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[Fungus]

True Grit

Although I lasted only 30 mins. I know it's the Coens, I know it's a fantastic version. But in practice, I  could not take any more of Jeff Bridges' incoherent mumbling. I gave up. Shame, as it looked good.

As ever, I may be in a minority of one on this.

[Theblazeuk]

Put the subtitles on?

[Link Prime]

As an added bonus, while the exterior of the house and views outside the windows are Craggy Island, the interiors and views into the windows are Rugged Island. Two parochial houses for the price of one! . Just don't mention the Inishmore Tedfest, it's a  prickly subject. Vaughan's in nearby Kilfenora is also worth a look, as the focal point of Craggy Island's Chinese community, with a certain roundabout just around the corner.

Thanks again TB, it's on my radar for around Easter.
I'll make it a surprise for the missus too, who's a huge FT fan.

[Tiplodocus]

True Grit

Although I lasted only 30 mins. I know it's the Coens, I know it's a fantastic version. But in practice, I  could not take any more of Jeff Bridges' incoherent mumbling. I gave up. Shame, as it looked good.

As ever, I may be in a minority of one on this.

It is good. I don't recall having a problem with The Dude's dialogue. Can you hear everyone else? Is the sound mix on your telly ok?  (We did end up doing subtitles on Battlestar Galactica.)

[I, Cosh]

True Grit

It is good. I don't recall having a problem with The Dude's dialogue. Can you hear everyone else? Is the sound mix on your telly ok?  (We did end up doing subtitles on Battlestar Galactica.)

This isn't the first time I've seen someone complaining about the Bridges' mumbling but, like yourself, I don't recall having any problems understanding him.

[Dark Jimbo]

I did find myself missing the odd sentence/word when I saw it at the cinema - a good quarter of all his lines in the film - but didn't mind at all. If I suddenly pitched up in the Old West I have no doubt I'd struggle with some of the thicker accents, so it really helped sell the setting, as a 'total immersion'-type thing.

[Fungus]

Missing ... about 50% of his mumbles felt irritating and too much. Don't tinker with default settings. Sounded fine otherwise, just JB.

The subtitles suggestion was inspired 
But saved telly doesn't show them, even when switched [on] for the purposes of this test. Need to investigate this.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Jupiter Ascending. Bloody awful. Just bloody awful.

When I saw those lizard things walking past in one of the earlier trailers for this film I thought of this film/cartoon adaption otaken from the very first book in the Dragon-Lance series

In a proper live action adaption....

Channing Tatum with long hair and full beard....



Or a younger Brad Pitt as.....



Tanis Half-Elven



I only considered the former because he's in the film with those things....



I think the creators of the cartoon adaption I linked up above might squandered too much money into digitalising the Dragon/ Draconians....



What I saw in Jupiter Ascending....



Somebody suggested they are really   David Ick's Reptilian's

While the heroic protagonists/villainous antagonists, other major and minor players, backdrops is just simple animation and scenery.  They might have been able to finish the trilogy if they saved money but not using the 3D-pologons in the first carton adaption.

Someone else's Dreamcast  for Dragon-Lance

I'm not sure about Lena Hedly for Kitiara Majere.

or Russell Crowe  as Caramon and David Bowie as Raistlin Majere twin brothers also related to Kitiara.

Caramon is a tall muscle bound warrior type who would look considerably younger than Russell. I'm still not sure who could him, but his brother Raistlin who is much skinnier, almost wasting away and suffering from lung infection. His most notable features, golden skin and hourglass shaped pupils. The most intelligent of the companions and now a powerful mage. The skin and eyes, acquisitions from his trials in the Tower of Sorcery. While I can see how David Bowie could turn his looks, voice and hand to any role sent his way. I would see him better as one of or all of the Elves. While I would normally choose real life twin to play the brothers Majere, but can not find anybody else who may resemble Kevin Bacon (I choose him to be Raistlin!) enough for that to be possible.

I like the choice for Tika Waylan, and would have suggested Lindsy Lohan myself, but not so sure about choice now 

Some characters not mentioned.....

Verminard..... The actor who was Thor is my only choice so far. He's one of the main villains, who wields a magical mace, wears dark plate armour and rides a dragon.

Elistan,  Who I can only imagin would have been played by Charleton Heston who is no long amongst us, yet would have been suberb as the good aligned  Cleric  who was compared with Moses.

Fizbann the Fabulous with that annotation alone, I might have suggested Ian Mackellan one his recent experiences and personal background alone. Yet, I had always imagined the absent minded old wizard as Robin Williams. Except that he's also gone now as well, of course. Now, after some thought about this identity and his alter ego, the great god Paladine (Who looks like a angelic armoured knight! Just imagine Gandalf is really Manwe and Pat Mills is really Tharg! Yet, we understand that both identities here are not so confused as mortals! (No insult intended!)

