What have you watched recently?

[blackdog 3,805]

Seen Spider-Man Far From Home a week ago in cinema, then Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse on digital tonight; this is the most impressive animated movie since the release of Monsters Inc., absolutely captivating in terms of art. Also a very good story

Dunno why they are so stingy in terms of web slinging for the MCU movies.

Also watched for the first time Big Trouble in Little China

So I now understand the meme

Edited August 21 by blackdog

[[HP] 8,892]

4 hours ago, blackdog said:

Seen Spider-Man Far From Home a week ago in cinema, then Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse on digital tonight; this is the most impressive animated movie since the release of Monsters Inc., absolutely captivating in terms of art. Also a very good story

Dunno why they are so stingy in terms of web slinging for the MCU movies.

Also watched for the first time Big Trouble in Little China

So I now understand the meme

Quality post!

 

Also, dunno where to post or talk about this, but you guys seen that Matrix 4 is in the works? All original cast too? 

I mean, after the absolutely great sequel that Blade Runner 2049 was, I'm open minded, long as they dont do cgi fest like Revolutions.

 

[FMPONE 5,527]

59 minutes ago, [HP] said:

Quality post!

 

Also, dunno where to post or talk about this, but you guys seen that Matrix 4 is in the works? All original cast too? 

I mean, after the absolutely great sequel that Blade Runner 2049 was, I'm open minded, long as they dont do cgi fest like Revolutions.

 

Optimistic for a Matrix sequel? 

Did you skip all the years since 1999?

[blackdog 3,805]

@[HP] not surprised of the announcement as it was rumoured already during the John Wick campaign, but I have zero confidence in the Watchowskys after Sense8: I found it unwatchable, the gay contents were really on the nose and imo didn’t add anything to the narrative; it felt like propaganda. Even a company as woke as Netflix couldn’t keep the lights on the show, so I can’t be the only one of this opinion.

[Radu 2,030]

8 hours ago, FMPONE said:

Optimistic for a Matrix sequel? 

Did you skip all the years since 1999?

The Matrix is one of my favorite films. I even like the sequels, but I am not optimistic about this one at all. Hopefully it turns out mind numbingly great, but I have my doubts.

[FMPONE 5,527]

1 hour ago, Radu said:

The Matrix is one of my favorite films. I even like the sequels, but I am not optimistic about this one at all. Hopefully it turns out mind numbingly great, but I have my doubts.

Yeah the first one is an amazing, polished work of art. The second and third were unbelievably stupid, it's crazy they were made by the same people.

Sometimes an artist creates an amazing work of art, then creates more art that is so bad you almost swear they must have stolen a wandering gypsy's amazing idea for a project, then killed them to hide the secret forever. The Matrix is a good example of this phenomenon, as is "The Sixth Sense" (although in that case, the gypsy had like, one or two other good ideas that M. Night also stole...)

What have the Wachowskis done since the first Matrix to inspire any confidence?

[[HP] 8,892]

22 minutes ago, FMPONE said:

What have the Wachowskis done since the first Matrix to inspire any confidence?

I think the Wachowskis are very hit and miss, they have some really horrible stuff, almost unwatchable, yet at the same time some of their works are REALLY damn good.
Movies like, Speedracer, V for Vendetta and Assassins are absolute must watch classics.
On the other hand, Matrix Revolutions, Jupiter Ascending and (arguably) Cloud Atlas are so bad it really makes you question what the fuck they were thinking.

So, what gives me some faith here, is that Matrix Revolutions was so bad, in so many obvious ways, there's no way they can't know that, there's no way they don't know that the formula to make a sequel is somewhere in the first movie, not in the two sequels that proceeded it. Also, I didn't say I'm optimistic, I said I'm open minded.

[FMPONE 5,527]

3 minutes ago, [HP] said:

I think the Wachowskis are very hit and miss, they have some really horrible stuff, almost unwatchable, yet at the same time some of their works are REALLY damn good.
Movies like, Speedracer, V for Vendetta and Assassins are absolute must watch classics.
On the other hand, Matrix Revolutions, Jupiter Ascending and (arguably) Cloud Atlas are so bad it really makes you question what the fuck they were thinking.

So, what gives me some faith here, is that Matrix Revolutions was so bad, in so many obvious ways, there's no way they can't know that, there's no way they don't know that the formula to make a sequel is somewhere in the first movie, not in the two sequels that proceeded it. Also, I didn't say I'm optimistic, I said I'm open minded.

I forgot about V for Vendetta. So, that was at least watchable. Surprised to hear Speedracer was any good.

[[HP] 8,892]

7 minutes ago, FMPONE said:

I forgot about V for Vendetta. So, that was at least watchable. Surprised to hear Speedracer was any good.

Dude, you need to watch Speedracer! It's a really underrated fun movie.

 

[FMPONE 5,527]

watched the Ninja Scroll movie. fucking owned, its metal as fuck

[0kelvin 118]

I'm watching a series of videos about abuse. The youtuber who does it is a Phd in Social sciences, but is currently shifting to the field of psychology and studying about abuse. He discusses what is abuse, emotional abuse, narcissim, victims of abuse, how to identify an abuser, etc. Lots of ppl are watching his videos and having that enlightment moment, some of them are thanking him because now they understand why their mother did what she did, or why a woman would fall in love with an abuser.

The videos are all in portuguese, so unless you know the language, there are no subtitles to help.

Edited August 28 by 0kelvin

[will2k 3,118]

I'm re-watching Charlie Chaplin movies starting with "The Kid" (1921) and "City Lights" (1931)

Nothing beats childhood favorites

 

[kleinluka 422]

Just watched Dunkirk the other day (yes I know I'm late). What a dark movie, but amazing at the same time.