three shows that the three main characters are all best known for, those being Saturday Night Live (Jason Sudeikis, who also was very funny in the latest season of Eastbound & Down), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Charlie Day, who essentially played his character from this show in the movie but he does it so well) and Arrested Development (Jason Bateman, again playing the same character but he plays the sensible guy in the group of dumbasses well). As well as those three, the cast is made even greater with Kevin Spacey playing a psycho, Colin Farrell as a tool and the best of the lot, Jennifer Aniston being a nympho in which nearly every line out of her mouth is pure filth which is not only funny but incredibly sexy. It's good for a bit of thoughtless fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 This weekend, the wife and I have got A Man On A Ledge and Coriolanus to watch.... I'm expecting great things from the latter and not a great deal from the former! Well, really pleased I wasn't expecting much from Man On A Ledge as it was really rather good! Very enjoyable in a 'disengage brain and watch the moving pictures' kind of way. Definately a decent popcorn flick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 15, 2012 As you might have been able to guess given the Iron Man suit reveal yesterday, last night saw Marvel's Comic Con panel. And they went mental. They apparently showed a fair bit of footage and revealed they're about halfway done filming it. Given that it's for release next year thats about where they want to be. Footage included Stark developing and trying out a new suit that seems to be able to form itself over his body, which of course they played for laughs as things like the codpiece rocket towards his crotch and the faceplate getting knocked off it's axis so he has to flip over to get it to align properly and smash his face in. Another scene played for laughs had Happy Hogan, Stark's bodyguard, messing around with a tablet computer and revealing he's quit as Tony's bodyguard and also a few throwaway lines about his mother being in Manhatten while the Avenger's invasion was going on. Then some action scenes seeing Stark's Malibu place being attacked and his suits being blown up. And finally a reveal of the villain - Ben Kingsley playing the Mandarin. I never thought they'd do the Mandarin but he is one of Stark's main foes so makes sense to get him in somehow. Apparently asides from Kingsley not being a Oriental looking chap the look is very 'down' for the character. Don Cheadle is back as Rhodey, presumably as War Machine too, and apparently a lot is going on in the movie. Thor 2 got it's subtitle and release date for next year confirmed, entire cast is returning apparently but no other details (though it was revealed the other day that Mads Mikkelson, who was le Chiffre in Casino Royale, was supposdly going to be involved in the film as a villain, but has had to pull out). Theres been a lot of rumours about Thor 2 being a much bigger scale movie to the fish out of water on Earth story they did in the first movie so it could be an interesting one to watch - Thor's comic storylines are often massive in scope - in recent years he fought off the against the Midgard Serpent (?) which in Norse legend is a snake that encircles the planet, and he's investigated the realms of Yggdrasil countless times. Most money on this film involves him having to travel to stop evil arising from Hell, the realm of the lost and damned. Cap 2 also gets a subtitle and confirmed release date. This does however reveal a fair amount of the plot - the Winter Soldier story arc already exists in the comics and deals with exactly what happened to his friend Bucky after the events of the first film. I'm not that big up on my Cap stories but I do know that the Winter Soldier arc is one of the most celebrated Cap stories of recent years and has potential to be very cool, it's the kind of story you could only do with Cap as the hero. This should be really good. Then they drove fans really crazy... Yep, they are doing Guardians of the Galaxy. This is either the moment Marvel's Cinematic Universe jumps the shark entirely or pulls of something completely brilliant. (Click for bigger better version) I'll remain skeptical on that one in particular... For reference the characters there are Drax the Destroyer (the green guy) who has superhuman strength/resilience/etc, can fire blasts from his hands (ala Iron Man) and sense the location of Thanos (big baddie reveal from the end of Avengers). The Ent thing is Groot, another alien species that is very intelligent and very very hard to kill, able to regrow from a sprig like a plant can, sorta. The man with the guns is Star-Lord, an astronaut who is approached by aliens to become what amounts to a interstellar copper (think Green Lantern without the ring crap). The raccoon is Rocket Raccoon, who is good with guns and also happens to be a raccoon from space. And sword lady is probably Gamora, last of an alien species and Thanos' adopted daughter who is a highly skilled assassin. It looks like they're going to use the film to set up Thanos proper as the villain for Avengers 2. It's all going to be very silly but perhaps that can be a good thing... Then Edgar Wright showed up. It's been a fairly open secret the Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/Scott Pilgrim man wanted to do Ant-Man for a while and had been throwing out some ideas, but he actually turned up to Comic Con with concept footage. It apparently shows Ant-Man getting on an elevator. Starts with a long shot of a corridor with some Matrix-esque agents guarding the elevator entrance, which pulls back to inside an air vent to show a suitably shrunken Ant-Man. He jumps down and returns to normal size running down the corridor. The agents start to fire on him and shrinks back down at the same time as leaping forwards, landing on the barrel of the gun of one of the guys, sprinting along the barrel before jumping towards the guys face. You see this tiny dot accelerating towards the guys cheek before landing a full on blow that ripples through his face and sends some teeth flying. He then grows back to normal size, throws the other guy through a window and casually walks into the elevator. All of that is shot in the usual Edgar Wright style you