Stevo985 Posted December 29, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, wazzap24 said: The things I want to see (so far) are; Glass (3rd part of the M.Night-shamalamadingdong trilogy thingy) Captain Marvel Avengers End Game Toy Story 4 Men in Black International Alladdin Dumbo Lion King Hellboy The Joker ( the Joaquin Phoenix one) Once upon a time in Hollywood (Tarantino) Godzilla: King of the monsters Spider-Man: Far from home Dark Phoenix ( X-Men) IT: Chapter two US Star Wars Ep 9 Lego Movie 2 Ad Astra Spawn There will be others too, these are just the ones that have caught my eye so far. Bolded the ones that might be good Oh and lol at another Spiderman film. Edited December 29, 2018 by Stevo985 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted December 29, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2018 Of those, I’d happily go and watch “Glass”, it looks promising. Don’t know what “US”, “Ad Astra” or “Spawn” are about. Meh to the rest, I’d probably watch a bit of them if they happened to be on the telly and I may even like them. Wouldn’t be particularly interested going to see them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Shropshire Lad said: Of those, I’d happily go and watch “Glass”, it looks promising. Don’t know what “US”, “Ad Astra” or “Spawn” are about. Meh to the rest, I’d probably watch a bit of them if they happened to be on the telly and I may even like them. Wouldn’t be particularly interested going to see them. Yep, looks like a pile of poo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Just watched birdbox. Very underwhelming after all the hype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 31, 2018 Moderator Share Posted December 31, 2018 Netflix seems to be the king of the hyped presentation right now - for a service that only 10% of the nation see, talk of it's programming is all over every form of media I can find. I suppose we should say well done to them. I look forward to watching it all somewhere in the next couple of years to see if it was worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Was strongarmed into a cinema visit, wife wanted to see Aquaman (I wonder why?). It wasn't too bad really, could have done without the "you killed my father" baddie, and the Star wars-esque battle scenes. Not bad for a fiver. I will say though, I'm in favour of adding food, drink and children to the banned list along with cigarettes. Later we watched Split. MacAvoy is very good in it, but my eyes were gravitating to Anya Taylor-Joy for the most part, what a stunner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Re-watched Avengers Infinity War. Liked it better than I did the first time I saw it. It's actually quite entertaining and it looks really good. They did a good job in capturing the personalities of all the different characters from the various franchises in my non initiated view. Only thing that was kind of a drag was the whole Wakanda battle that was a pretty generic Elves vs Orcs and reminded me too much of the battle in The Phantom Menace with Banner as Jar-Jar Binks. For it's genre it's probably as good as it gets. Kinda looking forward to the conclusion. Just hope it isn't an endless going back and forth between different timelines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 31, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2018 Saw Birdbox as well last night. Gets a big meh from me. Starts out terribly. I hated it at first. It does get better though. But ultimately the amount of stuff they do blindfolded is absurd. Driving to the supermarket without being able to see and actually making it. And knowing exactly where they parked. Ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 I spent most of my time watching Birdbox scrolling around on here. Not bad, but 'meh' seems about fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 On 29/12/2018 at 21:05, Stevo985 said: Oh and lol at another Spiderman film. Not especially aimed at you, Stevo, but someone else said something similar to me recently. Then proceeded to talk about the next Bond film. I don't suppose I've ever known why with some things its okay to have sequels/prequels/reboots, but not others? For example, Bond films have come out every 2 years and I rarely hear people knock it. I'm assuming the Fantastic Beasts stuff is Harry Potter, so there's been 10 of them in 18 years. Middle Earth has had 6 films in 13 years. 7 Spider-man films in 16 years isn't really any different, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 31, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2018 (edited) 29 minutes ago, kurtsimonw said: Not especially aimed at you, Stevo, but someone else said something similar to me recently. Then proceeded to talk about the next Bond film. I don't suppose I've ever known why with some things its okay to have sequels/prequels/reboots, but not others? For example, Bond films have come out every 2 years and I rarely hear people knock it. I'm assuming the Fantastic Beasts stuff is Harry Potter, so there's been 10 of them in 18 years. Middle Earth has had 6 films in 13 years. 7 Spider-man films in 16 years isn't really any different, is it? Well I don't particularly like the other movies you've mentioned either. I've never seen a Fantastic Beasts or the hobbit series. Bond is mostly crap these days. But I guess the difference for me is a lot (relatively speaking) of the films since the first Sam Raimi film have been reboots (including the first Raimi one). So 3 out of those 7 (as far as I can tell) are reboots. If we'd had 3 film versions of The Hobbit in the last 20 years I'd agree with you. Or the same Bond story. But the 6 middle earth films have all been "new" stories. Same with harry potter. Bond is a bit different as I guess the whole thing can be taken as a reboot, but apart from Casino Royale, they're all telling new stories as far as I can tell. They're not getting rebooted over and over again. Edited December 31, 2018 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 (edited) I can agree to an extent, though I don't see an issue with a reboot when it's telling a new story and not just rehashing things. The first Andrew Garfield film, where it has the same "origin" bit essentially repeated, sure. But the latest doesn't do any of that. And it's not really just Spider-Man, the same seems to get said with any Marvel properties, none of which have really been rebooted as such (Spider-Man aside). Edited December 31, 2018 by kurtsimonw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 6 hours ago, sne said: Re-watched Avengers Infinity War. Liked it better than I did the first time I saw it. It's actually quite entertaining and it looks really good. They did a good job in capturing the personalities of all the different characters from the various franchises in my non initiated view. Only thing that was kind of a drag was the whole Wakanda battle that was a pretty generic Elves vs Orcs and reminded me too much of the battle in The Phantom Menace with Banner as Jar-Jar Binks. For it's genre it's probably as good as it gets. Kinda looking forward to the conclusion. Just hope it isn't an endless going back and forth between different timelines. I loved the Wakanda battle scene. It has a couple of my favourite moments/lines in the film. Thor turning up and being a total badass. The bits with Rocket and Bucky ("How much for the Gun") and when Thor introduces Captain America to Groot, crack me up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted December 31, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2018 5 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: I spent most of my time watching Birdbox scrolling around on here. That's how I watch about 95% of TV/Films (Especially the ones Mrs. TA chooses ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 2 hours ago, TheAuthority said: That's how I watch about 95% of TV/Films (Especially the ones Mrs. TA chooses ) I'm trying not to do it so much, but I am literally doing exactly this with Spectre on in the background right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 1, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2019 2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: I'm trying not to do it so much, but I am literally doing exactly this with Spectre on in the background right now. On the theme of Bond being crap these days, Spectre was so so bad. I hate that they rebooted Bond, did Casino Royale brilliantly, had this great opportunity to make it half decent again by basically ripping off Bourne, but then took it back down the same route it's been down before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 I really enjoyed Bird Box, thought it was ace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 For those who want to feel old, Blade Runner, Akira and The Running Man all take place in 2019. The future didn't turn our quite like expected. Not that any of those societies are anything to strive for... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 47 minutes ago, sne said: Not that any of those societies are anything to strive for... Nor is the one we actually live in! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 I will never again watch a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. Thats 3 for 3 in the boredom stakes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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