Films

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27 minutes ago, WS_Jack_III said:

We have it at the school library where i work but it's always out. The 6th formers are always reading it.

 

Daredevil is fantastic, I've nearly finished season 2. Jessica Jone was good but i didn't like it as much. Agents of Shield is fantastic too, i need to catch up on season 3. Then there's Agent Carter to catch up on which has ridiculously high approval ratings.

I can't stand Agents of Shield, considering it's Joss Whedon and it was riding off Avengers it was a huge let down for me, they literally took the most boring character from the movies and built a series around him. Every now and then I'll hear people going it's finally gotten good so I watch it again and they just mention something from the films which is what people are getting excited about, even the Inhumans stuff I found poor. At least Carter is good.

Edited March 30, 2016 by jump

[WS_Jack_III]

1 hour ago, jump said:

I can't stand Agents of Shield, considering it's Joss Whedon and it was riding off Avengers it was a huge let down for me, they literally took the most boring character from the movies and built a series around him. Every now and then I'll hear people going it's finally gotten good so I watch it again and they just mention something from the films which is what people are getting excited about, even the Inhumans stuff I found poor. At least Carter is good.

Season one had its problems for sure but i though season two was fantastic. My brother says season three has been really good too.

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43 minutes ago, WS_Jack_III said:

Season one had its problems for sure but i though season two was fantastic. My brother says season three has been really good too.

The two Shields and the forced use of the evil agent (Wade?) during season 2 grated on me. The Inhuman stuff was a waste imo as it didn't actually include any of them from the comics, it will be like a X-Men movie and instead of featuring the likes of Wolverine, Cylcops & co it's just made up them up. Season 3 is about the same but I don't really care about the mystery of the sand planet.

The problem was I expected a show like Firefly, Buffy or Dollhouse but this just felt like background noise to the Marvel films.

Edited March 30, 2016 by jump

[Spindles]

3 hours ago, ThomThomDrum said:

Trainspotting 2 to start shooting in May. 

Hope they do a good job.

Really curious about this.  I'm interested to see the characters again for sure.

[kaosmark2]

1 hour ago, jump said:

The two Shields and the forced use of the evil agent (Wade?) during season 2 grated on me. The Inhuman stuff was a waste imo as it didn't actually include any of them from the comics, it will be like a X-Men movie and instead of featuring the likes of Wolverine, Cylcops & co it's just made up them up. Season 3 is about the same but I don't really care about the mystery of the sand planet.

The problem was I expected a show like Firefly, Buffy or Dollhouse but this just felt like background noise to the Marvel films.

I think it's way better than Dollhouse. Still nothing special.

[Amy Lawn]

18 hours ago, jump said:

^I heard a different story regarding the Inhumans movie, when Feige the guy behind the Marvel films had a huge falling out with Pearlmutter the head of Marvel over the budget of Civil War Disney stepped in and gave Feige control over the films from now on and one of the first things he did was to scrap Inhumans as it was Perlmutter who was backing it and not him.

Marvel has always thrown out ideas with their comics but I don't see Miles Morales, girl Thor, Skaar etc in the films and Ant-Man, Guardians, Big Hero 6 getting pics despite not even having their own comics out at the time.

 

Hadn't heard that about Perlmutter, good news though because the guy's a nob. Maybe you've not seen Miles Morales and female Thor in films yet, but when the existing actor's contracts start to run out or they good too old, they'll need replacing. Currently they're drawing on the 50+ years of material they've got, but the comics definitely have an eye on the future. Big Hero 6 is pretty much an entirely Disney property now so that's not really relevant. I hope with the reduced focus on the Inhumans, they'll fuck off and make X-Men comics readable again. Gretchen, stop trying to make Inhumans happen, it's not going to happen!

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18 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Hadn't heard that about Perlmutter, good news though because the guy's a nob. Maybe you've not seen Miles Morales and female Thor in films yet, but when the existing actor's contracts start to run out or they good too old, they'll need replacing. Currently they're drawing on the 50+ years of material they've got, but the comics definitely have an eye on the future. Big Hero 6 is pretty much an entirely Disney property now so that's not really relevant. I hope with the reduced focus on the Inhumans, they'll fuck off and make X-Men comics readable again. Gretchen, stop trying to make Inhumans happen, it's not going to happen!

I think you're reading too much into it, Marvel has always chopped and changed the status quo decades before they started doing movies. I've never found X-Men to be readable, it's bogged down by so much backstory you don't know what the fuck is going on.

 

18 hours ago, kaosmark2 said:

I think it's way better than Dollhouse. Still nothing special.

I loved Dollhouse but it does get hindered by having the main character who has no personality, gains over people's personalities and develops her own personality all at the same time being played by Eliza Dushku who just plays herself over and over again.

Edited March 31, 2016 by jump

[kaosmark2]

Hardly anyone in dollhouse had personality. The idea behind the show was far better than the execution. 

[WS_Jack_III]

Missed out on Spotlight, thinking of getting the bluray. Is it worth a watch?

[The Nal]

11 minutes ago, WS_Jack_III said:

Missed out on Spotlight, thinking of getting the bluray. Is it worth a watch?

I thought it was brilliant.

Bluray though? Why? Just stream it/rent it. Not something you'd watch over and over.

[WS_Jack_III]

2 minutes ago, The Nal said:

I thought it was brilliant.

Bluray though? Why? Just stream it/rent it. Not something you'd watch over and over.

Could do i suppose. Can rent movies on my playstation. I tend to buy bluray/dvds because i enjoy watching the extras. Plus as you say, you can review the movie whenever you want.

[LondonTom]

Saw Zootopia (or Zootropolis in the UK as as the guy at the pointed out :P) today, was really good. Maybe even better than Inside Out and on a par with Wreck It Ralph!

They even managed to get a Breaking Bad reference in it =p

[bunique]

Didn't think Zootropolis was a patch on Inside Out, although we (5yo and I) enjoyed it. I loved the sloths!

 

Watched Spotlight on Friday night and thought it was excellent. Though it really shows up a lot of modern journalism as a vacuous wasteland...

[TheGayTent]

Really enjoyed Bridge of Spies and I'm not a Hank's fan. 

[t8yman]

I finally watched deadpool, it had some good lol moments, the "ironic nods" got a bit irritating from time to time, but on the whole I liked it. The action was really well shot, and the effects were great. 7/10 for me. It could easily have been 20 minutes shorter too.

Edited April 5, 2016 by t8yman

[Wooderson]

 

[Spindles]

Sick

[thegremlin_1999]

Yes!!

 

[ThomThomDrum]

Noice!!

[DomDom1984]

Good first look there. My expectations have already been pretty high for it and that didn't lower it at all.

[Amy Lawn]

That AT-AT looks slightly wrong.

My immediate inclination is to dislike any new bit of Star Wars, the prequels have given me the mindframe of an abused dog.

[WS_Jack_III]

Rogue One Trailer has me interested!

[ThomThomDrum]

Does anyone know anything about R1 yet? Do we know if Vader will be making an appearance? 

I personally think I will wet myself if he does. 

[Spindles]

They'll tease it and tease it and tease it, then in the last act you'll finally see more than just a sweeping silhouette and the crowds will go wild when JEJ voice comes booming out for the first time.

[Amy Lawn]

I mean, really, the Rogue One trailer is completely amazing isn't it? It's all the lovely lovely Star Warsy things, the proper fucking Star Wars, back to the big screen for the first time in my fucking lifetime. It all looks amazing, I want to cry, I want to marry it, I want to poke holes in it and talk about how it might be bad because I've been hurt before.