Let's Talk Movies #36 - 2020 - Yep it is a new decade

Buzz said:
Already have my tickets for Thunderbolts*! :cheer2:
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That's cool that you're excited that you've purchased your ticket and all, but what we really going to want to know is which Thunderbolts* Popcorn Bucket did you get to enjoy. 🍿 :watch:

Also, if someone here actually gets the popcorn mask (Cinemark) or the popcorn limousine (AMC), we're going to need to see a selfie. 😆 😉
 
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Popcorn unfortunately upsets my stomach or else the limousine bucket would be nice!
 
Saw until dawn and sinners for a second time last week. Going to see the accountant 2, the legend of ochi and thunderbolts this week
 
I keep telling my husband to buy our Thunderbolt* tickets (that's his job) but he is resisting for some reason.
 
Tickets for Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning are on sale now! I’ll be seeing it first thing that Thursday afternoon. 😁

Paramount just posted this video of how they film Tom Cruise running. 🤯
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MacMadame said:
I keep telling my husband to buy our Thunderbolt* tickets (that's his job) but he is resisting for some reason.
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Maybe he’s worried about this potentially being another bummer for Marvel. It’s why I’m still hesitant to buy tickets for it this weekend. Especially when I still want to see Sinners, Warfare, and The Accountant 2.

The murmurs are that 2025 is probably do or die for Marvel. 😬
 
vgerdes said:
Wow. That doesn't even look like Dwayne Johnson. At all. If I didn't know it was him I would never have guessed.
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I’m wondering if this is the film that will win Hair & Makeup. If so, there’s a history at the Oscars of MANY Best Hair & Makeup & Best Actor winning combos. 🤔 😉
 
Last weekend I saw The King of Kings. My overall rating: 8.4/10. If you're looking for film to watch for Holy Week that it isn't a miniseries (The Bible, Jesus of Nazareth), that's 376,492 hours long (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, The Passion of the Christ), and more appropriate for kids, I recommend this film.

This film was inspired by Charles Dickens' novel The Life of Our Lord.

The Good: The animation and story are pretty good and I think Angel Studios is getting the memo that it's worth the extra $$$$ to get a film that has a worthy production, script, and cast (Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, Mark Hamill, Pierce Brosnan, Roman Griffin Davis, Forest Whitaker, Ben Kingsley, and Oscar Isaac).

The Bad: At the end of the film, there's a roughly five minute countdown clock notifying of a "special feature". Is it behind the scenes stuff? An interview or message from some of the cast? NOPE, it's video clips of cute kids saying how much they liked the film and a QR code pops up for a link to donate so that "more people can experience this film". This film has made almost $60 million so far. I thought this was bad taste for Angel Studios. :cautious:
 
I’m going to see Thunderbolts tomorrow and is deliberately staying away from reviews etc. I don’t want to be more spoiled than I am already. LOL
 
Thunderbolts* = This movie is sooooo GOOD!!! The mental health avengers. :rofl: There are also two post credit scenes so stick around! 9/10
 
Buzz said:
Thunderbolts* = This movie is sooooo GOOD!!! The mental health avengers. :rofl: There are also two post credit scenes so stick around! 9/10
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I loved it so much! The trailers make it seem like a fun time with lots of action. There is that, but there is also some deeper stuff about loneliness, power, what makes people good and bad. And parts were really touching. I actually teared up a few times.
 
Watched Sinners as a matinee this afternoon. This film absolutely needs to make the Oscars Best Picture nomination list plus at least some technical nominations for Costumes, Production Design, Visual Effects, Score, and Casting.

My overall rating: 9.0/10. This is definitely one of the best movies of 2025. The film does have a bit of gore and explicit scenes/dialogue. You will want to stay for the credits.

The production design and costumes are superb (even though I don’t think they will be considered better than Wicked: For Good). I also think that the music and score (Ludwig Göranson, who won Oscars for Black Panther and Oppenheimer) are fantastic.

At first, I thought that it would be too much to include vampires into a story that seemed to already be weaving the blues music, sharecropper life, spiritual issues, and race relations in the 1930s U.S. fairly well. But it ended up that the reality of what was specifically needed to deal with the vampires actually tied everything together. 👍
 
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Box Office Mojo - U.S. Domestic Box Office: Weekend 18.

Hmm. I’m wondering if Thunderbolts* ($162M so far globally) is going to end up doing better for Marvel than Captain America: Brave New World ($415M). 🤔

Sinners is still holding up fairly well each week. It hasn’t been dropping that much.

Notable opening next week: Fight or Flight, Juliet & Romeo, Shadow Force, and Nonnas (Netflix).

Overall, it looks like a good time to catch up before we get flooded again with 🤩 in late May - early June. I still need to see Warfare, Thunderbolts*, and The Accountant 2.
 
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Just have to say that it should be enshrined in every contract Sebastian Stan signs that he is never again to shave off his hair!!!
 
ilovepaydays said:
What we want to know is @misskarne getting excited about Brad Pitt in a F1 film? Or not because……it’s Brad Pitt in a F1 film? 🤔 🏎️ 🏁 😝
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Ha! I am going to go see it for the visuals on the big screen - I expect that, like Top Gun, those will look spectacular - and to see how many real life driver cameos there are, who got a speaking role, and who tried to hide from the cameras.

My feeling is that this movie is going to suffer a bit of an identity crisis and therefore suffer altogether. It does seem like certain elements - the use of particularly striking tracks, Crofty's commentary etc - are designed for people like me, to draw us in. But the plot looks straight-up awful and corny, and the fact that the only female character shown so far seems to exist just as a love interest for Brad Pitt is particularly gross given she's supposed to be an engineer in the team and we just got our first female race engineer this year.
 
misskarne said:
Ha! I am going to go see it for the visuals on the big screen - I expect that, like Top Gun, those will look spectacular - and to see how many real life driver cameos there are, who got a speaking role, and who tried to hide from the cameras.

My feeling is that this movie is going to suffer a bit of an identity crisis and therefore suffer altogether. It does seem like certain elements - the use of particularly striking tracks, Crofty's commentary etc - are designed for people like me, to draw us in. But the plot looks straight-up awful and corny, and the fact that the only female character shown so far seems to exist just as a love interest for Brad Pitt is particularly gross given she's supposed to be an engineer in the team and we just got our first female race engineer year.
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It’s interesting that you brought up Top Gun (the sequel was also directed by Kosinski). One of my apparently controversial movie opinions that’s gotten some people hysterical at me is that I was relieved that they didn’t bring back Kelly McGinnis (“Charlie”) for the sequel. I thought that Maverick had realistic chemistry with Penny (Jennifer Connelly) and his “feelings” with Charlie weren’t believable - at all.

And I know many U.S. military fighter pilots and the whole “competitive” plot because Maverick and Iceman was ridiculous. (RIP Val Kilmer 😔)
 
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