Let's Talk Movies #35 – Sparrows and Panthers and Dinosaurs…Oh My!

Which Movies Might You See? (Multiple Votes Allowed)

  • Feb. 16th - Black Panther – Action adventure with Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyo

    Votes: 32 60.4%

  • March 2nd - Red Sparrow – Mystery thriller with Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Mary-Louise Pa

    Votes: 15 28.3%

  • March 9th - A Wrinkle In Time – Adventure fantasy with Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Oprah Winfr

    Votes: 26 49.1%

  • March 16th - Tomb Raider – Action adventure with Alicia Vikander, Walton Goggins and Kristin Scott T

    Votes: 10 18.9%

  • March 30th – Ready Player One – Sci-fi adventure with Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke and Simon Pegg

    Votes: 10 18.9%

  • May 4th - Avengers: Infinity War – Adventure fantasy with nobody famous

    Votes: 27 50.9%

  • May 18th - Deadpool 2 – Adventure comedy with Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin and T. J. Miller

    Votes: 19 35.8%

  • May 25th - Solo: A Star Wars Story – Adventure fantsy with Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover and Woody

    Votes: 27 50.9%

  • June 8th - Ocean's 8 – Action thriller with Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway

    Votes: 24 45.3%

  • June 22nd - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Action sci-fi with Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and

    Votes: 22 41.5%
  • Total voters
    53
Just came back from The isle of Dogs which was very enjoyable. It follows many of the typical Anderson's codes in regards with colors, symmetry, dead pan humor, familiar actor's voices ... I'm not a fan of Wes Anderson, I mainly like The Darjeeling Limited (most probably thanks to the presence of Adrien Brody and a fantastic soundtrack) but got annoyed by other of his projects. However, this was quite charming and the animation is just amazing, the details are impressive, some shots are like Japanese print with a clear homage to Hokusai. I could have done without the exchange student character though, extremely irritating. Plus
I'm thinking the japenese students certainly didn't need the help of a blond Ohio teenager to save the day.
Next stop, we've got our ticket for the Avengers on Saturday. I'm ready to have my ears shattered by the decibels as it will undoubtedly be much louder than the isle of dogs :D
 
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Trailers For Movies Released 2018-04-27th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipS5A-VroU5QZ5RWh_Cr6sRZ


April 27th - Avengers: Infinity War (Wide) – Adventure with Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Elizabeth Olsen, Linda Cardellini, Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Vin Diesel, Idris Elba, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Benicio Del Toro, Bradley Cooper, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Dinklage, Angela Bassett and Michael Douglas

April 27th - Disobedience (Limited) – Romance with Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola

April 27th - Kings (Limited) – Crime drama with Halle Berry, Daniel Craig and Rachel Hilson

April 27th - The House of Tomorrow (Limited) – Comedy drama with Asa Butterfield, Alex Wolff, Nick Offerman, Ellen Burstyn and Fred Armisen

April 27th - Backstabbing For Beginners (Limited) – Drama with Theo James, Ben Kingsley and Jacqueline Bisset

April 27th - The Test and the Art of Thinking (Limited – New York, Los Angeles on May 4th) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “For decades, the SAT & ACT have loomed colossal as a teenage rite of passage for those aspiring to college in the U.S. The experience, and the score, remain indelible for many. Students, academics, and test-taking professionals expose the bias and influence, both cultural and psychological, in this surprising documentary.”

April 27th – Supercon (Limited) – Comedy with Maggie Grace, Clancy Brown, Ryan Kwanten, Mike Epps and Russell Peters

April 27th – The Escape of Prisoner 614 (Limited) – Adventure comedy with Ron Perlman, Martin Starr [Silincon Valley] and Jake McDorman [Limitless]

April 27th - Adventures in Public School (Limited) – Comedy with Judy Greer and Russell Peters

April 27th - Duck Butter (Limited) – Romantic comedy drama with Alia Shawkat [Arrested Development] and Mae Whitman [Good Girls, Family Guy]

April 27th - Let The Sunshine In (Limited) – French romantic comedy drama with Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu

April 27th - In The Last Days of The City (Limited) – Arabic drama. From imdb.com: “Downtown Cairo, 2009. Khalid, a 35 year old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life.”
 
