Let's Talk Movies #33: Star Wars: Jabba Rising...Captain America Trumps China...and MORE!

Which Movies Might You See In 2017? (Multiple Votes Allowed)

  • The Lego Batman Movie

    Votes: 12 20.7%

  • The Great Wall

    Votes: 5 8.6%

  • Logan

    Votes: 11 19.0%

  • T2: Trainspotting

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Kong: Skull Island

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Votes: 39 67.2%

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

    Votes: 28 48.3%

  • Snatched

    Votes: 6 10.3%

  • Alien: Covenant

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

    Votes: 11 19.0%
  • Total voters
    58
kwanfan1818 said:
When summoned :)

I'm hoping to see it. I remember seeing Whelan when she first started at New York City Ballet, and there was something tadpole-like about her: there was stuff percolating around, but it hadn't quite formed yet. Then I saw her as the Novice in Jerome Robbins' "The Cage," and she was magnificent, like everything gelled at once. Or to paraphrase when Balanchine said to Stravinsky about Suzanne Farrell during rehearsals of "Movements for Orchestra," "Meet Wendy Whelan. Just been born."
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Found this article about it....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ballet-life-does-life-ballet-130929690.html
 
Buzz said:
Universal studios has announced it's line up for it's planned "Dark Universe" of monster movies. It kicks off next month with The Mummy reboot which will feature Russell Crowe of Dr. Jekyll.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/22/...ers-mummy-dark-universe-bride-of-frankenstein
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I'm wondering if it's a good idea to start a new franchise with a cast who are mostly in their 50's. I'm going to have to google and see if some of these guys are as old as I think they are...

I'm glad I checked before I stated how old I thought Russell Crowe might be... :lol:

Johnny Depp - 53
Tom Cruise - 54
Javier Bardem - 48
Russell Crowe - 53

Are these really the men that ticket buyers for these types of movies (teenage boys) want to see? Plus it's a pretty white looking group. Is Bardem the token person of colour? Couldn't they have made the Invisible Man an invisible African-descent person? Plus having one token female as part of the franchise (like with Marvel) is disappointing. And in the photo to this article, they haven't even cast the Bride of Frankenstein role and instead put in a young actress who is probably young enough to be any of these men's daughter. Hollywood is looking more and more like the Republican Party...a bunch of old, white, heterosexual - out of touch - men.
 
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They Call Us Monsters is a heartbreaking documentary about three young males under the age of 16 who are tried in court as adults as the law had been changed to treat all crimes the same, regardless of the age of the offender. All three come from poverty and suffering. For me, it was easy to see that these were good kids, but the horrible environment they grew up has resulted in them acting out the awful situations around them. One thing that frustrates me about movies like this is that they don't like at the crimes committed against these children and how no one is held responsible for the part they have played in leaving children to be raised in situations that way too often conclude with something horrible happening...to pretty much everyone involved. This documentary is definitely enlightening and I liked how a good portion of this film was about the young men being part of a screenwriting group and being involved in many aspects of the short film made from their script. If only more things like this had been offered to them before they ended up in such dire circumstances that crime became not only part of what was being done to them, but they started acting out in equally negative ways towards the community around them.
 
PeterG said:
They Call Us Monsters is a heartbreaking documentary about three young males under the age of 16 who are tried in court as adults as the law had been changed to treat all crimes the same, regardless of the age of the offender. All three come from poverty and suffering. For me, it was easy to see that these were good kids, but the horrible environment they grew up has resulted in them acting out the awful situations around them. One thing that frustrates me about movies like this is that they don't like at the crimes committed against these children and how no one is held responsible for the part they have played in leaving children to be raised in situations that way too often conclude with something horrible happening...to pretty much everyone involved. This documentary is definitely enlightening and I liked how a good portion of this film was about the young men being part of a screenwriting group and being involved in many aspects of the short film made from their script. If only more things like this had been offered to them before they ended up in such dire circumstances that crime became not only part of what was being done to them, but they started acting out in equally negative ways towards the community around them.
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I really want to watch this but this is gonna be heartbreaking, isn't it ?
 
I saw Free Fire last night. Stars Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy. It is staged in real time and is about a group of gun runners trying to make a sale. Really enjoyed it and had some funny situations.
 
cocotaffy said:
I really want to watch this but this is gonna be heartbreaking, isn't it ?
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Yes. But it's worth it. It's eye-opening. The three young men featured in this movie have committed crimes that under the new laws means they might be spending most or all of their adult lives in prison. (However, none of them are yet adults.) So we know or have an idea what they have done, yet at times I found myself seeing them in a protective environment where they are allowed to show their youthful side and I swear at times I saw six year olds who needed cuddling and tickle fight time. We actually do see them playing around with each other at times and it's tough not to see them as kids much younger than their sixteen year old selves. Another tough part of this movie is seeing politicians referring to these youths as evil. These middle-class people from their middle-class neighbourhoods in their middle-class jobs seem completely oblivious to the hardships of some children out there and are spending their time ensuring they got locked up instead of using their time to change the environments so youth have something positive to do with their time (we do get to see an exception with a Boys and Girls club moment...there needs to be a LOT more of things like this!!!). I don't believe in such a thing as "evil", but if I did, evil would be represented well by adults trying to jail youth instead of spending their time creating opportunities for youth to escape a destructive living environment. The movie actually is able to have a certain lightness to it giving the topic at hand. That's partly because the young men featured have not had their youthful joy stolen from them yet, so we get to see an endearing side to them that can't help but make you wish people were fighting harder for them to have some kind of hope for their future.
 
