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[TordelBack]

...little more than eye candy in expensive films.

You say that like it's a bad thing, when in fact eye candy is almost all some of those films have going for them.

I'm still aggressively separating Gadot's screen roles from her real-world background (and alleged behaviour) in my head, but is increasingly difficult.  On the days when I'm successful in my efforts, I do think her Wonder Woman is absolutely terrific - she sells the mix of chirpy naif and weary immortal really well, and dear goodness me is she a handsome woman to behold.

[Tiplodocus]

47 METRES DOWN
It would be pretty hard not generate tension and suspense in a film where your two leads are stuck 47m down, running out of air with a couple of Great White Sharks circling.

The crossing open water scenes being particularly scary. They fumble the actual kills though and I genuinely think it would be better with [spoiler]the two endings swapped[/spoiler]. But overall, I enjoyed it despite still being twenty minutes too long on a lean run time.

BLACK PANTHER
I think someone already mentioned how closely the first hour resembled a BOND movie but my goodness, it actually looks like they reused the Casino set from Skyfall.
Enjoyable enough stuff. Would have loved the car chase to have been more practical leaping from vehicle to vehicle rather than just a cgi shooty chasy snooze.

[Keef Monkey]

BLACK PANTHER
I think someone already mentioned how closely the first hour resembled a BOND movie but my goodness, it actually looks like they reused the Casino set from Skyfall.
Enjoyable enough stuff. Would have loved the car chase to have been more practical leaping from vehicle to vehicle rather than just a cgi shooty chasy snooze.

The CG was a bit of a barrier to me getting fully into Black Panther to be honest, I felt like it all had that cheap weightless quality that took all the thrills and punch out of the action. I was surprised it was as bad as it was, given Marvel movies have a great track record with that stuff and this supposedly had a bigger effects budget than most of them.

That and I thought the third act was quite generic and predictable if you've ever seen another Marvel film. I know the structures all have a bit of a cookie cutter cut and paste feel to them at this point, but after the first half feeling more interesting than most Marvel movies in terms of the world-building and the villain and the character motivations etc. it did feel a bit like it ran out of ideas a bit midway through so just checked off all the usual beats.

Still really enjoyed it though, the cast were all brilliantly watchable, it just didn't dethrone the Thor and Guardians series' as my top Marvel movies.

[TordelBack]

MIB3. What a fantastic film. After the grottily disappointing sequel (two-headed Johnny Knoxville?  Really?), I'd given up on the series,  but the third one is quite superb: Josh Brolin is excellent as a young Tommy Lee Jones,  and Jemaine Clement steals the show as the magnificent Tim-Curry-alike villain Boris (just Boris) The Animal. Michael Stuhlberg's Griff exhibits the most entertaining version of precog powers I've seen,  worthy of a Moore Time Twister,  and the tight plot ties up the series in a very satisfying way.  Even Will Smith is okay,  and only yet another wooden turn from Alice Eve lets the side down a little.

Giving this one 5/5 stars with extra points for getting a closeup look at the Apollo 11 launch.

[Colin YNWA]

Arh the joys of school holiday cinema trips are a mixed bag. Today the kids finally got to see Wrinkle in Time, which is surely the most Disney fim ever. I was kinda bored but the kids loved it, especially my 8 year old daughter, who I'd guess is its prime audience and so from that perspective the fact she didn't want to move at the end so engage was she means its a good film for what it is...

... just not for me.

[Hawkmumbler]

47 METRES DOWN
It would be pretty hard not generate tension and suspense in a film where your two leads are stuck 47m down, running out of air with a couple of Great White Sharks circling.

The crossing open water scenes being particularly scary. They fumble the actual kills though and I genuinely think it would be better with [spoiler]the two endings swapped[/spoiler]. But overall, I enjoyed it despite still being twenty minutes too long on a lean run time.

It's a pity then that as a qualified Tec diver I found 47MD to be the best comedy in years, with absolutely hilarious lack of knowledge in diving methodology and technique, they should have been narced after the first 5 mins, and suffering explosive decompression by the second act.

Worst movie I saw last year.

[Robin Low]

MIB3. What a fantastic film. After the grottily disappointing sequel (two-headed Johnny Knoxville?  Really?), I'd given up on the series,  but the third one is quite superb: Josh Brolin is excellent as a young Tommy Lee Jones,  and Jemaine Clement steals the show as the magnificent Tim-Curry-alike villain Boris (just Boris) The Animal. Michael Stuhlberg's Griff exhibits the most entertaining version of precog powers I've seen,  worthy of a Moore Time Twister,  and the tight plot ties up the series in a very satisfying way.  Even Will Smith is okay,  and only yet another wooden turn from Alice Eve lets the side down a little.

