Well we did just get Skull Island and have the sequel to Godzilla to look forward to!

I gotta hold out hope! Especially since I already bought an IMAX ticket…

I’ve gotten to see a few. It’s always great when I get the chance:

• Gojira
• Back to the Future
• Blade Runner
• Ghostbusters
• Labyrinth
• West Side Story

There’s probably a few I’m forgetting. But my dream theatrical experience is to see the original 3D presentation of Creature From the Black Lagoon. If I ever catch wind of them doing it again I will go out of my way to drive out to wherever it may be.

Pacific Rim (2013)

A fun film. Gorgeous visuals and great fight scenes. It gets bogged down a bit by the needlessly convoluted drift concept and the decision to set the film 12 years into the Kaiju war. But the main plot is decent and the character writing is solid. I wonder if del Toro had hoped they could turn the first 12 years into an animated series. It would certainly lend itself to that. In any case, I hope the sequel can live up to the visuals and character moments from the first.

Added trailers for:
Fahrenheit 451
The Titan
Nightflyers

DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

My opinion is that the joke is funny, not that the film is bad. I don’t have an opinion of the film, though I do think the twelve year shoot is inherently pretentious if it isn’t good.

That’s a dumb thing to think. If it isn’t good it’s not pretension, it’s just a failed experiment.

Yeah. Whereas A Wrinkle in Time was both pretentious and a failed experiment. 😉

Boy(ʰᵒᵒᵈ), this conversation sure feels like it’s gone on for 12 years.

LexX said:

The sequels aren’t better, either. In Europe the covers are different at this point at least.

Handman said:

Batman - Watching Spider-Man got me in the mood to watch another superhero movie with Michael Keaton.

Check out Birdman if you haven’t, and while not a super hero film, I highly recommend The Founder.

DominicCobb said:

ChainsawAsh said:

DominicCobb said:

The Land Before Time (1988) - Would have been a great movie if the dinosaurs didn’t talk. C+ > >
Dom is dead to me as well. And this one isn’t nostalgia, I’ve watched it in the last year. Still one of the best Don Bluth films.

I didn’t even say it was bad.

You gave it the same score as A Wrinkle in Time.

DominicCobb said:

The Land Before Time (1988) - Would have been a great movie if the dinosaurs didn’t talk. C+

We can’t be friends.

SilverWook said:

I did a double take because I thought I saw Sebastian Shaw in the cast list. 😛

How deep does this rabbit hole go?

lovelikewinter said:

Why do people give a crap about Snoke?

Because he destroyed Luke’s Jedi Academy by seducing Ben Solo to the Dark Side? How is that not interesting?

Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War - Official Trailer

Dek Rollins said:

The reboot is much worse. At least I’m able to enjoy II, despite how dumb it is.

Hard agree on all points.

DominicCobb said:

“Everything” is a little hyperbolic

Not really. The script was horrible. The story was a jumbled mess and the characters are hollow shells of their original novel counterparts. The dialog is some of the worst I’ve heard in years. The performances were near universally awful. The only decent one was by Chris Pine and he’s barely in the film. The special effects are terrible, the designs are cartoonish and the compositing is some of the worst I’ve ever seen in a major motion picture. The costumes were laughably bad, they and this film look like a TV special.

I have never walked out on a film before but I almost did halfway through this. The only reason I didn’t was that my theater won’t refund you if you’ve watched more than a half hour.

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Star Wars: Solo
Prospect
Perfect
Mute

Given the recent proliferation of Scifi television series I’ve added a new section dedicated to it.

Annihilation (2018)

Beautiful and unsettling. Great Science Fiction, it’s a shame how this film was dumped by the studio.

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Awful and confounding. It’s amazing that this had a 100 million dollar budget. It doesn’t look it at all. Everything about this film was a misfire.

Yeah, I can’t stand four point ratings. With five points, it can be broken down as:

1. Hated
2. Disliked
3. Liked/Decent
4. Really liked
5. Loved

With four points there’s no middle ground and so I can’t parse them properly.

Has the Darth Vader series reverted to a Dark Times setting? If so I might give that a go. The first Darth Vader run made me quit the entire modern Marvel line completely:

It’s been three years now and I’m just barely dipping my toes back in after that. So far I’m just sticking to the main ongoing series and have been pleasantly surprised with how well that’s course corrected after the awful start that line had as well.

What drew me back in though was the Poe Dameron series. What I’ve seen of that has been pretty solid.

ZkinandBonez said:

So in the last few weeks I’ve been watching the Clone Wars series somewhat out of order. I’ve pretty much just watched the “essential” episodes (Mortis, Maul, Ashoka’s trial, etc.), and I’m currently just watching the rest in whatever order I feel like at the moment.

Is it possible to do this with Rebels?

No. Rebels is structured linearly and as such for a first time viewing should be watched in order and in full.