Aussie Willy said:
I saw Free Fire last night. Stars Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy. It is staged in real time and is about a group of gun runners trying to make a sale. Really enjoyed it and had some funny situations.
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I saw it about a month ago and thought it was pretty funny. A lot of great one-liners, and considering the main idea of the situation takes hold early on, still keeps interest and twisting and turning until the end.
 
I just saw a delightful movie called "Cook Up a Storm," and one of the two main characters looked like the love child of Yuzuru Hanyu and the young Joshua Bell, and there was bromance galore.

I was not expecting that ending, but I'm guessing many FSUers would have :).

I'm now on line for the Roberto Bolle documentary, which I've been told is quite beautiful, but with a subject like Bolle would be hard not to be, because, Bolle.
 
Went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 today. Tough to talk about it because we went with a friend of my friend's, who was the type to take up a lot of space and have no idea when he is invading somebody else's space. So I ended up scrunching up towards the far left of my seat and felt mildly physically uncomfortable the whole movie. Wanted to move over one seat or go sit in the back row (as I'm finding with these visually-splendid type films that there's too much on screen for my eyes - either that or I'm going blind and need more space for my failing eyes!) :lol: It is a beautiful looking film, lots of laughs and I liked them bringing back random pop songs from the 70's for us to be reminded of. Pratt was great, as was Zoe Saldana. Dave Bautista, too. Maybe I'll enjoy it more tomorrow once I've had a night of lots of space to take in the movie after my crammed-in experience from this afternoon.... :shuffle:
 
I enjoyed Hell or High Water more than I expected. Usually with heist movies it's all about big guns and big action scenes and big dramatics. While these parts of the story were well done, some restraint in how these scenes were filmed was shown, making it have a big impact in small way. Does that even make sense?? :lol: The movie just has a quiet power to it. Maybe this is a movie of oxymorons. Every time I think about this movie, I feel appreciative that I got to see it. I read that Chris Pine was glad to get to do a movie like this which has a depth to it. I can see why he felt that way...and he serves the material quite well. Ben Foster is the scenery-chewer in this one and it's debatable whether one might think if he moves just up to the line of going too far or crosses that line somewhat. I think maybe he went just far enough as both Jeff Bridges and Pine's characters are a restrained type of man, so Foster adds all the necessary spice to the story. Plus the theme of the movie, which is summarized with Bridges meeting Pine's character puts forward a wondrous moral debate which make for such a great public discussion, especially if everyone present was willing to take on the pro and the con role at different times. Big thumbs up for this one. :)
 
Saw Alien Covenant--wasn't quite what I was expecting, but fine all the way around. I was hoping for more about the Engineers, but that whole storyline was dropped unfortunately. None of the characters were compelling, but none were annoying either. David never really appealed to me, so to have so much focused on him didn't do much for me.
 
I watched Ithaca directed by Meg Ryan who also plays the mother in the family. Fourteen year old Homer becomes the man of the house & takes a job as a telegraph messenger during WWII when his father dies & his older brother joins the service. Likable movie with sweet & sad moments despite an unevenness. It has some visually lovely scenes, a few minutes with Tom Hanks, interesting characters in the telegraph office including Sam Shepard, & Homer's appealing older brother is played by a Quaid so I'm guessing the son of Ryan & Dennis Quaid. It's not surprising the movie is based on a play from the way the scenes are written & staged. The extended longing & thoughtful gazes in lieu of more dialog are also a give away it was directed by an actor.

Also saw The Accountant with Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick & J.K. Simmons. An autistic boy grows up to become a freelance accountant for criminal organizations & serves up his own brand of justice while he's at it. Interesting premise, but it was full of a lot more violence than I normally watch.
 
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Here is my must see list for the next few weeks!!! :watch: :cheer2:

1) Wonder Woman
2) The Mummy
3) Transformers
4) Spider-Man Homecoming
5) Dunkirk
6) The Dark Tower
 
Buzz said:
Here is my must see list for the next few weeks!!! :watch: :cheer2:

1) Wonder Woman
2) The Mummy
3) Transformers
4) Spider-Man Homecoming
5) Dunkirk
6) The Dark Tower
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Every time I see the trailer for Dunkirk, I want (need) to see it a bit more each time. Haven't seen the trailer yet for The Dark Tower...which seems strange to me. But it's late and I want to go to bed, so...maybe tomorrow! :lol:
 
Box-Office Milestone: 'Beauty and the Beast' Twirls Past $500M in the U.S.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-milestone-beauty-beast-crosses-500m-us-1008318

The live-action update of the classic animated film now ranks No. 8 on the list of all-time top earners domestically, not accounting for inflation.
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Beauty and the Beast has made a further 732 million internationally. It is now the tenth top-grossing film of all time. And it's the top grossing film of 2017, so far.
 
