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In that area, am I the only “marvel fan” who generall enjoys the films but hated Ragnarok
Would really love to see that again, it has been ages. Great one.
The scene with Donald and Daffy on the pianos is great, I like how they morf into different versions of themselves. The film has alot of charm
Blimey I hope the wait won't be that long? The wait for Bond is bad enough!
Based on the British comic book Toxic! (i'd never heard of it), about a Hitman Assassin, Mike Fallon (Scott Adkins), AKA The Accident Man (called this because his talent lies in making each job look like an accident).
There were some good fights, but the best was by far the last one, Fallon vs Jane The Ripper. It has the same ferocity as any fight between two males, this one just happens to be between a male and female. I have seen Adkins in a few JCVD films, but this was the first proper leading role I have seen him in. Having not read the comics, I don't know if the movie depiction was accurate, but Adkins succeeded in making Fallon a likeable person who occasionally opens his mouth without thinking. I also found Fallons dry humour, his one liners punctuate the fights, to be my kind of humour.
If it is possible for an Accident Man 2, count me interested.
Of course I haven’t seen every film made in 2013, but I’ve seen most of the prominent ones and this film is without any doubt the very best of that year. In my opinion of course.
There are som good scenes in that one, if you know what i mean ;)
I didn't hate Ragnarok. I enjoyed it but it was way too comedic for my tastes. I preferred the, when-applied serious tone of Thor 2. It's a shame it was undercut by all those garbage scenes involving Darcy and her intern.
By doing that (ignoring the brother/sister plot and the many supernatural elements of Michael getting shot by a freaking firing squad and being fine, among many other things) the original was a very creepy down to earth tale. This poor teenager was just minding her own business, and a mental patient just happened to escape; the young girl drops a key off at the creepy old house for her realtor dad, and that's all it takes. Michael stalks her around town just because he's nuts. When you jettison all the sequel baggage, and look at it just like that, the movie becomes much creepier!
I'm so excited for this sequel, that picks up after that. And from what I've read, this isn't an H20 redux. Sounds like Michael may have been captured that night (after being shot) and was put back in his asylum for 40 years. Way back in the beginning, they did mention one detail about the original will be changed- I'm betting that's it.
Meanwhile Laurie actually WANTS him to escape, so SHE can kill him!!! This movie will be insane!!!!
Very complicated plot based on time travel,one you need total concentration for,but rewarding in the long run :
Good film, based on a good story.
It’s was DD....but boy I had to concentrate x not a good idea to have a drink first after a long day at work x but as u say the story kept me gripped.
I did extra well then !
Knew nothing about it before I watched it.
It’s taken me a while to like him but he is growing on me .
1. The Dead Zone
2. A History of Violence
3. Videodrome
4. The Fly
5. Dead Ringers
6. Existenz
7. Eastern Promises
8. Spider
9. The Brood
10. Crash
11. A Dangerous Method
12. Naked Lunch
13. M. Butterfly
14. Maps to the Stars
15. Rabid
16. Shivers
17. Scanners
18. Fast Company
19. Stereo
20. Crimes of the Future
21. Cosmopolis
Usually when a movie has so much hype and is really talked up by viewers I tend to feel a bit underwhelmed by said film, because it didn't live up to my expectations. That is not the case with Infinity War. I'll leave my spoiler talk over on the MCU thread but wow, this movie was incredible. I'll admit that it might even be better than The Winter Soldier. I'll probably be seeing this one a few more times while it's in the theater.
I was thinking that the other day, after a few more viewings I think Infinity War may claim top spot in the MCU films.
Just watched Batman: Gotham by Gaslight on Bluray, I had not read the source material so I was going in blind, really enjoyed this Elseworld tale. I am a fan of anything Batman and anything set in the Victorian period so this was a fun watch. It's very dark in places I really got drawn into the story, in fact I wish the film had been longer in run time.
I can surely recommend you dig a little deeper in the Elseworlds stories. There are some really good ones out there. Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham by Mike Mignola is a fantastic Lovecraftian story set in the 1920s. Great stuff for a Lovecraft and Batman fan like myself.
As for GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT, it's quite a good film indeed. I sincerely hope more Elseworlds stuff will be adapted.
I will look out for Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham thanks for the recommend, I am going to purchase GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT on Kindle, I put it off because of the nature of the story and wanted to figure out the mystery myself when watching the film adaption. I stopped reading graphic novels some years ago though I have time to read them again now so I have quite a few to catch up on, Hush being one of them.
The only reaction that amazing film deserves.
RULES DON'T APPLY
Warren Beatty's first film in fifteen years is a story about Marla, an aspiring actress brought to Hollywood by Howard Hughes. She falls for Frank, her Hughes-employed car driver, an aspiring entrepeneur, until life (in the form of Hughes himself) gets in the way.
(Moderate spoilers ahead.)
