Anyone watching Chernobyl?
I recently remembered that I had HBO for free on my internet service and I heard about the show from The Atlantic.
It’s dramatized and so there are some parts that feel a bit too on the nose, but overall it’s absolutely dreadful to watch. I love every minute of it.
Godzilla 2
Holy shit the dialogue was amazing. I was giggling at every word that came out of Ken Watanabe’s(the Japanese woo woo scientist from the first movie) mouth. Then Vera Famiga, also a scientist, manages to double down on the “nature and natural balance” shit so much in one monologue in the 2nd act she even makes him go nuts and I fucking LOST IT. Then the Chinese chick(Zhang Ziyi from Rush Hour 2 still looking adorable as ever), another scientist, manages to outdo him with the woo woo shit such that when he makes a really important decision that will decide the fate of humanity near the end I start laughing so hard my wife starts hitting my arm to shut me up.
The movie is very dumb but that would be alright if it didn’t try so hard to not look dumb. The visual effects are great… when you can fucking figure out whats going on through the horrible shaky cam and editing. There’s absolutely no reason to keep showing the monsters fight through the POV of the characters, especially when all the characters suck. Could have been really good if the movie didn’t take itself so seriously and with a better director. It’s a monster movie with lots of giant monsters fucking shit up. No need to overcomplicate it or try to make it deeper than it needs to be.
6/10.
Since i am probably one of the main G fans ( if not the only)who hangs out on this site… Ill let you know what I think after I view it tomorrow .
Damn it…cant argue with your assessment. I will give it a average grade …
The only saving grace is the director actual knows the source material and draws heavily from the TOHO movies. Unfortunately, allot of the fan service will be lost on your average movie goer.
Lol you get what I was talking about. I couldn’t even describe a fraction of how dumb the plot really was without giving out major spoilers.
I watched the film twice- on opening day and today with my brother.
I loved the film the first time. It’s really fun seeing Ghidorah in all its 200 million dollar CGI glory. I liked that it generates its own massive hurricane. Bad plot be damned.
Second time around the entire film feels flat. And I didn’t enjoy that Ghidorah generates its own massive hurricane because it makes it harder to see what happens.
I think the film would been better if it stuck to a very basic plot where Ghidorah invades Earth, thus triggering the titans to awake and confront it. There, you got all the titans awake and have the set-up for Godzilla vs Kong.
I don’t understand the horrible ratings this movie got in comparison to Skull Island or the 2014 Godzilla though. Is it because those movies at least had Samuel L. Jackson and Bryan Cranston having some sort of character arc?
This would have been an infinitely better plot.
I don’t remember anything about Skull Island other than the guy who always acts in horrible comedies with Will Ferrell, and a couple of silly pointless references to Apocalypse Now lol. Seriously. I didn’t even recall Samuel L. Jackson was in it until you wrote this.
I think the 2014 Godzilla wasn’t bad as in it didn’t do anything WRONG other than killing off Bryan Cranston too early. It was just so mediocre and bland in it’s execution although there were some scenes that did stand out like the EMP thing Godzilla did and the monster fight at the end.
For Godzilla 2, the problem is the characters weren’t even real characters. They were just there to narrate the plot to the audience. Fuck, remember that scene where Vera Famiga explains her motivations to Ken Watanabe and gang? She even included a stupid montage of scenes of people engaging in war and destruction on the communication screen. Why, FFS, would anyone include that lol?
They made it quite clear in Godzilla 2014 that Godzilla was a force of nature- tsunamis, earthquakes, nuclear disasters etc. And we were a party to our own destruction by fucking around with nuclear energy and A bombs. So they had to focus on the human drama with Godzilla in the background.
In this movie, Godzilla IS the main character. They should have shot the fighting and carnage from his POV with a lot of wide shots from humans(the audience) witnessing the grand spectacle from a distance. But they still shot most of it from the characters’ POV. It was pointless and confusing. This, IMO, was the biggest problem.
Sounds like the Godzilla movies need to embrace the absurdity of the premise, a la John Wick.
That’s one of the things I loved about Pacific Rim; it knew exactly what it was and didn’t try to do a whole lot more.
The one where their solution to fight giant aliens was to fuse people’s brains so they can sit in a big robot and fist fight the aliens, but when all else fails, there’s still a giant gun that can kill the aliens, that they could have just sat directly in front of the portal and fired it off every time one appeared?
Spoilers:
I had time to think more on it… The Orca device is a over used plot device in the movie franchise. This will make the 7th film in the film series were a device was used to either control or have influence over one or more creatures …
I agree. Godzilla is the main character and Ghidorah is the antagonist.
I loved rocketman!!! I’m gonna buy the sound track !!!
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Oh my God Elton is coming to Edmonton ahhh
@dt79 also wanted to add that as much as some fans say it was a love letter to them. I could have done with them not doing certain things in the monster battles. Since some of the key moments were nothing more than recycled things from previous films just slightly modified.
Watched Into the Spiderverse with my son today. I would say it’s the best Spider-Man movie since the original. Impeccable animation, great voice acting, comical and serious, has a comic-book feel to it. I wish a Post Malone song wasn’t featured, but the movie gets a pass regardless.
Yes; also the one where the sword always kills the monster, every time, immediately, but we only use it as a last resort.
Don’t care. Loved it.
BBC’s Good Omens is really good.
Disclaimer: I have never read anything by Neil Gaimon so fans of his work may have different views. During the period he first got popular and you toxic masculine male wannabe, basement dwelling nerds who thought you were being edgy by reading Sandman and shit, I was reading Jane Eyre. The patriachy will fall!
I saw detective Pikachu a couple of weeks ago. Thought it was actually a really enjoyable film. The animation and CGI were actually really top drawer, and the plot was surprisingly complex for a film aimed at young children. So much so that I imagine it may have been difficult for very young children to follow, and the world was very creative and immersive.
Anyone else see this? Would recommend!
Watched it really liked it.
To be able to screen a Hong Kong movie in China with all the wonderful stuff like gangs, guns, kidnapping, over-the-top criminals, dirty cops, etc, apparently this is what your write-up for your movie has to look like:
“Before 1997, due to the ignorance of the British Administration of Hong Kong, the criminal genius Logan (Tony Leung) savages Hong Kong with a series of notorious crimes. He kidnaps the first sons of the Hong Kong regals, Li and Lui, ransoming a sum of over 2 billion dollars…”
LMAO!!!