Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)

Hot Chocolate

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Red One hilariously took some of what Violent Night brought forth and did it better, Red One literally set up a lot of interesting stuff that will never get wrapped up.
 

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Joker: Follie a Deux- This is what all the fuss was about? The only real problem with the movie is that it doesn’t need to exist, the first one was perfectly self contained. That’s it.

The character arc makes total sense, the fantasy/musical parts were integrated well and the performances were excellent. It’s a perfectly good movie.

What the hell were people expecting? Some sort of epic redemption for the character where he somehow “wins”? I expect the kind of reaction it got from the hardcore incel fans who completely missed the point of the first one. How anyone who is even remotely objective and not completely brain dead could hate this as much as everyone said they did is beyond me.

Is everybody just retarded now? I can understand people not enjoying the musical numbers and it not living up to the hype but the backlash and outright dismissal that this got is ridiculous.

It’s worth watching.
 

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Joker: Follie a Deux- This is what all the fuss was about? The only real problem with the movie is that it doesn’t need to exist, the first one was perfectly self contained. That’s it.

The character arc makes total sense, the fantasy/musical parts were integrated well and the performances were excellent. It’s a perfectly good movie.

What the hell were people expecting? Some sort of epic redemption for the character where he somehow “wins”? I expect the kind of reaction it got from the hardcore incel fans who completely missed the point of the first one. How anyone who is even remotely objective and not completely brain dead could hate this as much as everyone said they did is beyond me.

Is everybody just retarded now? I can understand people not enjoying the musical numbers and it not living up to the hype but the backlash and outright dismissal that this got is ridiculous.

It’s worth watching.
Just watched it. It's fine, defintely not a musical. Probably one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. 100% worth watching
 

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The Hard Way - 1991 buddy cop film from director John Badham (Stakeout / Saturday Night Fever), starring James Woods and Michael J. Fox.
Fox plays a Hollywood A-Lister known for doing family friendly action films who wants to pivot his career toward something with a harder edge. After hearing about up-coming project that Mel Gibson is fancied for, Fox decides he wants to go method actor and spend time with Woods veteran get the scum-bags at all costs NYPD cop.
What follows is an entertaining, but by-the-numbers, fish-out of water tale, with Fox way out of his comfort zone on the mean streets of early 90s New York, while Woods tries anything and everything to get rid of Fox so that he can bag a serial killer who's on the loose.
The two leads have a really good chemistry, and there's a great supporting cast - I just wish there was a bit more screen time for Stephen Lang's lunatic bad guy. Overall it's well worth watching if you've not seen it before and like the genre, but the, relatively, contemporary Running Scared, and the much later, The Other Guys, do the buddy cop action comedy just that little bit better. In fact, Stakeout, Badham's earlier foray into this type of movie, is stronger.
 

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Memory: The Origin Of Alien- A feature length documentary about the themes and influences behind Alien. This mainly focuses on the inspirations and collaboration of Dan O’bannon, Giger and Ridley Scott as opposed to the actual production of the film. It’s more than a little self indulgent and dips into pseudo intellectual masturbation at times. Despite that there is some really nice behind the scenes stuff and a lot of concept art. They also managed to get some good interviews, for the most part. Oh and don’t be thrown off by the first few minutes which have very little to do with the movie and comes off as lame and unnecessary. Aside from that it’s an easy recommendation.
 

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The Hard Way - 1991 buddy cop film from director John Badham (Stakeout / Saturday Night Fever), starring James Woods and Michael J. Fox.
Fox plays a Hollywood A-Lister known for doing family friendly action films who wants to pivot his career toward something with a harder edge. After hearing about up-coming project that Mel Gibson is fancied for, Fox decides he wants to go method actor and spend time with Woods veteran get the scum-bags at all costs NYPD cop.
What follows is an entertaining, but by-the-numbers, fish-out of water tale, with Fox way out of his comfort zone on the mean streets of early 90s New York, while Woods tries anything and everything to get rid of Fox so that he can bag a serial killer who's on the loose.
The two leads have a really good chemistry, and there's a great supporting cast - I just wish there was a bit more screen time for Stephen Lang's lunatic bad guy. Overall it's well worth watching if you've not seen it before and like the genre, but the, relatively, contemporary Running Scared, and the much later, The Other Guys, do the buddy cop action comedy just that little bit better. In fact, Stakeout, Badham's earlier foray into this type of movie, is stronger.
The Nice Guys > The Other Guys > The Hard Way
 

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I have not seen The Nice Guys yet.... and I legitimately don't know why. One to find over the Christmas break I reckon.
 

