Let's Talk Movies #34 - Kingsmen, Murder, Blade Runners and...IT!

Which Movies Might You See For The Rest of 2017? (Multiple Votes Allowed)

  • August 4th - The Dark Tower – Action adventure with Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba and Jackie Earle

    Votes: 14 24.6%
  • August 4th – Detroit – Crime drama with John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Will Poulter, Jack Reynor and J

    Votes: 8 14.0%
  • Oct. 6th – Blade Runner 2049 – Sci-fi with Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista

    Votes: 19 33.3%
  • September 8th – It – Horror, new cast. Based on the Stephen King novel

    Votes: 9 15.8%
  • Sep. 22nd - Kingsman: The Golden Circle – Action adventure with Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Str

    Votes: 15 26.3%
  • Nov. 3rd - Thor: Ragnarok – Action adventure with Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Cate Blanchett

    Votes: 21 36.8%
  • Nov. 10th – Murder On The Orient Express – Mystery with Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Joh

    Votes: 31 54.4%
  • Nov. 17th - Justice League – Action adventure with Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and basically

    Votes: 16 28.1%
  • Dec. 8th – The Shape of Water - Fantasy with Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins and Oct

    Votes: 13 22.8%
  • Dec. 15th - Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Action adventure with Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Mark Hami

    Votes: 41 71.9%

  • Total voters
    57
What does it say about me that every time a couple splits up, most specifically when the male achieves a much greater fame, that I always think it means that the man wants to play the field and take advantage of all the women showing interest in him? Interest unlike anything he's ever seen before. I never think that it's the woman who wants to get out there and get lots and lots o' lovin! :lol:
 
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I am thinking of seeing the Big Sick very soon, may be even tonight. I have heard many positives about it. Is it really good? I like Zoe Kazan but I heard she is in a coma most of the movie.
 
I was quite surprised by a movie called Don't Hang Up. It looks like a teen horror movie (and I guess it is), but it's much more than that. Towards the end I realized that this could make a good stage play. Which made me think of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. The premise of the movie is about a few teenagers who record themselves playing phone pranks on people, which they then post online. But then one night they are the one on the receiving end of a phone call and things go from strange to bad to worse to... It's quite a trip! :lol: I'd say this one is a psychological thriller instead of a horror movie. Nobody famous is in it, but I found out that one of the two male leads was in the live TV version of Hairspray playing the dreamboat the lead character was crushing on. Which really took me by surprise because the performances are so different. Not Daniel Day-Lewis suprise-like, but the kid has some range going on there. :respec:

Trailer for Don't Hang Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfxhDgxvT9Q
 
I was secretly hoping that Disney would buy Netflix someday. It still could happen. :slinkaway
 
Trailers for Movies Released 2017-08-11th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipRAmzKsGVggdnDaE3gue8vf


I'm really getting sick of the laziness that is Woody Harrelson. I want to see The Glass Castle, but definitely in spite of him and definitely not because of him. Dude...you're an actor. Can't you lose your amazingly thick accent...like maybe for every tenth role or so? To a lesser extent I'm starting to feel the same way about Jeff Bridges. Who not only keeps his instantly recognizable accent for every role, but he doesn't even change his LOOK from role to role. At least Harrelson lets the hair stylists and costumers have a go at him. /rant :D

August 11th - The Glass Castle (Wide) - Drama with Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts

August 11th - Annabelle: Creation (Wide) - Horror with Miranda Otto and Anthony LaPaglia

August 11th - The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (Wide) - Animated with Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl and Maya Rudolph

August 11th - Ingrid Goes West (Limited) - Comedy drama with Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen and Billy Magnussen

August 11th - Good Time (Limited) - Crime drama with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Robert Pattinson

August 11th - The Only Living Boy in New York (Limited) - Drama with Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Tate Donovan and Debi Mazar

August 11th - Naked (Streaming) - Comedy with Regina Hall, Neil Brown Jr., Marlon Wayans, Dennis Haysbert and Loretta Devine

August 11th - Pilgrimage (Limited) - Adventure drama with Tom Holland, Richard Armitage and Jon Bernthal

August 11th - The Trip to Spain (Limited) - Drama with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon

August 11th - Whose Streets? (Limited) - Documentary. From imdb.com: “Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.”