Avengers Infinity War = G.O.A.T. and I am going to see it again on Sunday! :cheer2:

P.S.
There is only one post credit scene and it is an important one so don't leave!
 
Just watched Coming Home, another brilliant collaboration between actress Gong Li and director Zhang Yimou. A subtly (and therefore more powerfully) heartbreaking movie about the personal repercussions of the cultural revolution in China. Li's performance is so perfect. I was going to post that she deserved an Oscar nomination for this performance, but after I reviewed the nominations and winners for the 88th Academy Awards, I think that Coming Home deserved nominations for picture, director, actress, actor (Daoming Chen, playing the husband) and supporting actress (Huiwen Zhang, their daughter). I believe these awards were the year that received the #Oscarssowhite backlash, with all twenty acting nominations going to Caucasians. They definitely screwed up by not nominating all of the people involved with this movie.
 
I saw Avengers last night. Personally I found it a bit unsatisfying. As with most of the big action movies these days, they just have massive fight scenes for the sake of massive fight scenes with loads of collateral damage. I think they are kind of losing edge because of it.

Having said that, I though Thanos (played by Josh Brolin) was a much more interesting villain and had more dimensions to him than most of the villains in movies these days.

And you need to stay to the very end for the spoiler.
 
Two girl power movies I enjoyed: The Beguiled and Joy.

I was thinking that I was happy to (finally) LOVE a movie directed by Sofia Coppola, but I checked her filmography at Wikipedia and she directed The Bling Ring and Marie Antoinette, both of which I enjoyed. Lost In Translation was okay, but I didn't enjoy it like everybody else seemed to. The Beguiled is her best though, and the cast (Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst) are brilliant. I was so into the story that when it was over, I found myself missing the characters and wishing this was an ongoing TV show.

Joy was a surprise in that the script was more interesting than I expected and Jennifer Lawrence's performance was actually understated, I expected big fireworks, especially since that's how David O. Russell seems to always want to direct her to do. The rest of the cast went for over-the-top, but it was really nice to see Lawrence make subtle choices so often with her performance.
 
PeterG said:
The Beguiled is her best though, and the cast (Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst) are brilliant.
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Is "The Beguiled" the remake of the Clint Eastwood film? The injured civil war soldier and ends up in an all girls school and he learns the lesson of a woman's wrath?
 
mpal2 said:
Is "The Beguiled" the remake of the Clint Eastwood film? The injured civil war soldier and ends up in an all girls school and he learns the lesson of a woman's wrath?
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I'm not sure if it was one of the DVD extras, or in an article I read (I think the former), Coppola said that friends of her brought the Eastwood movie to her and thought it would be something to remake. But told from the perspective of the women, rather than of the man. So it was re-written for people to experience the story anew, from this new point of view. Often I'm interested in seeing original versions of films I like, but I fear watching Eastwood's version might make me angry... :mad:
 
PeterG said:
Often I'm interested in seeing original versions of films I like, but I fear watching Eastwood's version might make me angry... :mad:
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I think you would like it. It's been a very long time since I've seen it but I left feeling like he got what he deserved without playing him off as a victim of anything but his own bullshit. If the original film was ever meant to exude sympathy for Eastwood it didn't work on me. He was kind of clueless to what he was setting up. It would be interesting to see it from the lady's viewpoint so I'll have to put The Beguiled on my list.

ETA: I only saw the tv version so I'm sure they edited out a lot. I would be interested to hear your take on the complete version.
 
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15/15 although I really had to think about number 13 because of the colours.

I don't think I've ever gotten all of the questions right on one of these before.
 
