He said “tell him it is what it is.”
He said that?
Yea
Great movie. Yea super long though. I’m so glad Pacino and DeNiro got together on screen again. Godfather II was so good but they don’t share any screen time bc of the flash back setup.
In 1995 Heat was really their first movie together and it was such a masterpiece! If they never did a movie together ever again that would have been fine. Then in 2008 they ruined it with Righteous Kill. It’s not the worst movie ever and if they had done 5 or 6 films together it would have been no big deal, but it was the the only other one besides Heat and Godfather II (which doesn’t really count). Irishman is way better than Righteous Kill and redeems them for that silly thing. Also Joe Pesci was as fantastic as he has ever been and I believe he steals the show.
“Get back, Jojo !”
Had a blast watching the first part of “Get Back”. It’s more emotional, I think, than “Eight Days A Week” (2016) which covered the touring years. I prefer the late-Beatles than the early-, and because we dive into the intimacy of the recordings. My top 3 favorite songs : “Norwegian Wood” | “Back In The U.S.S.R.” | “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
A young fashion student moves to London, where she becomes entranced with this 60’s world in her dreams. But it soon becomes a haunting, as events of decades past begin to consume her thoughts in the day.
Ooh, this was a good scary film. Not one of Edgar Wright’s best, but it was still very enjoyable.
Best part of the film has to be the old-timey soundtrack. Lots of vintage tracks throughout the film, used to great effect for wonder and creep-factor.
I actually didn’t find the movie all that scary. Only two moments made me jump out of my seat, but surprisingly I found the scares were pretty tame and only a bit unnerving.
I do have some issues with the film, in that it feels a bit too long with the 60’s mystery that begins to develop and a certain plot point that goes to a dead end. Plus, the ghosts that haunt her I feel don’t have much scare-factor to them. They can’t do anything to her, they don’t harm or possess her, just stand there and occasionally make her lose her mind in public. Their faceless designs are pretty scary though!
There’s a reveal in the third act that I found pretty subdued and kind of a “Oh, cool, mystery solved then”, but then there’s also a twist a few seconds later that I loved.
All in all, it’s not the “revolution of horror” I was expecting from Edgar (like how Jordan Peele did with Get Out), but he has a good take on it and uses his editing and cinematography style really well with it.
Edit: Ooh! And the sound! Forgot to mention that. Seeing this at a theatre is best, it has great uses of surround sound and volume for tense, musical moments!
Watched Mortal Kombat (2021), as a videogame movie adaption it was not something I expected a lot from, other then gore. It’s not a masterpiece, but it does what it sets out to do in a fairly competent way. I enjoyed it for what it was. The only thing that took me out of the experience was characters quoting famous quotes from the videogame, like “fatality”, “Kano wins” and “Flawless Victory” in what world would anyone say such things. I don’t need the characters to say it, I already know I’m watching Mortal Kombat. If the movie had a tournament setting, with an announcer it would seem more logical. It reminded me I was watching a videogame movie and it often broke the 4th wall, as a little (far to big) wink at the audience.
Anyway fun movie, with a some cool fights. Especially Scorpion vs Sub-zero. The movie is at it’s height at the beginning.
Yeah the fights are awesome but the story is trash and I dont like Cole Young, he’s a very boring character.
I enjoyed Kano a lot, he’s the best thing in the entire movie.
All in all the movie isnt as bad as Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, but also not as good as Mortal Kombat from 1995
I didn’t just see it, but this article is super interesting. It’s all about the making of the movie Street Fighter and the many issues the studio faced. All this talk of the new Mortal Kombat movie remained me I stumbled across this.
Sadly not yet, it’s hard to find the Japanese original. It’s already a cult/niche film with a limited release, often it lacks which version your are buying. Also I haven’t been able to find it on Blu-ray, watching anything under 1080p is rather hard.
It’s not really a huge difference between the two versions. There’s a few more scenes of the fishermen at the beginning of the film thinking it’s nuclear testing, a few scenes in the political gatherings to talk about what’s happening in the ocean, and a few more scenes at the end showing the aftermath and death toll, but you already see brief snippets of those in the American version and they don’t really add much except emotional toll, and it’s not likely to affect a modern viewer that much. You’re more likely to feel sorry for the people as Godzilla is actively killing them.
I personally prefer the version with Raymond Burr as Steve Martin’s newsman, as the way he presents the events are meant for the rest of the world to understand what’s happening as it’s happening, and you know it’s getting closer to him.
My opinion of course, but after seeing both versions, neither one is really any “better” than the other, they both get the point across the way they need to, and Godzilla is the real star either way.
No disrespect for Raymond Burr, but i think the American Version is the inferior of the two.
I think it takes away from the impact of the Movies meaning, the removal of the scenes in the beginning for example.
Its made so American Audiences wont feel too bad for nuking Japan twice and the “Lucky Dragon 5” incident, imo.
But even with the “pro” American alterations its still a good movie, but the original cut is better.
Always nice with opinions, but personally I want to experience the original first and foremost. Then down the line one can always watch the US version to compare the two.
Oh, sure. I’m just saying that if it takes you a while to locate a decent version to watch, you’re not missing out on anything too crucial.
True, but the scenes that aren’t present in the American version don’t really have the same resonance today that they would have being viewed way back when. It’s more filler than anything. The American version adds more in than it takes out.
And this is not to disrespect the message being made with what was in the original version, it’s just that all the talk I’d heard about the original version that was so much better than the American butchered version, that I was expecting something significantly different and spectacular, and it’s really just a few more scenes of people talking about things viewers of the American version already know is going on, or scenes of more people dying of radiation burns.
I was expecting far more from the original version when I saw it, but it was more like an extended version of the Japanese scenes already in the version I’d seen, and without the Steve Martin commentary during the attack, it seemed if anything that it had less than more. To me.
Ok, haven’t seen it yet, but I’m hoping someone here has see Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City (stupid title, btw). Anyone who has, while I know that the director said there are no Tyrants in the movie (stupid decision, btw), can someone tell me if there are at least some honest-to-God Hunters in the movie and not just Lickers.
This was a very good read. Didnt know Van Damme was such a diva and a cokehead haha! So many things going wrong and they still managed to finish the movie is an impressive thing!
Honestly, I have no clue what the appropriate thread would be to put this information, but the Spider Man: No Way Home soundtrack has leaked and is in the wild.
While Sony and Kevin Feige are sniping down these leaks at a pace where they are hard to obtain and hear. They are also very spoiler heavy. I say this cause I had the displeasure or pleasure (depending on how you view it) to hear the said score that leaked.
I’m not gonna confirm anything since the film is coming out soon and the hype surrounding it is up to par with endgame atleast in my opinion. Just take this as a warning while using the internet.
It’s more emotional, I think, than “Eight Days A Week” (2016) which covered the touring years. I prefer the late-Beatles than the early-, and because we dive into the intimacy of the recordings. 
My top 3 favorite songs : “Norwegian Wood” | “Back In The U.S.S.R.” | “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
