Dread Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 The 1990 version or the one that came out last year? Either way, you may be disappointed on the sequels front. Last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The Avengers: It really hasn't aged well. It's about a half hour too long and the effects don't hold up even though it's less than three years old. Cap's costume is awful too. Looks like they pasted his head in afterwards. There are some great moments, but that's all this is. A half-dozen great moments strung together sloppily with a piss-poor script. It's maybe the fifth best Marvel movie. Feature Films: 50 Documentaries: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Will and I talked about this over on BDH, but there are some pretty massive plot holes and it just doesn't hold up as well as it did originally. Hell, it's not even that good as far as Whedon sfuff goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted April 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 A Magic Puppy: So, most of DeCoteau's output is not good. Like at all. But this still isn't as bad as the other talking animal films. Oh, it's still bad and there aren't many redeeming qualities but it just only occasionally felt incomprehensibility bad. For starters, there's a semblance of a plot with cause and effect... that is then often forgotten for long scenes of driving or Kristine DeBell playing with a dog that's actually her boyfriend, Eric Roberts. Okay, when I type it out, it does seem more bad. Godzilla vs Megalon: Godzilla is a side-character in his own film, Jet Jaguar is terrible, the villains have a point, and the heroes are a gay couple and their incredibly annoying child. Yeah, this is probably one of my favorites. Catwoman: Somehow even worse when you watch it with cat-owners who point out how little resemblance to cats anything in this movie is. Feature Films: 36 Direct to DVD: 1 Made-For-TV: 2 Repeats: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Kristine DeBell Is she the Asylum version of Kristin Bell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted April 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Not quite. Most recently she does DeCoteau films almost exclusively but, back in the day, she was notable for being Alice in the Alice in Wonderland porno from the 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 [pretentiousdouche]Also, I've been reading a lot of fifties French film criticism, so every time I see DeCocteau, I think it's Jean Cocteau.[/pretentiousdouche] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Something I forgot to mention that i noticed in Avengers. The first time I saw the film I recognized the little girl from Growing Pains as the waitress. This time I saw that the actor who plays Agent Sousa (limpy dude) in Agent Carter, plays a cop in the last act of the film. When the cop asks Cap why he should listen to him, there is another cop in that scene. That's him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Yeah, they're both now part of Whedon's group of favorite actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 After spending the weekend watching through the Daredevil Netflix series, I've just re-watched the (theatrical cut) 2003 Daredevil movie to prep for discussion on the Comic Book Film Revue. On the microscopic reason that no one here is just DYING to know what I think and will wait for the episode to be released, I've always thought this movie gets a ridiculously unreasonable amount of flak. I know the Director's Cut is better respected (I also own that but can't find it) but I never thought the theatrical version was as awful as the internet said it was. So it's hard to keep the Netflix series out of my head, but objectively speaking this movie is not great. It's very melodramatic, the script is fairly lame with the best lines given to a limply-written Foggy, and it truncates the Miller run and as a results deadens the power of its original story when put on screen. Plus it has early 2000s music. That being said, I had a lot of fun watching this movie. I liked this when it first came out even before I became a massive DD fan years later, so now I have my fanboy goggle on when seeing it. I think that Mark Steven Johnson clearly adores the source material and tries his damnedest to portray it on-screen, which is admirable. Michael Clarke Duncan and Colin Farrel are clearly pissing themselves with glee playing the bad guys. They are having the time of their LIVES, it's practically 60s Batman villains level in terms of how pleased they always seem to be in being bad guys. I don't think Affleck does a bad job with what he's given. Charlie Cox had way better to work with and comes off a LOT more like Daredevil from the comics, right down to the voice, but for Affleck does is okay. There's nothing really you can point to with him where you can say he does a bad job and its his fault this movie didn't work. Plus, the movie has early 2000s music! The biggest detractor is obviously Garner's Elektra, who's written lamely and is frankly miscast. Garner looks gorgeous in this movie, so there's that. Also she is written fairly closely to her origin story so that kinda is there...but her story falls very flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davedevil Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 I've always thought that Affleck's Matt Murdock was pretty underrated. His performance was what made me a fan of the character. Plus they dyed his hair red, my only quibble with Charlie Cox's Matt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 My biggest issue with the Affleck Daredevil film is the pacing. For reasons I can't fathom, Johnson clearly thought he was making a two-hour-plus, R-rated film, and when it was hacked down to a ninety minute PG-13 movie, it ruined the story. I agree that it's not the atrocity that a lot of people make it out to be, but it should never be confused with a good film. The director's cut is much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 The Avengers: It really hasn't aged well. Whedon himself recently summed it up as "flaw, flaw, flaw, compromise, laziness, mistake." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 I think he meant on his end, not the film as a whole. Obviously, I'm a big Whedon fan, but he's a writer and an actor's director. To make the truly great film he's capable of, he's gonna need a truly dynamite DOP. Also, his "sequel to something" better not be Dr. Horrible 2, that is perfect as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 All that said, I'm glad to see him step away from Marvel if it isn't fun anymore. Whedon is a world builder and he's done his part here. The sandbox is made, time to let someone else play in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 The Happening: Fuck this movie Films watched: 37 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 All that said, I'm glad to see him step away from Marvel if it isn't fun anymore. Whedon is a world builder and he's done his part here. The sandbox is made, time to let someone else play in it. The Avengers: It really hasn't aged well. Whedon himself recently summed it up as "flaw, flaw, flaw, compromise, laziness, mistake." I'm really interested to see how AoU turns out now, reading that interview. If he's not happy, I'd way rather he step away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 He seems much more satisfied with this one, so here's hoping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Zodiac: David Fincher is a great director, and subjects like the Zodiac killer are really interesting to me. Smash em together, and you have a great movie on your hands, which Zodiac is. While, yes, the history behind the killer has since been changed, this hasn't hurt the movie to any significant extent. Films Watched: 38 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 The Usual Suspects: 1) This is the first time I've seen it, and how I never found out the twist, I don't know. 2) HOLY SHIT THAT WAS GOOD Films Watched: 39 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Kevin Spacey is God, no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 He really is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Night Train to Terror: A really, really misguided anthology film which stars Richard Moll in two roles! *Not a selling feature. Feature Films: 51 Documentaries: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted April 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 The Happening: More boring than anything else. Not the worse movie I've ever seen but, yeah, not a single thing makes sense in the entire blasted film. Puella Magi Madoka Magica : Beginnings: More a recap of the first 8 episodes of the anime with some new footage spliced in. It was enjoyable enough. Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Eternal: Recap of the last four episodes of the anime. I don't remember much, if any, new footage but oh well. Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion: In some ways, a more fitting ending (especially the fate of a character who, in the original series, was something of a Karma Houdini) and, in others, I almost prefer the original ending. Still, the animation is always gorgeous and it's still a wonderful deconstruction of the magical girl genre. Definitely worth checking out. Feature Films: 40 Direct to DVD: 1 Made-For-TV: 2 Repeats: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Avenged Feature Films: 52 Documentaries: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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