I watched What We Do in the Shadows this week on the back of Waititi's Thor.  Enjoyed it.  Still think Wilderpeople is his best work though.

Got halfway through Stalin tonight too, seems tight.

I went back to Bram Stoker’s Dracula over a few nights this week. It’s really only tolerable in small doses. Worse than I’d remembered, it’s laughable.

I assume that people on IMDb giving it more than 3/10 are trolls. Or morons.

Loved his entrance to the finale though.

Yup. Got a guffaw from me.

Liveinadive wrote:

Ragnarok is Marvel laughing at themselves I think, which was very much needed. There has been funny Marvel movies before but this one was just silly

They should go all in on the next one and get Joel Schumacher in to direct. Massive hulk nipples and a musical number.

Like Titanic?

I might watch Batman & Robin at some point then, always avoided it.  Quite a few people thought Forever was good, and I hated that, two fairly decent villains aside.  Plus surely Clooney is a decent Bruce Wayne.

I'd rather watch Karate Kid III than Karate Kid II.  Terrible tends to be far more entertaining than poor

I'll blame Live anyway.

Beers are a necessity.

I would rather watch B&R than Batsoup, now we have the Nolan trilogy there isn't the annoyance that B&R is a wasted opportunity either.
It is Batman Forever turned up to 11 though.

Watched Mute tonight. 

It's certainly not good, but I wouldn't say a total car crash. 

There are some interesting ideas and visuals. An Amish guy in a future world is a fun idea, but not enough is done with it. I generally bought into neo-Berlin, despite being a blatant Blade Runner pastiche. Maybe if BR2 hadn't just come out it would have felt a little fresher?

The main guy is dull but an imposing figure. Almost Statham-like in silhouette and I could easily imagine that if it were the big man himself, going around kicking people instead of just sort of standing there and looking morose, it would have been a totally serviceable one if his.

The two surgeons are the most interesting things going on here, with the blonde one especially making for a suitably creepy brand of psychopath. Their relationship and unsettling rapport is the best thing about the film.  

Think I read that it started off as a Lock Stock style gangster thing without the futuristic stuff. It does feel like that and I'd say to be fair to Jones its better than anything I've ever seen of Richies. 

It's really not good. It's quite dull and tonally all over the place, but to put it in a Netflix perspective, I'd place it way above the god-awful Bright and Cloverfield 3 for sure.

Maybe a 5/10?

By the by, this is precisely what you lot keep asking for isn't it? Small "interesting" movies by directors with a singular vision "like they used to make" before Marvel ruined everything. 

Well here it is - enjoy!

regmcfly wrote:

Without even considering it as a superhero movie, I do think

Spoiler:

piss off ghost

may be the best joke in cinema last year and is pure Waititi (pure west gif here pls)

Agreed, laughed so much I spat drink over myself.

I thought Ragnarok was the best comedy action I’ve seen at the cinema in years. I’m very pickey when it comes to comedy, tend to find most modern “comedies” raise one or two chuckles from me at best but this had me laughing from the opening scene right through to the final post credits sequence. Loved it

Kow wrote:

You don't like this rancid cake? Have some dogshit. You don't like it? Well I guess the rancid cake is fantastic after all. Reminds me of American politics.

I wonder if it could be that simply belonging to a particular genre or the specific circumstances around how a film came to be, doesn't necessarily tell you if it's any good or not? 

Perhaps we should go so far as to try judging them on their own individual merits rather than painting them all with one broad poo-covered brush?


No, that's just silly talk.

Kow wrote:

Well you seem to be the one doing that so fire away.

I'm doing what?

Ah.

I think I was actually attempting a play on the way comic book movies are thought about here where they're lumped into a single category and one bad example is used to judge them all. 

It was very clever.

Maybe you’ve accidentally watched the same one several times?