“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Nintex]

Went to see Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One  

Great action romp but I don't like that it's just a 'part one' of something leaving us hanging in the end.

[Besticus Maximus]

Watched Talk to Me at a secret cinema thing a few days ago. Film absolutely ruled.

[Snoopy]

Watched The Lobster last night. It was weird but good. I won't say anything about the plot except that it's a dystopian sci fi thing where being single is illegal. It's very funny and surprisingly has an all star cast.

[Eric Cartman]

Watched The Many Saints Of Newark and kind of regret it, because its so superfluous. Even more so than El Camino, which at least wrapped up a couple of things that weren't addressed in the finale of Breaking Bad (or, much later, the finale of Better Call Saul).

I mean... it's an okay watch, but it doesn't add anything to The Sopranos or even really relate to the TV show given its set so far before it started.
I guess maybe the creator wanted to spend some time with some of the sidecast in their prime? HBO were stealth piloting for a Young Tony series?

No idea. Sadly forgettable and kind of tarnishes the Sopranos just by its existence.

[Eric Cartman]

I also watched Brooklyns Finest which I'd never heard of, and was fucking great.
Its the story of three cops in Brooklyn that loosely interconnect at the end of the film - one is a burnt out 'seen it all' hoping to coast into retirement with minimal drama, one is an undercover deeply embedded in a drugs gang, and one is dirty as hell taking cash where he can, and all of them have a little bit of a career swerve to put it mildly.

After watching I found out its by the guy who made Training Day, which checks out as its a very similar tone and subject - I dunno how this flew under my radar tbh.

[Snoopy]

Michael Imperioli said last year that he was working with Chase on a new project. We can only pray it has nothing to do with The Sopranos. That Saints film was a massive disappointment and a total waste of time.

[benji]

This is probably nothing but i still find it quite interesting.

In TDK or TDKR Alfred said to Bruce that he would go to this cafe in Florence every year and he wish he would see Bruce there, retired from batman and truly enjoy/live his personal life.

In Good Will Hunting, Chuckie (Ben Affleck's character) told Will (Matt Damon's character) that he wish one day when he comes knocking on his door he wouldn't be there, that Will would finally moved on to pursue a greater life, or doing whatever with his intelligence. He would be so happy to finally not seeing Will there.

It's kinda wholesome coincidence, especially upon the ending of both film Alfred and Chuckie did smile and looked truly happy to see their loved one finally live their lives. Maybe it's Nolan intended reference?

Too add to this. Decades later Affleck casted as Batman, even though it's not in the same film/universe but still worth noting this series of coincidences!

Anyone notices this too?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Hey, that's the name of the thread!

[Nintex]

Watched Fast X it was a fun action romp.

Jason Mamoa works much better as an unhinged villain than he does as Aquaman. Brie Larson also played her part well which just goes to show that it's mostly just the comic book movies holding her back. I do think that this should've been just a 1 part movie though. Another movie with a chase scene in a city that dragged on just a bit too long just like Mission Impossible. The race on the other hand, was over in a minute.

I like my chase scenes short and sweet, like The Dark Knight, Casino Royale and The Bourne Identity. For some reason they're getting longer and longer.

[Nintex]

Went to see Gran Turismo.

Sort of an impulse decision to go see a movie with a bud that we both hadn't seen yet.
Went in with 0 expectations and got out impressed and surprised. There's a lot of Nissan/PlayStation product placement yes but it's an inspiring and interesting story to see Sim racers be competitive in actual car races. However, they took a lot of liberties depicting Janns career. Shifting key races and events around to fit their narrative.

[chronovore]

Re-watched INTERSTELLAR on the flight back from the USA to Japan. I own a mess of Nolan's movies, but this was not among mine. I know a 13" screen on a seatback is not Nolan's preferred display surface and, competing with jet-engines, his sound mix becomes even less intelligible. That said, it's a fantastic movie with more human pathos than is on display in anything else his other than Inception.

[Nintex]

The soundtrack is godly. I've been blessed to see and hear Hans Zimmer perform it live with Pedro, Guo and the others two times now and it was absolutely fantastic. 
 

I often get the urge to watch Interstellar when I see other sci-fi stuff like Starfield and Mass Effect and it never dissapoints.


For a while I figured it was Zimmer that wanted the music LOUD in Nolan movies but then he didn't do TeneT and that was also very loud.

[Polident]

No Hard Feelings was entertaining. For her status as an A list actor with franchise films and Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence’s willingness to get lowbrow is endearing. She goes all in. None of her peers would willingly make themselves look that bad (in a good way).