PeterG said:
But told from the perspective of the women, rather than of the man. So it was re-written for people to experience the story anew, from this new point of view. Often I'm interested in seeing original versions of films I like, but I fear watching Eastwood's version might make me angry... :mad:
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I saw the Eastwood version when I was in my teens, but I've never forgotten it. I don't know if it would make me angry if I watched it again today - but a lot of movies make me angry when I look at them from a feminist perspective.

I'd actually forgotten about 'The Beguiled', so that's for the reminder as I'd like to see it (on Pay per View)
 
I saw the beguiled. There was lots of eye candy because all the actors were so pretty. I liked the flip where the women were the bad guys. I can’t inagine a movie with Eastwood where Eastwood doesn’t prevail, so I bet the original is different.

Just saw isle of dogs. Very clever and fun. My bf said he liked Anderson’s fox movie better but i didn’t see that one.
 
12/15, not bad. We saw avengers yesterday. I enjoyed the fact they chose to instill more humor than in the last one which I thought was way too grim. You can feel the Thor Ragnarok and the Guardians of the Galaxy effect. The first half was quite calm with the bigger fights at the end. It was well paced out and not too overwhelming sound wise. There is supposed to be a 4th one right ?
 
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Avengers Infinity War is breaking records for Hollywood movies in India where Hollywood movies traditionally don't do well.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ood-release-in-india/articleshow/63949143.cms


ETA:
Avengers Infinity War is believed to have had the biggest opening weekend of all time with an estimated $250m in North America and $630m WW and that is without China and Russia. So in other words the movie has made back both it's production and advertising budgets in one weekend! Except for Rampage all the movies in the top five preformed above expectations which still includes Black Panther at #5! :cheer2:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4393&p=.htm
 
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How To Be Single was better than I expected. I remember seeing the trailer and it looked like a gross-out comedy with Rebel Wilson at the centre being as gross as she possibly could. But the movie is more about three women figuring out relationships and maybe singlehood. It had more heart than I expected. There's plenty of comedy, but very little of the gross-out-ness the trailer seemed to focus on. Maybe boor-ish people go to movies more often than non-boors, so the movie-makers were trying to trick an audience into seeing what is actually a nice, sweet movie. :lol: Dakota Johnson was fine in her role, she's been criticized a lot because of the Fifty Shades movies, but she's the central character here and does a good job being the sweet one amongst some wild and/or neurotic characters. Glad I saw this one. :)
 
I really enjoyed How to be Single. The other movie in a similar genre that came out around the same time was Sleeping with Other People. Funny Alison Brie was in both of them.
 
Just got back from Blockers. It was a bit better than I expected. A good mix of comedy and heartwarming parent-child relationship stuff. John Cena was probably the best in this movie, but Leslie Mann was good as well. I think Cena is more than ready to headline a movie on his own. He was even better in Trainwreck, if you saw that in the theatre, check out the DVD extras where his ad-libbing is freaking hilarious. I wonder if Cena will start doing action movies soon. That's what's expected from somebody like him, so it's cool that he's focussed on comedies to show how funny he is instead of just being a muscle dude.

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Some new movie trailers:

Hereditary – Horror mystery with Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne and Alex Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzs9OYdqVbM
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I saw a different trailer for this played before A Quiet Place. It was an even better trailer than this one and looks like it's going to be REALLY good. I hope Collette has a monster hit with this.

AngieNikodinovLove said:
*** LADY GAGA ALERT****

My friend who works in Marketing over at Warner Bros says that execs think "A Star Is Born" with Gaga and Bradley Cooper is so good that they have reassigned its premier to Oscar campaign Season.
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Funny, I was wondering about this movie a while back and checked the release date. At that time, it was set for a May release, so I thought, "good, not too long to wait". Now the release date isn't until October 5th. :(
 
@PeterG I saw Blockers yesterday too. I really enjoyed it! I won't remember it in a couple of months but it was certainly a really fun ride. Nice for a story to focus on empowered young high school girls and the sex positivity message, and also a focus on female friendship is always nice. The chemistry between the high schoolers was lovely, as was the chemistry between the parents.
 
