Pervert

Proper b&w is supposedly quite expensive. This has me wondering if they considered filming it in b&w originally.

I occasionally watch some old 4:3 films (e.g Bergman DVDs) on my 4:3 CRT with the colour turned down. They look splendid that way.

I'm enjoying the style of it, but stopped after an hour. I'll carry on to see the pretties, helps with a bottle of wine tbf.

Coopers Green wrote:

Started watching The Creator last night. Gave up after 40 minutes. It's nonsensical shite.

Nice to see Simon Stalenhag's concept art in a film though. And that's twice I've seen Sturgill Simpson get the shit kicked out of him in a film. He's a dude.

That's about when I gave up. Vapid, generic shite.

I highly recommend The Creator never be watched by anyone.

I thought they were one of the stupidest moments. “The US has outlawed all artificial intelligence and dedicated itself to eradicating AI globally. Erm, except these AI suicide bombers that we suddenly thought of and decided would be a cool plot point.”

Really was a shame because it seems like he was kind of working outside of the typical Hollywood system by being on a smaller budget and crew so it probably would have been possible for him to take some chances with the story he told instead of something with the edges sanded off because it cost 3 times as much

poprock wrote:

I quite enjoyed it as a piece of B-tier sci-fi fluff. It was a gorgeously (and expensively) realised world. The plot was piss-tier though, and some of the central performances were dire.

Not defending it as a film but for 80 million it's a very good looking movie (vs the flash at 220 million for example)

I liked Monsters. Rogue One is great. The Creator definitely has a *look* but seriously check out Stalenhag's art.

The Creator lacks a decent script. Weird cack-handed parallels with both 9/11 and Vietnam were wince inducing. The world's logic made little sense in the 40 minutes that I watched it.

Watched Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle on Netflix. In the aftermath of the battle with Godzilla in the previous film, the humanoids discover that humanity appears to have survived on Earth in the form of the mysterious telepathic Houtua race. Humanity’s allies, the logical yet warrior-like Bilusaludo race realise that the spearheads of the Houtua are made of nanometal, a highly advanced autonomous form of metal comparable to Borg nanotechnology from Star Trek that they invented during a failed attempt to create Mechagodzilla. Following the nanometal to its source, they find that the remains of Mechagodzilla have spent 20,000 years evolving into a giant mechanised city that might be capable of countering Godzilla’s own 20,000 years of evolution. But by harnessing the power of nanometal, will humanity become the monsters?

Like the first film, this is entertaining nonsense where the social commentary of Godzilla is a bit compromised by the sci-fi setting (although the social commentary and sci-fi ideas are admittedly a slight step up from the first one). Whereas the first film felt like a standalone film until the sequel hook, this one never really feels like its own thing and is very much the middle part of a serialised story. Unlike the first film, there’s an odd feeling of the humanoids having all their tools handed to them on a plate with this one, which undercuts the drama of the film’s core battle sequences with Godzilla. Some of the new bits of design aren’t great and the subtitle translation seems a bit worse than the first film in places.

The first one barely scraped four stars for me but this one is more at the top end of three stars for me. I would definitely say don’t watch any of these unless you’re interested in committing to the entire trilogy as they clearly aren’t designed to work particularly well as standalones. They’re also more harmless fun rather than genuinely good films like Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One.

jdanielp wrote:

Spoiler:

...happily sits back as he works in his self-driving car on mountain roads later on.

You could argue the car ran local software and wasn’t connected to the net. Maybe.

Sonic 2: what the hell is up with that extended wedding sequence.

Cant wait for Sonic 3 extended honey moon sequence.

b0r1s wrote:

Still haven’t seen this but what an absolute beast Cruise is. Absolutely crazy and I bet McQuarrie was bricking it every second.

this youtube video is for more interesting and exciting than the film, just watch this a couple of times and save yourself 2 hours.

Whenever Sonic is off screen, all the other characters should be asking, "where's Sonic?"