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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
That was such a fun watch
And so clever in the way it Easter eggs the game.
The movie was fine, but damn, all i could see was that they tried to be a marvel movie so bad. People love quips, everyone needs to have quips. Has anyone said: thank god he’s on our side yet? Shit that’s brilliant, put that in.
I don’t disagree that it was a very quippy movie, but I’m not sure it’s a bad thing? I feel like tables which have a consistent, dramatic tone throughout a campaign are much more the exception than the rule (and often populated by professional creatives). In my experience, most campaigns wind up being occasional islands of drama surrounded by a nonstop stream of attempts (of varying quality) to make each other laugh. Sometimes, you can even hold the drama. Idk, like I said, I understand why it would annoy you, given the wider movie landscape, but I also feel like it was authentic to an “average” game of a 5e DnD, and therefore it didn’t bother me.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the more earnest takes on epic fantasy that have been set in the Forgotten Realms / DnD, but I also get that coming out treating DnD as Very Serious Business ™ was going to be a pretty tough sell.
Dredd
That movie was killed by poor marketing that played up nothing but the 3D aspect of it. They even named it in the trailers as Dredd 3D.
All they had to do is air the first 30 seconds of the movie as a trailer and it would have been off to the races…
Edge of Tomorrow didn’t do great when it was in theatres but turned into something of a ‘cult classic’ years later. I didn’t know what to expect going in but enjoyed it quite a bit.
Such a horrible title for a decent movie. Then they tried to rename it for home video and just made it worse! It’s like they hired the team that names Microsoft products.
The original name was live, die, repeat. And i think it goes way harder.
Other way around. The theatrical release was “Edge of Tomorrow” with “Live, die, repeat” as the tagline. The tagline was more recognizable than the title, so the titled the home release after the tagline. The sequel, if it ever makes it out of development hell, is just going straight for the home release title as “Live Die Repeat and Repeat.”
The original was called All You Need Is Kill, which also happens to be what the new animated movie is called. I always liked the weird name, but I can definitely understand needing to change it for a wider english-speakong audience.
I have a problem with that movie: a read the book before seeing it. In the book the story is about a 20ish y.o. soldier, Vrataski is a teen and the ending is completely different.
They’re actually, finally working on a sequel!
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Huge loss in cinema, big win when it get out in DVD. It make so little money that universal changed how they write movies after that
“He punched the highlights out of her hair!”
It was kind of the last in a long line of Universal movies that bombed at the box office and then went on to become cult classics after home video release.
My four favorites, in roughly five year increments:
Tremors Mallrats Josie and the Pussycats Scott Pilgrim vs the World
I am so, so glad that it has found cult classic status. It’s one of my absolute favourite films.
Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece.
i thought that of the first one too. for that matter, i also loved 1980s dune and don’t care who knows it
Yeah I like the original Dune very much too. But it’s not a masterpiece. Just an underrated flick full of great actors.
But I will say this: even if you think 1984 Dune was meh, go watch Villeneuve’s version with the most unconvincing Paul Atreides in the history of unconvincing actors (Timothy Chalamet), the appalling Lady Jessica with zero expressions and zero acting skills (Rebecca Ferguson), and Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto who manages the incredible feat of being as shit in Dune as he was in Star Wars.
Then watch David Lynch’s again: you’ll enjoy it all the more.
yea, i saw the villenuve dune and wasn’t nearly as impressed as i was with 2049. aside from your points that i agree with, jason momoa turns every character into a goofy knucklehead, which is expected, but i wasn’t expecting to be let down by josh brolin who was awesome as cable and agent K. maybe i was just spoilt by patrick stewart’s gurney halleck
@U7826391786239 @movies I actually liked the movie, but you have a point with Patrick Stewart.
i didn’t mean to imply it was bad, just had some missteps i think. it’s definitely leagues better than the sci fi channel miniseries whose “selling point” was william hurt as duke leto, who dies right away
John Carter didn’t deserve the hate it got. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it got done dirty.
One of the biggest issues was possibly dropping the “of Mars” from the title.
Kubo And The Two Strings. It’s legitimately beautiful, well done, tells a heart wrenching story, and the owner of the studio does it for the art, not to make money.
Treasure Planet
Idiocracy
The Star Wars Solo movie. They barely marketed for it, iirc, which is a shame, because I thought it was pretty good! And it set up stories that I’ll be bummed we don’t get to see play out. Plus Donald Glover as Lando was beautiful casting
I think the problem with Solo is that it was released just a few months after The Last Jedi. People were possibly Star Wars fatigued by this point. (Just speculation)
Disney were releasing one film a year, Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One (2016) and The Last Jedi (2017). Each film was released in December of their respective years, including Rise of Skywalker which came out in 2019. Why release Solo in March?
Considering the drastic reshoots and production issues to get the film done, I would’ve thought aligning the film to December would’ve of given production more time to breathe. PS I would love to see more of the footage shot by Lord & Miller, but just like the Rogue One reshoots, that’s locked in the Disney vault, never to be seen.
PS - I really like Solo as a movie. It’s a lot of fun and I own it on 4K!
I avoided it for a long time, finally watched it, and loved it. Why do I ever listen to anyone else?
Naaah, hard disagree. I saw it some time ago finally, it was bad. Not as terrible as the latest trilogy, mind you, but not much better either.
Yeah, I know a lot of people didn’t like it. I thought the sequel trilogy wasn’t very good, especially the third. I think it suffered a lot from changing directors. I would have liked to see a trilogy wholly directed by Rian Johnson
I found the other person who liked the Solo movie besides me!
There are
dozensones of us!
My kid and I argue about this. He hates it, but I think you gotta come at it like Han is telling the story. Not my favorite SW movie, but way better than a lot of the other filler we got. Its a fun movie told by an outrageous liar.
That movie was terrible.
For Disney star wars movie standards, it was indeed good. But so pointless. Hey anyone wanna know why his name is solo?
No?
Alright, here we go.
i agree that Disney Star Wars Movie standards are really low, thing is so were/are Lucasfilsm, or are you just pretending the prequels don’t exist.
I don’t agree that Solo was better than any of the Star Wars since Episode One.
Even by Disney and Lucasfilm Star Wars standards Solo was a really shitty movie.
Event Horizon
Big Trouble in Little China. Was expected to be the smash hit of 1986, but poor marketing killed it. Perhaps it was also a decade or three ahead of its time.
Watched it very recently, the whole concept of Kurt Russell’s character was so fucking funny.
Spoilers
He’s just some random white dude somehow blundering into this mess, running around and being mostly useless. Lost my shit when he shot the roof in the final battle and dropped unconscious from falling debris.
Evolution. The David Duchovny one
Did that flop? Think it did ok here in the UK.
IIRC it did “okay” here too but had a bloated budget and unrealistic expectations because of all the big names involved.
I recently watched an analysis of “2010 The Year We Make Contact” and I have to agree with the premise that this is actually an interesting movie. It’s got a stellar cast that put in good performances.
I also love the retro futurism vibe with CRTs and Apple IIc’s. This has to be a conscious choice to make the audience relate more to the situation by bringing in some current day tech. The future feels less far off, and less sterile.
Its sin is in trying to unravel and ground some of the mystery of 2001. But the HAL of this film feels a lot more like the creepy AI of today, and less like magic.
Alita battle angel!!
Yeah, that movie definitely deserves a sequel