August 11th - Planetarium (Limited) - Fantasy with Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp

August 11th - Simple Creature (Limited) - Sci-fi thriller, new cast. From imdb.com: “An obliviously modern college student gets into a near-fatal bus accident, but is reborn through hybrid technology by her biotech father and his advanced lab.”

August 9th - Machines (Limited - New York) - Documentary. From imdb.com: “Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India.”

August 9th - After Love (Limited) - French drama with Oscar nominee Bérénice Bejo (The Artist). From imdb.com: “After 15 years of marriage, a couple with two kids is about to divorce. Until the husband find a new place to live, they have to cohabit, and figure out how to share their belongings.”

August 11th - Paris Is Happening aka Nocturama (Limited) - French thriller. From imdb.com: “Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before to take shelter for a night in a shopping center.”

August 11th - A Taxi Driver (Limited) - Korean action drama. From imdb.com: “A taxi driver played by Song Kang-Ho helps a German reporter cover the Gwangju Uprising Based on the true story of German reporter Jürgen Hinzpeter and Korean taxi driver Kim Sa-Bok.”

August 11th - In This Corner of the World (Limited) - Japanese animation. From imdb.com: “Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.”
 
Despicable Me ousts Shrek to become highest grossing animated franchise ever
http://entertainment.ie/cinema/news...t-grossing-animated-franchise-ever/396113.htm

They combine the spin-off films (Puss In Boots for Shrek and Minions for Despicalbe Me). And apparently Minions is the second highest-grossing animated film of all time?? :eek::confused::huh: Right behind Frozen, I take it? Had no idea it was that popular. But then another thing that surprised me was hearing that American Sniper was the #1 movie of 2016 (might be off a year with that). I thought there was no way that was possible. Maybe (maybe!!) the #1 drama of the year, but more than any other movie? Even all the superhero and action movies?? But sure enough it was the top movie of the year...in North America. For worldwide box office, it was #13 for the year.

Anyway, apparently there's a rumoured Shrek 5 movie that might switch things around with these franchises. Although that's only rumoured while Minions 2 is scheduled for a 2020 release.
 
I watched a documentary a while back called The Boy Mir, which covers ten years in the life of an Afghani boy after the fall of the Taliban. I discovered that it was a follow-up to an earlier movie which I just finished watching. The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan is about Mir's father and adult brother, who are all living in the caves near The Buddhas of Bamiyan, which the Taliban destroyed when the government declared that they were idols. It's shocking to see people surviving on so little in such extreme circumstances. They're basically living in holes in a cliff that are barely large enough to fit a family into. We see how little work there is available, so little money to make and therefore little resources to survive on. When an agency worker comes to bring gifts and clothing to some of the local children, they are so desperate for literally anything that they almost ambush her in order to get their hands on anything which might be of use to their families. Mir gets a pair of gloves after we see him in an earlier scene crying because of the pain he feels in his hands as he is concerned about what the frostbite will do to them. This is an important movie, one which garnered enough acclaim that a sequel was produced. But it is slow moving at time and I found it quite difficult to watch and absorb with such tough subject matter. Worthy viewing, but tough viewing.

Quite a few movies to see. Thanks PeterG.

You're welcome! Let us know once you've finished viewing all of them. :P
 
Be Somebody is a bit more interesting than one would expect from a teen romance. It's basically the story of a Justin Bieber-like pop star who is stranded in a small town and ends up spending a day and a half with a girl the same age. Some of the lines make your eyes roll to the back of your head, but not that many of them, actually. And there's plenty of nice moments in the movie and a few surprises, which is great because often cliché's abound in this kind of movie. So I was surprised to be surprised. :lol: Nobody famous is in this, but I did recognize the teen girl. Turns out I saw played the daughter of JLo in the Jennifer Lopez-Ray Liotta tv show Shades of Blue.