[Nintex]

Her acting skills and range are very underrated. Most people say that she's just eye candy or got lucky with her role in the Hunger Games but no matter the film, she always puts in the work. In fact I would argue a bunch of her films (Red Sparrow, Hunger Games etc.) wouldn't be as good with a different actor.

[Polident]

To me it’s more than talent. It’s that she’s risking her brand. Margot Robbie has range and all, but she wouldn’t have a sloppy nude beach right pulling off a suplex with merkin in full view.

[chronovore]

Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 is really moving and wonderful. Much better writing than I expected. A warm send off with laughs and tears. Best Marvel film in years is damning with faint praise.

[Eric Cartman]

My takeaway thoughts on GOTG v3 were:

• This is gonna singlehandedly inspire a new generations worth of anti-animal testing sentiment - this is how you do good and relevant social commentary and getting people engaged rather than feeling lectured like oh-so-much of disneys other recent output
  
• High Evolutionary was much more threatening as a bad guy than Kang has ever been portrayed, one of the better MCU bad guys so far in fact.
  
• I could well be wrong, but even if nobody is gonna admit it, I'm fairly sure this is at least partially an unofficial adaptation of We3 - channelling a lot of the same vibes.
  

e: oh, according to wikipedia apparently james gunn openly admitted he was riffing off we3

[benji]

When we finally abolish the state I'm going to require all movie studios to issue at least one trailer/ad in the old style from the before times, this is real the guy just upscaled it:

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

Watched The Many Saints Of Newark and kind of regret it, because its so superfluous. Even more so than El Camino, which at least wrapped up a couple of things that weren't addressed in the finale of Breaking Bad (or, much later, the finale of Better Call Saul).

I mean... it's an okay watch, but it doesn't add anything to The Sopranos or even really relate to the TV show given its set so far before it started.
I guess maybe the creator wanted to spend some time with some of the sidecast in their prime? HBO were stealth piloting for a Young Tony series?

No idea. Sadly forgettable and kind of tarnishes the Sopranos just by its existence.

If they weren't going to add any new perspective, they could have had a rad heist or something to underpin it, instead you got a boring 2.5 hour character piece with a shitty "gang war" to add the spice.

[Nintex]

When we finally abolish the state I'm going to require all movie studios to issue at least one trailer/ad in the old style from the before times, this is real the guy just upscaled it:

This needs to be a day 1 executive order

[Potato]

The studio clearly had no faith that the "dark and edgy" Batman would be a hit and tried to goofball the trailer a bit to make it more "Tim Burton".

[Polident]

I watched Ticket to Paradise on a flight. Clooney and Roberts are charming enough. But I need to research why it was made. Read to credits to see if it was legit just a tourism ad x money laundering.

There’s this running plot through the movie about a lake house and how it trigger their divorce. Little by little it’s peppered in that it burnt down. How it’s metaphorically and literally their marriage. How Clooney kept the land with hopes of rebuilding. Etc. So in any story, that’s the ending. They rebuild the house and marriage. But the last minute, they decide to stay in Bali? A place so magical their also abandoned her career to live there. Spend 90 or so minutes seeing famous Hollywood actors learn about the culture and visit sites… except, it’s not Indonesia. Per the credits, it’s filmed in Australia with CGI’d in landmarks. This is endgame actor shit. They pay you to vacation and ten minutes a day you read lines.

From what I can tell, this is the director’s thing. He’s done The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Mamma Mia, too. Good gig.

[Nintex]

DUNE 2 delayed to 2024 

[Nintex]

But we might get a part 3

[Tucker's Law]

 You all better fuckin go and watch Dune Pt 2 in theaters so that we can get Messiah on the big screen.  For too long have the people been deprived of some Ghola hijinks.

[Potato]

I'll be there.

[Potato]

I give this about a 100% chance of being a massively cool concept and about a 0% chance of not being ruined by Snyder's heavy handed direction.

[Polident]

Man can make a trailer.

Really looking forward to it. I know it began as some Star Wars pitch, but uniquely appealing to me is how it resembles 90s Star Wars media. The Dark Forces games and books, with grit and grime that’s been cleaned out of Star Wars.

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

I give this about a 100% chance of being a massively cool concept and about a 0% chance of not being ruined by Snyder's heavy handed direction.

Netflix 

[PhoenixDark]

But we might get a part 3

Nah I refuse to believe this will happen lmao.