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Denster wrote: if you asked the majority of star wars fans - ok we're going to release four films a year for the next five years.

Each major character will have their own film and then they'll be linked and have a couple of films that pulls them all together.

So a Han Solo film, leia Film, Chewbacca film, Yoda, Vader, Maul, Palpatine, et al
then Star wars Infinity force whatever.

Star wars fans would think they'd died and gone to heaven.
Mining the whole of the star wars universe for film material?
Who wouldn't want to see a Darth Bane origin story? or any other one of the thousands you could pick.

I'm sure a lot of Star Wars fans would lap it up, but not this one. Lets be honest here, a lot of Star Wars/comic fans are blinded by their fanboyism. You could literally put anything out with Star Wars or Marvel on the packaging and they go ape gooseberry fool for it.

Spiderman 6/10

Aside from having the best villain the Marvelverse has had, this was entirely average. The jokes were there, I suppose, but not particularly amusing most of the time and the quirkiness of Parker got old, fast. The middle sagged and the finale was the usual vomit of CGI (which was surprisingly sub par for the entire film). Still, as I say, Vulture and his crew were the best superhero villains since Dr Octopus back in the day, and worth seeing the film for on their own.

I think I'm just sick of superhero films. Having seen War for the Planet of the Apes use CGI to create real, emotional characters and narratives, going back to the crash-bang-wallop of Marvel was just a bit boring.

Gemini73 wrote:

Denster wrote: if you asked the majority of star wars fans - ok we're going to release four films a year for the next five years.

Each major character will have their own film and then they'll be linked and have a couple of films that pulls them all together.

So a Han Solo film, leia Film, Chewbacca film, Yoda, Vader, Maul, Palpatine, et al
then Star wars Infinity force whatever.

Star wars fans would think they'd died and gone to heaven.
Mining the whole of the star wars universe for film material?
Who wouldn't want to see a Darth Bane origin story? or any other one of the thousands you could pick.

I'm sure a lot of Star Wars fans would lap it up, but not this one. Lets be honest here, a lot of Star Wars/comic fans are blinded by their fanboyism. You could literally put anything out with Star Wars or Marvel on the packaging and they go ape gooseberry fool for it.

Yeah. Unquestionably.

Tafdolphin wrote:Spiderman 6/10

Aside from having the best villain the Marvelverse has had, this was entirely average. The jokes were there, I suppose, but not particularly amusing most of the time and the quirkiness of Parker got old, fast. The middle sagged and the finale was the usual vomit of CGI (which was surprisingly sub par for the entire film). Still, as I say, Vulture and his crew were the best superhero villains since Dr Octopus back in the day, and worth seeing the film for on their own.

I think I'm just sick of superhero films. Having seen War for the Planet of the Apes use CGI to create real, emotional characters and narratives, going back to the crash-bang-wallop of Marvel was just a bit boring.

Dead inside. I'm with you on that most superhero films are forgettable but this had something special about it.

It wasn't bad per se but I'd been to see three cracking films in a row (Dunkirk, WftPotA and The Big Sick) and this just didn't hold a candle to any of them. Judged against other superhero films yeah it's probably an 8. Judged as a film in its own right, definitely a 6. In my opinion.

Contact

I thought this was lovely. Not sure why I haven't seen it before, but I'm glad I watched it. It goes very sci-fi in the last half, but it pulled off the shift in tone. I couldn't really guess what was going to happen at that point. I think it handled the later scenes very well. It could have fallen pretty flat, but it didn't.

Thumbs up.

Dunkirk - hhhhhmmmm

Not sure how to rate this one. I loved the use of sound, best bullet sound effects I've heard in ages. Loved the stuff on the boat and the spitfire moments. Loved the build up towards the end. Loved the sense of danger in each scene.

However I wasn't keen on the use of time within the film or the sense of scale. Which was tiny, I counted 25 boats at one point and it never felt like more than 2,000 troops. It really needed a few long shots of tons of soldiers and boats.

Its a lot shorter than his other work and felt a lot rougher around the edges too.

Worth a watch but not a patch on his best films.

Also Harry was very good in it, didn't expect that at all.

Dirty Dancing - 7/10

Mad Max Fury Road - 8/10

+ Looks great
+ Plot is kept simple which works well
+ Some very good action sequences
+ Soundtrack is effective at ramping up tension and complimenting the action
+ Courtney Eaton

- Some of the action scenes went on for too long

Lotus wrote:+ Courtney Eaton

Yes!

Valarian & The Biggest load of gooseberry fool in the Galaxy

Awful.

Simply.

Awful.

The Founder - 8/10; Didn't realise there was shenanigans in the start up of McDonalds, Michael Keaton is one of my fave actors over the past 2-3 years, great film.

Ghost in the Shell (2017) - 7.5/10

I love the original animated version and had fairly low expectations that a live-action remake/reboot would work but this turned out surprisingly well.

There's a few unnecessary changes and simplifications to the plot which were fairly inevitable for a Hollywood remake but overall they did a decent job, I liked the inclusion of the the brilliant theme from the original film but it should have been used in the intro instead of just the credits.

Also, Scarlett looked as lovely as ever

Went to see Cars 3 with my lad yesterday. I would say it's the best cars film in the series. Entirely enjoyable and watchable.

Sausage Party - 3/0

Turned it off after about 10 minutes, load of rubbish. It's like the creators thought that swearing lots (to the point of distraction) equals funny. Just came across as tryhard and immature.

Preezy wrote:Sausage Party - 3/0

Turned it off after about 10 minutes, load of rubbish. It's like the creators thought that swearing lots (to the point of distraction) equals funny. Just came across as tryhard and immature.

For some reason I watched the whole thing. It really is utterly awful, 3/10 is way too generous.

Preezy wrote:Sausage Party - 3/0

Turned it off after about 10 minutes, load of rubbish. It's like the creators thought that swearing lots (to the point of distraction) equals funny. Just came across as tryhard and immature.

You turned it off after 10 minutes and still gave it 3/10?

I extrapolated the score for the first 15 across the length of the movie.

Preezy wrote:I extrapolated the score for the first 15 across the length of the movie.

Preezy wrote:Turned it off after about 10 minutes

I think Preezy is the wolf.

Damn, caught up in the web of my own lies. The spider has become the fly