I now have Al Pacino in mind, with thoughts of his constant befuddlement inspired by his performance as a eccentric seeming blind army officer and then I could see his god-half inspired by his Scarface. I could imagine a new version of the armoured guardian rising from the pit his former bent old wizard self was thrown into. Now looking much younger, wearing a suit and wielding a large firearm. Only a god would bring a gun to a sword fight.



If you could imagine the old gods of Dargonlance to be really being fithy rich and gun toting criminals!

I think that will do for now....

[ZenArcade]

Keep er' lit TS. One of the things that grabbed me about True Grit was the use of language, it leant a sense of believability missing from the Wayne version. Z

[Charlie boy]

X-Men Days of Future Past.  Well that wasn't very good.

I watched it recently and did quite like the beginning but my interest sort of trailed off here and there from then on. On plot points I'll feel funny using spoilers on cos I thought everyone had long seen it, [spoiler]I thought it was odd Mystique being the point of interest Sentinel-wise instead of Rogue giving how her powers work[/spoiler] and I was more than a little confused at how [spoiler]Magneto seemed to get the early Sentinels under his command by simply shoving railway tracks into them[/spoiler] but maybe there's a clear explanation for both I missed. By the end I may have been twiddling my thumbs but did find myself wondering [spoiler]if they end up at a reality where Wolverine never got the ol' adamantium skeleton[/spoiler] but can't say I'm really excited to find out either way. Probably thinking too much into the film here too but Wolverine's whole [spoiler]"Send me back because my mind can heal!"[/spoiler] did just seem a lazy explanation for why he was given the lead.

[Link Prime]

By the end I may have been twiddling my thumbs but did find myself wondering [spoiler]if they end up at a reality where Wolverine never got the ol' adamantium skeleton[/spoiler]

Seemed likely.
Which could fit quite nicely into next year's X-Men: Apocalypse.

It was Apocalypse who bestowed Wolverine's Adamantium skeleton the 2nd time in the comics (no spoiler required, it happened in 1999), makes sense that they re-use the idea in a film that includes him as the main antagonist.

And I'm calling it [spoiler]Jackman / Wolverine will be one of the main villains in the next film; (the Horseman) Death[/spoiler].
Well, at least until the end.

[Spikes]

True Grit

I could not take any more of Jeff Bridges' incoherent mumbling.

And to top it all off, Matt Damon renders his own tongue practically inoperative as well. What a film! 

But joking aside, and though it took me a couple of viewings, I heartily recommend giving it another try Fungus, for it is indeed a fine movie.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I now have Al Pacino in mind, with thoughts of his constant befuddlement inspired by his performance as a eccentric seeming blind army officer and then I could see his god-half inspired by his Scarface. I could imagine a new version of the armoured guardian rising from the pit his former bent old wizard self was thrown into. Now looking much younger, wearing a suit and wielding a large firearm. Only a god would bring a gun to a sword fight.

That was really meant to be......

I now have Al Pacino in mind, with thoughts of his constant befuddlement inspired by his performance as a eccentric seeming blind army officer in Scent of a Woman

[Famous Mortimer]

Charlie boy - the Sentinels were non-metal specifically so Magneto couldn't do anything to them, so by putting the railway tracks into them, it allowed him to manipulate them however he liked. Everything after then is just "Magneto-powers", and can be handwaved away as such.

Re: Mystique being the focus of stuff, I think that's just Jennifer Lawrence being a much bigger star than Anna Paquin. Also, in the comics (sorry if I'm stating the obvious) the time-traveller was Kitty Pryde, but Hugh Jackman is a massive star and Ellen Page isn't (quite as much), so that's why he got the storyline.

Again, apologies if you all know this already and I misunderstood the question. Informing people on a 2000AD forum of the stories of famous comics is a bit like going on a movie buff forum and saying "hey, anyone seen Citizen Kane?"

[Professor Bear]

Magneto pocketed the schematics for the Sentinels from the meeting just before he jumped out the window after Mystique, perhaps he used his often-referenced knowledge of advanced robotics to take control of them after that.

Unbroken - kind of boring.  If you want a brutality-porn movie about sadistic wardens, watch Sylvester Stallone's dumb-as-fuck Lock Up instead, which treats the genre with about as much intellectual gravitas as it needs, as Unbroken just goes nowhere and doesn't seem to have any kind of angle on the story it's telling.  There's an interesting angle about forgiveness that I would have thought would have been great to explore given how the film tries to bow out, but instead the running theme seems to be that its main character is a bit stubborn and the Japanese weren't very nice to their enemies during the war, so I suppose if you were happy enough with 12 Years A Slave taking two hours to tell you that contrary to what you might have presumed to be the case, slaves weren't treated very well, you might get something from this apart from the forty winks I wish I'd gotten instead of staying awake.