When you watch a movie, you can usually interpret its intentions, what it's trying to communicate, and judge it by how well it succeeds at doing so. By that criteria, Rules Don't Apply is partially a failure, albeit a very interesting one. It's not outright bad by any means, but with one rewrite it could've been very good (probably not great, though). If you asked me if you should watch it, I'd say yes. This film, warts and all, feels alive, not generic, and is engaging for the most part.
The first hour and a quarter is mostly impeccable, as the relationship between the two leads begins to develop against the backdrop of Hollywood and the mystery surrounding Hughes. But the film goes downhill for a while during the extended quasi-montage, in which Frank becomes Hughes' assistant and travels from city to city with the paranoid, demanding man, catering to his peculiar whims. To the film and the story's detriment, in this part, there is too much superficial Hughes quirkiness and too little drama and character exploration, not so much of Hughes, who is fine as an enigmatic figure, but of Frank and Marla, in terms of the toll their whole situation takes on them, with their frustrations, unrealized dreams and their drifting away from each other. It really was crucial to get some more insight into that in two or three slow-paced scenes, to make the ending of the story pack more of an emotional punch. But we don't, so the denouement feels a bit slight.
Thematically, the film's main topic is the contrast between puritanism (represented in the two main characters' strict religious upbringing) and the sexually-liberated Hollywood (just speaking from the outside, it appears to make sense that notorious womanizer Beatty would be interested in this subject). The movie handles this well, though a bit more insight into Marla and Frank's evolving perception on this matter would've been welcome. One of the most telling moments occurs later in the story, when Frank is having dinner with Levar, his colleague played by Matthew Broderick. Levar notices that Frank no longer prays before eating. Personal values can indeed change and readjust as people's personalities assert themselves and as the social contexts they find themselves in change. The implication of the story and its ending is that in the long run, you don't really know how life is going to turn out or what's going to be important to you. This point is further driven home by the presence of Howard Hughes in the story. He inadvertently gets Marla and Frank together and later separates them in the same way. In the most amusing way, that does say something about how surprising life can be.
At the resolution of the story, there is also this implied sense of time having been wasted, of things having gotten in the way of what was truly important. It's a dramatically pleasing aspect of the story. At the end, it's clear Marla goes to see Howard not only because of his situation, but because of the possibility Frank might still be with him.
One standout moment in the movie happens when Frank walks along Howard along a pier and eats a burger with him. The entire scene, they're walking toward something which we cannot see until the very end, as the camera is looking at the front of them. A clever means of creating intrigue from the smallest of things.
I was also struck by the movie's editing style. This is a fast-paced film, with many really short scenes which end at the snap of the fingers once their point has been made. At times the movie almost feels like a trailer for itself, as if Hughes, with his frenetic mind, had edited it himself. I was taken aback by it at first but then started to like it, strangely enough. This occurs especially early on and in the quasi-montage I was talking about. It works well in the first part but, going back to what I was talking about before, in the later part it needed to be balanced out with a couple of meatier dramatic scenes.
The movie looks gorgeous, very lush and colorful. I think the establishing shots of the cities were sourced from other movies, which gives them a distinctive, old-fashioned look.
Rules Don't Apply has a very starry cast, but the most part it's name actors appearing in very brief supporting roles. They aren't put to particularly great use, but they're welcome presences, especially Dabney Coleman whom I missed seeing. The standouts for me are Oliver Platt, as a one-joke character that tries to talk personally to Howard Hughes, to no avail, and Matthew Broderick as Levar, who slowly becomes a welcome presence just by being there in so many scenes. As for the leads, Lily Collins is flat out terrific, the best in this film. New Han Solo Alden Ehrenreich is very good himself, though I feel he still has more to give than this film got out of him, or that he was prepared to give this time around. Let's see how he will fare in the future. (I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but knowing he is in the upcoming Solo film makes it more interesting for sure.) Warren Beatty is great fun as Hughes. There is something in Beatty's real-life demeanor, a feeling of ramblingness, hesitation and confusion that he can give off at times, and both he and the script put it to great use in this role: his mind appears to be going in a thousand different directions at all time, which results in plenty of amusing non-sequiturs (though we get too much Hughes in the later part of the film).
Last but not least, the title song is absolutely lovely. I remember hearing it for the first time in the "music trailer" that was released in 2016, and appreciating it right away. (Back then I naively hoped to watch the movie on the big screen in my country, before it proved to be a total box-office disaster and vanished from theaters.) I wish more films had songs especifically written for them.
Okay, so as I said, a very interesting "failure," worth watching in spite of its shortcomings. The script needed some adjustments in the later part of the story, but there certainly is enough good stuff here to justify a viewing.
Great movie it's still ranks as Number 1 Batman film for me (Mask of the Phantasm I rate just as highly), and close to being Number 1 Comic Book movie.