Trailers For Movies Released 2018-05-04th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipTaT2RkzlQJl5cA2vW0-aO3

I wanted to like the first two movies on this week's list. But both trailers looked like letdowns. If anyone sees either of them, I'd like to know if you recommend the movie or not. At least there's Tully, which looks a little dark, but the end of the trailer made it look more promising. :40beers:


May 4th - Overboard (Wide) – Comedy with Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, Swoosie Kurtz and Eugenio Derbez [How To Be A Latin Lover]

May 4th - Bad Samaritan (Wide) - Thriller with David Tennant and Kerry Condon [Better Call Saul]

May 4th - Tully (Wide) – Comedy drama with Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis [Blade Runner 2049], Ron Livingston and Mark Duplass

May 4th - The Cleanse (Limited) – Fantasy comedy drama with Johnny Galecki, Angelica Houston and Oliver Platt

May 4th - Con Is On (Limited) – Comedy with Alice Eve, Parker Posey, Maggie Q, Sofia Vergara, Uma Thurman, Crispin Glover, Tim Roth, Melissa Sue Anderson and Stephen Fry

May 4th - The Son of Bigfoot (Limited) – Animated, new cast. From imdb.com: “Teenage outsider Adam sets out on an epic and daring quest to uncover the mystery behind his long-lost dad, only to find out that he is none other than the legendary Bigfoot!”

May 4th - Alex & The List (Limited) – Romantic comedy with Karen Gillan, Jennifer Morrison, Patrick Fugit, Eddie Kaye Thomas, JoBeth Williams, Michael Nouri, Lesley-Anne Down, Gilles Marini and Victoria Tennant

May 1st - Jewel’s Catch One (Limited - Netflix) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “With 4 strikes against her (black, female, poor and a lesbian), our trailblazer , Jewel Thais-Williams, helped changed laws, save lives and influence communities across Los Angeles, California as she opened her legendary nightclub's door for 42 years.”

May 4th - Ray Meets Helen (Limited) – Fantasy romance with Keith Carradine, Sondra Locke, Kim Wayans and Jennifer Tilly

May 4th - Gehenna: Where Death Lives (Limited) – Horror mystery thriller with Doug Jones [The Shape of Water] and Lance Henriksen

May 4th - RBG (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

May 1st - Most Likely to Murder (Limited) – Comedy with Rachel Bloom [Crazy Ex-Girlfriend], Adam Pally, Didi Conn, Billy Eichner and Hasan Minaj [The Daily Show]

May 4th - Altered Perception (Limited) – Fantasy mystery, new cast. From imdb.com: “A drug that alters perceptions during trauma and stress, is being advertised as a cure for socio-political tensions. Several couples volunteer for human trials but end up with more than they bargained for.”

May 4th - Strangers on the Earth (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “Perhaps Europe's most popular pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago attracts wayfarers of all stripes to walk its ancient paths in search of meaning.”

May 4th - The 12th Man (Limited) – War drama from Norway with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. From imdb.com: “They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one who got away...”

May 4th - Racer and the Jailbird (Limited) – Crime drama with Matthias Schoenaerts. From imdb.com: “When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. Passionate. Unconditional. Fiery. But Gino hides has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger your life and the lives of those ones around you.”

May 4th - The Guardians (Limited) – Action sci-fi from Russia. From imdb.com: “During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.”

May 4th - Angels Wear White (Limited) – Drama from China. From imdb.com: “In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.”

May 4th - 102 Not Out (Limited) – Indian comedy. From imdb.com: “102 Not Out is a 2018 comedy-drama film, with legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan playing a 102-year-old wanting to break the oldest-man-alive record. Another Bollywood legend Rishi Kapoor plays his sad and grumpy 75-year-old son.”
 
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