I drive three hours to see Dunkirk on 15 perf 70mm IMAX.
That's presentation though.
There's no reason in 2021 to use 70mm for acquisition. None. The right DP can do it with digital.
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The Suicide Squad |OT| The Starro of The Show (HBO Max/Theaters August 5th)
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I drive three hours to see Dunkirk on 15 perf 70mm IMAX.
That's presentation though.
There's no reason in 2021 to use 70mm for acquisition. None. The right DP can do it with digital.
This was pretty fuckin good! I enjoyed how fuckin dour it was through out despite all the wild good times going down.
Very little stupid decision garbage to move the plot. I felt more for Staro than I did many MCU villains which was hilarious to consider.
Gunn just knows whats up. I hope the next guardians is great and they hand him 2 more SS movies.
8.5/10
Very little stupid decision garbage to move the plot. I felt more for Staro than I did many MCU villains which was hilarious to consider.
Gunn just knows whats up. I hope the next guardians is great and they hand him 2 more SS movies.
8.5/10
Yes, yes and yes :)
As someone who had rats for years, this whole character made me smile a lot during the entire movie.
There's a tangible thing that digital can't reproduce.
It's hard to fully describe though
It depends a lot on nearby hosts. If it takes over Green Lantern or Superman, for example, the Justice League is kinda screwed. Of course, given its size, there's a pretty good chance it isn't the original one either.
I loved this movie, but I do admittedly think that pre-pandemic it would've hit me a lot different and less positive. The tone is coming from a place that makes a lot more sense to me now, in my latest kinda fuck-all, doomer-ass mentality that I've started to let sink in.
This was... a movie, I guess? I laughted once or twice, but the general tone of the film was all over the place, and not even close of what I expected of James Gunn.
This was supposed to be an All-Star roster of DC Comics' B-plot villains misfits, which was well established after the death of the 'decoy' team, but it then later changed gears to become... an R-Rated Fast and Furious spinoff movie with weird superhumans? Bloodsport bacame The Rock, John Cena was Jason Statham, and everybody else was whoever the now "anti-hero plot" needed them to be. Weirdly enough, Harley Quinn also was arround being the same aimless character she has been for at least 5 movies.
Funny enough, this is now the second Suicide Squad movie that ended up NOT being what the trailers hinted at.
This was supposed to be an All-Star roster of DC Comics' B-plot villains misfits, which was well established after the death of the 'decoy' team, but it then later changed gears to become... an R-Rated Fast and Furious spinoff movie with weird superhumans? Bloodsport bacame The Rock, John Cena was Jason Statham, and everybody else was whoever the now "anti-hero plot" needed them to be. Weirdly enough, Harley Quinn also was arround being the same aimless character she has been for at least 5 movies.
Funny enough, this is now the second Suicide Squad movie that ended up NOT being what the trailers hinted at.
That comparison definitely tracks considering Peacemaker was the prototypical version of The Comedian.
Indeed, Ive had many pet rats over the years so i loved Sebastian so much. Ratcatcher2 needs her own movie!
She's uh been in 3
And the last two played off the disastrous first and gave her an aim so uh yeah
I dunno, it seemed pretty easy to avoid becoming a host. Polka Dot man was just swatting starfish away with his hands, Harley just blocked her face with her arm... No one in the League would get infected when they have heat vision, super speed, wear masks etc.
Have you watched the resdemo videos?
The language you use fits placebo effect.
WW84 being the only really bad one recently which is surprising considering WW was arguably the first really good one
Feels like a missed opportunity that no members of the squad or other superhumans got controlled by Starro.
sort of agreed, though the movie is more of a gut punch by having a character turn on everyone else completely by choice.
sidenote, starring is literally a red, (slight flecks of) white and blue star brought to earth by Americans while destroying a Latin American country. The metaphor here is just, damn
MoS >>>>>>>>>>>>>> WW.
WW is so overrated imho, Gal Gadot is so so bad at acting and it's not even funny.
100%. I don't understand the love for WW.
MOS, while heavily criticized, at least had a different take, Snyder tried to do for Superman what Nolan did for Batman. People can argue at his execution but that's the context of the films release.
Watched it tonight and thought it was fantastic, delivered in all the ways I expected Gunn to. Occasionally falls into the blueprint trappings most super hero films do, but for most part circumnavigates gaudiness in favour of colour, character, authenticity, and a self aware kitsch. Big, bright characters and personalities shepherd the script through absurd, hilarious scenarios that unravel in order to serve momentum to the narrative, much of which are evocative of true comic book pulp. More importantly though Gunn elevates the silliness and absurdity with strong delivery of a humane message and genuinely important social and political commentary.