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Memory: The Origin Of Alien- A feature length documentary about the themes and influences behind Alien. This mainly focuses on the inspirations and collaboration of Dan O’bannon, Giger and Ridley Scott as opposed to the actual production of the film. It’s more than a little self indulgent and dips into pseudo intellectual masturbation at times. Despite that there is some really nice behind the scenes stuff and a lot of concept art. They also managed to get some good interviews, for the most part. Oh and don’t be thrown off by the first few minutes which have very little to do with the movie and comes off as lame and unnecessary. Aside from that it’s an easy recommendation.
I agree with this assessment. Very gay documentary but it had some good stuff in it.

The recent documentary on Aliens is 50 times better, though.
 

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I have not seen The Nice Guys yet.... and I legitimately don't know why. One to find over the Christmas break I reckon.
It's kind of like this generation's Midnight Run. Not the story so much, but... eh, you'll see.
 

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Midnight Run is a great movie, so hopefully this is streaming on Netflix or Prime or something.
 

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Courteney Cox has officially signed on for Scream 7. Not surprising, of course, but there ya go. So far the only returning cast members are Neve Campbell as Sidney, Cox as Gale, and Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks. It is assumed that Patrick Dempsey as Mark Kincaid and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks will also be back, but nothing has been announced yet.

The Carpenter sisters from the last two movies are gone. Jenna Ortega's star power simply grew too big for the franchise and Melissa Barrera was fired for calling Israel's genocide a genocide.

Same writers as the last two, but for the first time Kevin Williamson (series creator and writer of 1, 2, and 4 and producer on the others) will direct.
 

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Courteney Cox has officially signed on for Scream 7. Not surprising, of course, but there ya go. So far the only returning cast members are Neve Campbell as Sidney, Cox as Gale, and Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks. It is assumed that Patrick Dempsey as Mark Kincaid and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks will also be back, but nothing has been announced yet.

The Carpenter sisters from the last two movies are gone. Jenna Ortega's star power simply grew too big for the franchise and Melissa Barrera was fired for calling Israel's genocide a genocide.

Same writers as the last two, but for the first time Kevin Williamson (series creator and writer of 1, 2, and 4 and producer on the others) will direct.
Will this be the first slasher movie where all the victims are grandparent-aged?
 

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Will this be the first slasher movie where all the victims are grandparent-aged?
Well they brought back the 20-something Meeks Twins from 5 and 6. They also might bring back Hayden Panittiere from 4 and 6. She's only 35, so not granny status like Cox (60) and Campbell (51).

There's a new younger cast as well. Sidney is revealed in this movie to have a young adult daughter (her family was vaguely referenced in 4, and she is shown to have a younger kid in a stroller and a husband in 5; the husband is the detective character she hooked up with at the end of Scream 3). So presumably the daughter and her friends end up being the ones involved in the ghostface shenanigans and the old ladies have to step in and help.

They used the same basic setup in 4, only to do a 180 and kill off almost all of the young cast as a twist. Then they did it again in 5 and handed the franchise over to Barrera and Ortega, but that backfired even though the movies made bank. So they're gonna try again and hope the new kids are popular enough to carry the franchise but not so popular that they outgrow it, I guess.
 

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There is barely a tit to be seen in any of these Scream movies.
 

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There is barely a tit to be seen in any of these Scream movies.
I'm pretty sure the grand total is zero. Wes Craven didn't want to include any in Elm Street, either. No idea what his problem is.
 

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Kevin Williamson wrote most of the movies and he's gay
The writer doesn't decide. They don't write stage direction for the most part, just dialogue. There are plenty of scenes where nudity could have occurred. It's the director's choice as long as it doesn't affect the rating the studio is aiming for.
 

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The writer doesn't decide. They don't write stage direction for the most part, just dialogue. There are plenty of scenes where nudity could have occurred. It's the director's choice as long as it doesn't affect the rating the studio is aiming for.
Well, as you pointed out half the female characters are old ladies. A large chunk are also underage, especially in 1, 4, and 5.

So Scream 2 and 3 would've been the time to do it, when the cast was all playing 20-30 year olds.
 
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