Finally saw Logan. It was too violent for me. I don't remember Wolverine as causing that much blood and gore in past efforts. I still enjoyed it and thought it was better made than some other X-men outings that got more press.
 
Just finished watching The Bomb, a 2015 PBS documentary about the history of the nuclear bomb. What does it say about us as humans that all of those involved in creating such destructive weapons are not currently institutionalized as criminally insane? The Cuban missile crisis doesn't come up in this movie until the last 20 minutes or so, and by then we've witnessed such insanity that you're scared for what's going to happen to planet earth even though we know we made it through all of that. It's also insane to me that we know that there's so much suffering going on in the world, yet here are all these people working to create weaponry which can ONLY cause even greater suffering (for those who are not yet experiencing suffering). Complete and utter insanity. Eye-opening, but oh so scary... :yikes: :yikes: :scream: :scream:
 
MacMadame said:
Finally saw Logan. It was too violent for me. I don't remember Wolverine as causing that much blood and gore in past efforts. I still enjoyed it and thought it was better made than some other X-men outings that got more press.
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In the movies he definitely hasn't, the came as close as they could in The Wolverine within the bounds of a PG13 movie but that was about the limits of what they could do without the R rating.

However there was a lot more blood and gore in the comics. I will fully admit to being on of the people who wanted and R rated Wolverine movie so that we could see something closer to what they did in the comics.

I really loved Logan, I haven't watched it since the home release, but my brother and I went opening night back in March and I really loved it. The story telling was everything I could have wanted from a Wolverine movie, it's as close to Old Man Logan as we were ever going to get because of the Marvel rights issues and Dafne Keen as X23 was so perfect.
 
Lebanese ministry calls for ban of Wonder Woman movie
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/wonder-woman-lebanon-campaign-1.4137397

The article mentions that Lebanon is officially at war with Israel and has a decades long policy of boycotting anything that could be seen as a product of Israel. With Wonder Woman, it specifically has to do with lead actress Gal Gadot:

The campaign on its Facebook page praised the ministry's call, saying it is advocating a ban because Gadot was a soldier in the Israeli army, and has expressed support for Israel's military policies against the Gaza Strip, a coastal Palestinian territory run by the militant Hamas group.
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But at least one theatre is playing Wonder Woman, even offering free popcorn to it's member's who are going to see this movie. And there are posters and other promotional material around Beirut for the movie.
 
2017 Cannes Film Festival award winners

The Palme d'Or (best film) is "The Square", a Swedish satirical drama which stars Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West. The plot from Wikipedia:

In the aftermath of the abolition of the Monarchy of Sweden, the Stockholm Palace has been converted into an art museum. Christian is a curator at the museum, managing a space set to show a new installation piece. He finds a public relations company to promote the installation, creating a great deal of chaos.
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Other award winners of note:

70th Anniversary Prize – Nicole Kidman (must be for the work over one's career?)

Best Director – Sofia Coppola for The Beguiled (wonder if votes were swayed her way after the talk of how women were so under-represented this - and past - year of the festival??)

Best Actress – Diane Kruger for In the Fade

Best Actor – Joaquin Phoenix for You Were Never Really Here

Special awards:

Honorary Palme d'Or – Jeffrey Katzenberg

Chopard Trophy – Anya Taylor-Joy and George MacKay

Carrosse d'Or – Werner Herzog
 
I saw Pirates last night. It was okay, but I don't really feel the need to see it again. None of the four sequels have displayed the same spirit of the first film; that one was great because it was simple, an adventure story with some fantasy elements. The story got way too big IMO in the subsequent movies (though I liked the 4th film a lot better than most people; I think it comes the closest to the first one).

One more sleep until Wonder Woman!! I'm unbelievably excited for this movie. :cheer:

Forgot to say this ages ago but I saw the Power Rangers movie, and as someone who grew up with the [first few seasons of] the show, I actually liked it. It was truly an origin story with a lot of set up for future movies, but I thought the story was developed really well. Outside of Krispy Kreme being mentioned way too many times, it worked for me. And I loved how diverse the cast was! Big thumbs up for that, so I hope it gets a sequel.
 
You'll probably want to skip reading this post if you want to watch Girl On The Train.

I was disappointed with it. Basically it's two hours of entertainment for us based on one woman's
suffering alone with the disease of alcoholism. Which disease should we next use for our entertainment purposes??
So that was really weird to realize after sitting with the movie for a bit. Leaves you feeling
kind of shameful
. :( The cast is great...I give credit to them more than to the director, who failed especially in the direction of
Justin Theroux's
character. Plus once the movie is over, you realize that pretty much every person is
unlikeable...cheaters, rapists, lairs, woman-beaters...at best is Emily Blunt as the lead character who's only fault is not really fighting to combat her disease very much
- which is pretty much forgiveable compared to every other character. So overall...four out of four blech's. :blah::blah::blah::blah:
 
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