afgavinstan wrote:Keep seeing ads for Hotel Artemis and its making me want to see it. Charlie Day & Dave Bautista & the fucking Blum?? I'm there!
(this is where I get told its already been panned, or the director is a nonce or something)
tin_robot wrote:I saw Incredibles 2 yesterday and enjoyed it. It suffers by virtue of being a sequel - many of the ideas from the first are simply tweaked and represented - and it still has a slightly weird sub-text about exceptionalism which is muddied even further here. But... I thought it was a lot of fun, was frequently amusing, and as visually stunning as its predecessor. Some of the set pieces are superb. There are no surprises - the villain is obvious to anyone who has ever seen a movie before, and it arguably follows an all too familiar structure - but that's almost inevitable in what is ultimately a kids movie. So, yeah, not the eye opening, ground breaking surprise that the first one represented, but significantly better than I feared it would be, and my favourite super hero movie of the year so far. (I appreciate that's faint praise to some.)
I_R wrote:Even at the time I thought it was a poor story carried by great artwork. My hopes aren't high.
JRPC wrote:Surely he's too old now and too TV to land that kind of gig?Stopharage wrote:
tin_robot wrote:That's fair, I think. Though there's stuff in Rogue Trooper that could make for a great movie - the friends reduced to AI chips in your weaponry is an idea that holds more potential than I think the comic ever even capitalised on. Moon era Jones might have been able to make the most of that. Mute era Jones on the other hand seems more likely to run with the elements in Rogue designed to appeal primarily to teenage boys, which might not fly so well. (I say that as seemingly the only man on Earth who thought Mute was not completely terrible.) I reckon he's capable of nailing those visuals though.Even at the time I thought it was a poor story carried by great artwork. My hopes aren't high.
Tempy wrote:JRPC wrote:Surely he's too old now and too TV to land that kind of gig?Stopharage wrote:
Turns out it was just a fan film, authorised by ND tho'
davyK wrote:His AI buddies were backback, helmet and rifle? It's been a long time. I stopped reading 2000AD in '82-3 at around prog 300 or so I think. The RT stories don't stick in my mind - just the idea. The sense of loneliness of the series is what struck me more than anything.tin_robot wrote:That's fair, I think. Though there's stuff in Rogue Trooper that could make for a great movie - the friends reduced to AI chips in your weaponry is an idea that holds more potential than I think the comic ever even capitalised on. Moon era Jones might have been able to make the most of that. Mute era Jones on the other hand seems more likely to run with the elements in Rogue designed to appeal primarily to teenage boys, which might not fly so well. (I say that as seemingly the only man on Earth who thought Mute was not completely terrible.) I reckon he's capable of nailing those visuals though.Even at the time I thought it was a poor story carried by great artwork. My hopes aren't high.
ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chinas-first-100m-film-pulled-cinemas-disastrous-opening-weekend-1127224
Ouch. Where's Cinty with the insight when you need him.
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Tempy wrote:I really want to see that.
pantyfire wrote:Ron Smith. I fucking hate his Botox lipped Dredd. It was awful.
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