expect from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz which leaves you wondering if they might play it as a comedy. No reveal of a cast, and Wright even said that they'd not actually cast Ant-Man yet, but he did leave the panel with this... He said that Ant Man was present at Comic Con and had been sent to spy on Pacific Rim... Wright is about to begin working on the next film he's doing with Pegg and Frost, the completion of the Three Colours Ice Cream series, the World's End. But it looks like he'll do Ant-Man after. Not a great fan of the character myself, he usually pops up as a supporting character in the Avengers these days as their resident super smart scientist chap. Marvel are betting big on Phase 2 of the MCU. It could, it should be interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_c Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Some of those may turn out good, but I wish movie studios would do some more, 2000ad or Dark Horse comics before scraping the Marvel barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 15, 2012 If Ant-Man ISN'T a comedy, then I can see no way how it can be anything other than shit. It sounds ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 15, 2012 Some of those may turn out good, but I wish movie studios would do some more, 2000ad or Dark Horse comics before scraping the Marvel barrel. In fairness Marvel is basically doing all these movies off it's own back, other studios are acting largely as distrubutors IIRC. And even that should change now that Disney own Marvel - Disney should/have become the Marvel name distrubutor. 2000ad has a lot of properties that could make good movies but they don't have the reach - Dredd is their biggest name and it's a gamble doing a movie on that even, it just doesn't have the awareness to make the money to spin a few more of the lesser known properties. Same goes for Dark Horse. If Ant-Man ISN'T a comedy, then I can see no way how it can be anything other than shit. It sounds ridiculous. It could easily be done as a comedy, a lot depends on which Ant-Man they do. The original one is the one I mention above, who is now basically the Avenger's science buddie, and tended to get loads of tortured storylines (his most well known moment is basically becoming a domestic violence offender). The current one, however, is characterised as an arsehole. He has an abrasive manner and is incredibly selfish, and is a pervert. He uses the power he's been given to stalk women for instance, or spy on people and blackmail them. The one in the middle is basically a petty theif who nicks the Ant-Man gear and ends up doing some good with it. It could work as a comedy, especially if they did the latest incarnation although they'd have to be careful just how far they were prepared to go on the 'lack of morals pervert' angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 And finally a reveal of the villain - Ben Kingsley playing the Mandarin. I never thought they'd do the Mandarin but he is one of Stark's main foes so makes sense to get him in somehow. Apparently asides from Kingsley not being a Oriental looking chap the look is very 'down' for the character. Don Cheadle is back as Rhodey :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Yeah Cheadle was just bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 15, 2012 I dunno. Cheadle's a good actor, I just think Iron Man 2 was just a mess start to finish and his character was affected more than many others, especially as he was debuting in the role. The only characters that come out of that film particularly well are the ones returning from the previous film, as they just slip back into the role and carry on, which lets you subconsciously skip over the rubbish elements of dialogue/plot (largely) imo. Scarlett is better in the Avengers, for example, as well. I'm not a great fan of Rhodey all in all but, maybe Cheadle can step up in this film. At the very least, it looks like he might have a bit more to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I watched the Amazing Spider-Man yesterday. So much better than the other Spiderman films, Garfield fitted Peter Parker better than Maguire. Really enjoyed it. The bit with the car thief was really funny. It was all round just better than the other 3 movies. Cannot wait for the Dark Knight Rises next week, I always like Bond films so looking forward to Skyfall (which had a trailer before) and the Hobbit in December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 X-Men First Class isn't as good as the ratings would have you believe imo. It suffers massively from being 2 potential films chucked together. It has really good moments and really crap ones as well. It would have been far, far better a movie if they'd chopped the kids/crews of each side from it (i.e. the entire basis for the First Class film they wanted to make), and built up the aspects of other movie they were going to make (X-Men Origins: Magneto) more. Fassbender (until he goes all Irish at the end, Magneto'Malley, fnarr) is great, and James McAvoy is pretty good too, and they could have made a lot more of Bacon's character with no effort at all. The kids are all shite, they picked hopeless characters and got hopeless actors and you end up not really giving a shit (I actually cringe whenever the Banshee kid is on screen). Instead they fudged it together and it suffers from it. It got the critics going because it was a period superhero film imo, getting 'it's a bit different' brownie points. Agree on Fassbender and McAvoy. Not a fantastic film but an enjoyable watch. I always enjoy watching Fassbender as I also always enjoy Tom Hardy, they both seem to fit roles perfectly no matter what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Dredd got screened at a Comic-Con preview last night so some reactions are coming out. Every one so far adored it. Really nice to hear. This is a movie that I really, really want to be good. The potential for filming some of the classic Dredd stories (Cursed Earth, Judge Death, Apocalypse War, City of the Damned, Judgment Day etc) is phenomenal. It will probably never happen, but Drokk it I can dream can't I? Ooh yeah saw the trailer for that yesterday too, want to see it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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