It's not some ground breaking masterpiece or genius nuance, but it's carefully constructed with all the love, sense, and intelligence you want from the best films within this genre.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is, by a significant margin, my favourite film in the MCU. And this is marked similarly for DC's modern output.
It's not some ground breaking masterpiece or genius nuance, but it's carefully constructed with all the love, sense, and intelligence you want from the best films within this genre.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is, by a significant margin, my favourite film in the MCU. And this is marked similarly for DC's modern output.
I think one of my earlier surprises in this movie was
Captain Boomerang dying early. I'm not particularly familiar with DC lore, but it was my impression that he was one of the fan favorite characters of the original movie, and I figured he'd have some plot armor after looking at which characters they deemed important enough to put into the Suicide Squad video game. I guess they needed one early death on the recurring character side to hammer home the fact that anyone can die though, and Harley Quinn was definitely not gonna be that.
Loved the movie but mostly it was so fun finally going to a "packed" (within restrictions) theatre after one year. At the ending with starro as the mother just everybody bursting out laughing and cheering.
The movie ending battle was so good, one of my favorite from superhero movies.
Think the movie worked better than GotG2
The movie ending battle was so good, one of my favorite from superhero movies.
Think the movie worked better than GotG2
The sequel did it better.
I may be biased because the scene from the first one is based on a scene from the comics, which they completely botch and it ruins Boomerang's character.
Boomer does talk somebody else into trying to run, but he knows full well it might be real. He coldly uses the other guy as a guinea pig, not giving a shit what happens to him. Movie Boomer, on the other hand, just comes off as a dumbass.
I never watched Birds of Prey so I might've missed context, though during the first half of that action scene I remember telling myself "this isn't quite how I imagined Harley Quinn to be like in action scenes".
Then during the second half I told myself "James Gunn probably really wants to do another Lollipop Chainsaw"
You should watch Birds of Prey.
And I should buy Lollipop Chainsaw on eBay. (great avatar, btw)
Polka-Dot Man has really grown on me, and his death presented as a lark soured the movie for me. I know that he's always intended as a joke character, but his death just feels mean-spirited to me. It reminds me of a certain someone's death in Deadpool 2.
It's a rough game in quite a few respects but I've built a delayed appreciation to it after acquainting myself with Gunn's oeuvre. Both his style and creative ensemble is felt all over the game. (Also thanks!)
They are getting a lot of use this year, had multiple tracks in Fear Street.
This was a mass improvement over the first, but really just "okay"
James Gunn or the cast can't make most of those characters worth caring about. Not a DC fan though.
James Gunn or the cast can't make most of those characters worth caring about. Not a DC fan though.
WW was a waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more fun watch Imo and outside of the final boss battle I enjoyed the various battles more. Also, loved that it was a period piece
I like MoS a lot more than most people, but WW is a better movie. Less ambitious, but also nails things in places where MoS whiffed.
This movie really does feel like the one studio note Warner handed down was probably "Harley Quinn has to survive" and he was allowed to do whatever else he wanted
That's my only real complaint about the movie, I really wanted him to live. With him dying none of the full tilt joke characters make it. Ratcatcher historically feels like a joke character but compared to Polka Dot Man she's on another level.
I might have been more ok with it if it'd been more 'heroic' but it's kind of silly that neither her nor Bloodsport saw the attack coming.
Considering his powers if there's a sequel I wouldn't be surprised at him being resurrected.
I might have been more ok with it if it'd been more 'heroic' but it's kind of silly that neither her nor Bloodsport saw the attack coming.
Considering his powers if there's a sequel I wouldn't be surprised at him being resurrected.
Surprisingly liked it a lot. I love the over the top gore. This is much more a James Gunn movie than those watered-down GotG movies. They also made the giant monster work, that's pretty rare in these kind of movies.
Shame about the blink-and-you-miss-it Lloyd Kaufman cameo, I wonder if they cut it down to what isn't even half a second. At least he's technically still in it I suppose.
Shame about the blink-and-you-miss-it Lloyd Kaufman cameo, I wonder if they cut it down to what isn't even half a second. At least he's technically still in it I suppose.
Yeah, sadly I didn't like it even though I was really excited to watch it.
It's not hype when you've seen it with your own eyes. No digital camera can replicate that shallow depth of field that IMAX can produce at that size. Your point is also moot since it doesn't matter what resolution the digital image was captured in since it'll still only be projected digitally in 4k at most. A true film projection of 70mm IMAX is still leagues ahead of what you'll see by any digital presentation.