Trailer for Be Somebody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vG0GzV9Jk8
 
I saw it during the Seattle International Film Festival, and I loved, loved it! "Step" follows a familiar competition film projectory, but they're all really about character and most are about family.

The coach and three of the young women were doing the festival tour along with the film, and it was great to see them in person. Blessin is preternaturally poised and softly charismatic in person.
 
I saw it during the Seattle International Film Festival, and I loved, loved it! "Step" follows a familiar competition film projectory, but they're all really about character and most are about family.

The coach and three of the young women were doing the festival tour along with the film, and it was great to see them in person. Blessin is preternaturally poised and softly charismatic in person.
If Blessin is who I think she is, I think she auditioned for this season of So You Think You Can Dance. She didn't make it through, but Nigel Lythgoe invited her to bring her Step group onto the show sometime this season and from I've seen of SYTYCD he usually makes good on those invites so they might show up sometime later this season.
 
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013) was much, much better than I thought it would be. To some extent, in the back of my mind I was thinking that this was an "important film" that was necessary for me to watch. But this documentary about the female punk protest Russian group and the trial of three of it's members is so well directed and done so in just a light enough way to draw you in rather than bog you down with the big political machine within Russia that you "just know" is going to trounce these young women. Another plus is that these three women are all so smart and strong that you're drawn to them so much...and their strong backbone(s) also play a part in your not feeling overwhelmed or discouraged for them. Very glad I finally got to see this one. :kickass:
 
Film investors’ fear of the Bard is burying my Richard II, says James Ivory
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/12/james-ivory-shakespeare-film-fails-to-find-funding

It seems the director of Howard's End, The Remains of the Day and A Room With A View can't get funding to make the movie he has been trying to get off the ground. Even with the actors Tom Hiddleston and Damian Lewis saying they want to be part of the project. And with an acclaimed script by Oscar winner Chris Terrio who won an Oscar for Argo.
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A week or so after watching a movie called Cheap Thrills, I'm still kind of confused about it. Yet still entertained. Is it a morality tale...or exploitation? Can a movie be both? The movie is about a man going through a very tough time who stops by the local pub on his way home to have a drink before heading home to tell his wife some very bad news. At the pub, a guy he went to high school with spots him and they talk for a bit before he's introduced to another guy in the bar who is there with his wife. This couple is where the story takes off. They have money and they're bored. They start to dare these two guys to various things, simple stuff at first for a hundred bucks. Over the course of the night, things progress both with how much money they're offered and what they are asked to do. This movie has stuck with me, I think it's more of a piece about wealth and privilege in today's world, but I think this movie would work for skeezy people who like to see what a pair of average joes would be willing to do for more and more money. The cast doesn't have anyone famous in it, but I've seen most of them in other stuff before. David Koechner as the rich guy did a season of the Office and was in both of the Anchorman movies. He's the one I recognized the most, so he's probably been in a lot of other stuff you might recognize him from. Recommended for those who are intrigued by this premise, otherwise you probably won't feel too bad about missing it.
Trailer for Cheap Thrills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0e0PH70Nig
 
A stunt woman has been killed on the set of Deadpool 2. Her death comes exactly one month after a stuntman was killed on the set of The Walking Dead and just days after actor Tom Cruise was hurt on the set of Mission Impossible 6 while doing a stunt. The victim has just been named as Joi "SJ" Harris and it was her first time working as a stunt woman.
http://deadline.com/2017/08/deadpool-2-stunt-driver-killed-on-set-vancouver-1202148277/
 
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I usually post the other major releases for the time period of the new thread's poll. Taken me a while this time around to do so. :drama: But here it is, taken from Wikipedia's 2017 in film page. If you watch a trailer for any of these movies, I hope you will post it here for the rest of us to check out. And let us know what you think of it! :cheer:


Sep. 8th - Home Again - Romance, Comedy with Reese Witherspoon, Candice Bergen, Michael Sheen, Lake Bell, Nat Wolff

Sep. 8th - September 11th - Drama with Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg

Sep. 8th - The Good Catholic - Comedy with John C. McGinley, Danny Glover

Sep. 8th - Gun Shy - Action Antonio with Banderas, Olga Kurylenko

Sep. 15th - American Assassin - Action, Thriller with Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch

Sep. 15th - All I See Is You - Drama, Thriller with Blake Lively, Jason Clarke, Danny Huston, Wes Chatham

Sep. 15th - Mother! - Drama, Horrorr with Darren Aronofsky (director/screenplay); Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, Kristen Wiig

Sep. 15th - Brad's Status - Comedy with Mike White (director/screenplay); Ben Stiller, Michael Sheen, Luke Wilson, Jemaine Clement, Jenna Fischer

Sep. 22nd - The Lego Ninjago Movie - Animation, Action, Comedy, Martial Arts with Jackie Chan, Justin Theroux, Dave Franco, Olivia Munn, Michael Peña, Fred Armisen

Sep. 22nd - Stronger - Drama with David Gordon Green (director); Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Clancy Brown

Sep. 22nd - Battle of the Sexes - Sports, Comedy, Drama with Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Elisabeth Shue, Sarah Silverman, Alan Cumming

Sep. 22nd - Loving Vincent - Biography, Animation, Drama with Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan, Chris O'Dowd, Aidan Turner

Sep. 22nd - Victoria & Abdul - Biography, Drama with Stephen Frears (director); Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Tim Pigott-Smith

Sep. 29th - American Made - Biography, Drama, Thriller with Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Jesse Plemons

Sep. 29th - Flatliners - Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama with Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiefer Sutherland

Oct. 6th - The Mountain Between Us - Romance, Disaster with Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Dermot Mulroney

Oct. 6th - My Little Pony: The Movie - Animation, Fantasy, Musical with Kristin Chenoweth, Emily Blunt, Michael Peña, Uzo Aduba, Liev Schreiber, Taye Diggs, Sia, Zoe Saldana

Oct. 6th - The Florida Project - Drama with Willem Dafoe

Oct. 13th - The Foreigner - Action, Thriller with Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan

Oct. 13th - Marshall - Biography, Thriller with Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, James Cromwell, Sterling K. Brown

Oct. 13th - Breathe - Biographical, Drama with Andy Serkis (director); Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville

Oct. 13th - Goodbye Christopher Robin - Biographical, Drama with Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald

Oct. 20th - The Snowman - Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller with Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Toby Jones, J. K. Simmons, Chloë Sevigny

Oct. 20th - Geostorm - Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller with Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Andy García

Oct. 20th - Only the Brave - Action with Ben Hardy, Jennifer Connelly, Taylor Kitsch, Miles Teller, Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges

Oct. 20th - Boo 2! A Madea Halloween - Comedy, Horror with Tyler Perry (director/screenplay); Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely

Oct. 20th - Leatherface - Horror, Thriller with Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Finn Jones

Oct. 20th - Same Kind of Different as Me - Drama with Renée Zellweger, Jon Voight, Djimon Hounsou, Olivia Holt, Greg Kinnear

Oct. 20th - The War with Grandpa - Comedy with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken

Oct. 20th - Wonderstruck - Drama with Todd Haynes (director); Brian Selznick (screenplay); Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams

Oct. 27th - Thank You for Your Service - War, Drama with Miles Teller, Amy Schumer

Oct. 27th - Suburbicon - Crime, Comedy with George Clooney (director/screenplay); Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Grant Heslov (screenplay); Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac

Oct. 27th - Jigsaw - Horror with Mandela Van Peebles, Brittany Allen, Callum Keith Rennie, Matt Passmore

Oct. 27th - The Killing of a Sacred Deer - Horror, Thriller with Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman

Oct. 27th - Novitiate - Drama with Melissa Leo, Dianna Agron, Julianne Nicholson, Denis O'Hare

Oct. 27th - Professor Marston & the Wonder Women - Biography, Drama with Angela Robinson (director/screenplay); Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Connie Britton, Oliver Platt

Nov. 3rd - A Bad Moms Christmas - Comedy with Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Jay Hernandez, Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski

Nov. 3rd - Roman Israel, Esq. - Drama with Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo

Nov. 3rd - The Man Who Invented Christmas - Drama with Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce

Nov. 10th - The Star - Animation with Steven Yeun, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Keegan-Michael Key, Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Anderson, Gabriel Iglesias, Ving Rhames, Kris Kristofferson, Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Patricia Heaton, Tracy Morgan, Christopher Plummer

Nov. 10th - Daddy's Home 2 - Comedy with Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, John Cena, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow

Nov. 10th - LBJ - Drama with Rob Reiner (director); Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Nov. 10th - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Thriller with Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage

Nov. 10th - Paddington 2 - Family, Comedy with Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw, Imelda Staunton

Nov. 17th - Wonder - Drama with Julia Roberts, Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, Mandy Patinkin

Nov. 17th - Last Flag Flying - Comedy/Drama with Richard Linklater (director/screenplay); Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne

Nov. 22nd - Coco - Animation, Fantasy with Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Edward James Olmos

Nov. 22nd - Darkest Hour - Drama with Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn

Nov. 22nd - Molly's Game - Drama with Aaron Sorkin (director/screenplay); Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Chris O'Dowd

Nov. 22nd - Villa Capri - Action, Comedy with Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo

Nov. 22nd - Death Wish - Action with Eli Roth (director); Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dean Norris, Kimberly Elise, Mike Epps, Elisabeth Shue

Nov. 24th - Mary Magdalene - Drama with Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim

Nov. 24th - Call Me by Your Name - Drama with Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg

Dec. 1st - The Disaster Artist - Biography, Comedy with James Franco (director); Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Zac Efron, Sharon Stone, Melanie Griffith, Alison Brie, James Franco

Dec. 1st - Wonder Wheel - Crime, Drama with Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, Jim Belushi

Dec. 15th - Ferdinand - Animation, Comedy with John Cena, David Tennant, Anthony Anderson, Gabriel Iglesias, Kate McKinnon, Gina Rodriguez, Bobby Cannavale

Dec. 20th - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy with Jake Kasdan (director); Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Nick Jonas

Dec. 22nd - Pitch Perfect 3 - Musical, Comedy with Anna Kendrick, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Hailee Steinfeld, Hana Mae Lee

Dec. 22nd - Downsizing - Sci-fi, Comedy, Drama with Alexander Payne (director/screenplay); Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Sudeikis

Dec. 22nd - Bastards - Comedy with Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, J. K. Simmons, Terry Bradshaw, Ving Rhames, Retta, June Squibb, Glenn Close

Dec. 22nd - The Current War - Drama with Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland

Dec. 22nd - The Papers - Drama with Steven Spielberg (director); Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Bruce Greenwood, Jesse Plemons, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Alison Brie, David Cross, Carrie Coon

Dec. 25th - The Greatest Showman - Biography, Musical, Drama with Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Williams, Zendaya

Dec. 25th - Phantom Thread - Drama with Paul Thomas Anderson (director/screenplay); Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville
 
I want to see 'Battle of the sexes', 'Mountain between us' and many others.

I thought the next Star Wars movie was going to be released Dec 25th. Has it been postponed?
 
I thought the next Star Wars movie was going to be released Dec 25th. Has it been postponed?

Normally when I start a new thread, I post twice in a row. First with the poll options (and their trailers) and then all the other movies. This time around, the second part just came a few weeks late. So anything that's in the poll (post one in this thread) was not repeated in this part two of all the major movies coming out this year. As far as I know, the release dates for all the poll options remain the same. :)
 
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