Giving this one 5/5 stars with extra points for getting a closeup look at the Apollo 11 launch.

We saw this at the cinema immediately after watching Prometheus. It cheered us up no end. Who'd have thought it would be the better movie by far.

Regards,

Robin

[Theblazeuk]

Watching Thor Ragnarok, loving it so far. Only negative thing so far is Dr Strange and his accent.

It's a pity then that as a qualified Tec diver I found 47MD to be the best comedy in years, with absolutely hilarious lack of knowledge in diving methodology and technique, they should have been narced after the first 5 mins, and suffering explosive decompression by the second act.
Worst movie I saw last year.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing Hawks!

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Pacific Rim 2

First time I've ever heard my youngest go "woah" in a cinema.

How do you improve on the giant robots versus giant monsters action in the first? It's obvious, but I'll tell you anyway: giant robots versus [spoiler]giant monsters inside giant robots[/spoiler] , that's how.

I really enjoyed it.

CAVEAT: I loved Maniac 5

Next up: Ready Player One, then Avengers. God bless free cinema tickets through my works' life insurance!

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Two possible jokes in response to that, the first being "Don't worry, Jim, you'll be safe because you aren't a Palestinian child", and of course the ever-popular "THAT IS TYPICAL OF THE HARD LEFT", which can be embellished by drawing attention to the use of the word "hard" in relation to Gadot's history as little more than eye candy in expensive films.

Robot Overlords - a low-budget UK sci-fi I bought from Poundland that is heavily inspired by John Wyndham's Tripods trilogy, but kneecapped by disastrous dystopian YA novel storytelling sensibilities, a constant struggle with tone, and an episodic script.  It manages a neat trick of not reducing at least one of its two female characters to sex object or matriarch archetypes until the final minutes of the film where for some reason two asexual protagonists develop a physical attraction to each other, and to be fair to it, it's not so much bad as just cheap-looking and lacking in any identity - if you told me this was a couple of episodes of a CBeebies tv show strung together and with some PG swears dubbed in post, I would have no problem believing it.  Somehow Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley got roped into this, and they give proceedings more legitimacy than they deserve, but I bought it from Poundland, so I can hardly say I was expecting better or that I feel cheated.

Didn't Pat Mills write that?

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

My bad.

THis is what I was thinking of:

On Saturday 21st March at the MCM Birmingham, Pat Mills will be hosting the Q&A panel for the new UK  sci-fi adventure "Robot Overlords" with the makers of the film

The panel will feature Jon Wright (Director), Mark Stay (Writer), Paddy Eason (VFX Supervisor) and more TBC, plus giveaways and exclusive extended clips from the movie.

http://www.mcmcomiccon.com/birmingham/2015/03/05/all-hail-our-robot-overlords/

[Tiplodocus]

47 METRES DOWN
It would be pretty hard not generate tension and suspense in a film where your two leads are stuck 47m down, running out of air with a couple of Great White Sharks circling.

The crossing open water scenes being particularly scary. They fumble the actual kills though and I genuinely think it would be better with [spoiler]the two endings swapped[/spoiler]. But overall, I enjoyed it despite still being twenty minutes too long on a lean run time.

It's a pity then that as a qualified Tec diver I found 47MD to be the best comedy in years, with absolutely hilarious lack of knowledge in diving methodology and technique, they should have been narced after the first 5 mins, and suffering explosive decompression by the second act.

Worst movie I saw last year.

Ah, but they had those bits of kit on that stopped that bit happening. I mean they didn't show it or mention it but it must have been there.

Poor jokes about the hoops some fans will jump through to justify stuff, I have always wondered whether other professionals stare with disbelief at the screen like I used to do when stupid stuff happens in a movie "Computers don't work like that!"

[TordelBack]

Poor jokes about the hoops some fans will jump through to justify stuff, I have always wondered whether other professionals stare with disbelief at the screen like I used to do when stupid stuff happens in a movie "Computers don't work like that!"

I think it's everyone.  Working as an archaeologist completely ruins a significant portion of all media.  People often assume I mean Indiana Jones, but actually those aren't half bad, once you ignore the substituted shooting locations and their inevitable destruction - the classroom sequences in particular contain much that is worthy.  However, I'm still not over the ST:TNG episode where they 'carbon date' a lump of alien metal: I can't even count the ways....  etc

[Link Prime]

the classroom sequences in particular contain much that is worthy. 

We don't wanna know how many times a chungwan in your class stenciled "LOVE YOU" to her eyelids.

[TordelBack]

TBH I got more mileage out of the apples from that one young fella.