The Movie Thread Reloaded

[hedgehobbit]

Have you guys noticed the recent reactions to Sound of Freedom?

Sound of Freedom was the #1 movie again yesterday, so the media attacks seems to be having the opposite effect.

BTW Indy 5 dropped to third place. Crazy.

[Trond]

Have you guys noticed the recent reactions to Sound of Freedom?

Sound of Freedom was the #1 movie again yesterday, so the media attacks seems to be having the opposite effect.

Good on the media then, they're attacking it for a good cause! 

[hedgehobbit]

I saw Mission Impossible 7 yesterday. While it is too long and the premises is a bit silly, the action scenes are well done, mostly logical, and they don't look like they filmed the whole thing in front of a green screen. If you like the previous ones, you'll like this one.

[Tod13]

I've been on a disaster movie kick on HBO Max (it comes with our internet).

Know1ing was pretty good. Nicholas Cage was Nicholas Cage, so you know what to expect from that part. But the rest of it was a really neat premise with a nice ending.

Moonfall was really good. The family relationships stuff in the first half was kind of rough, but played really well into the second half for character motivation. Second half was way better than the first half. It felt like maybe the writers had the point from where they launched the shuttle and worked backwards from there. Again, really neat premise too.

The Last Days on Mars was not so good. How can you make a movie about

Spoiler

zombies

on Mars and make it boring? Way to much strobe-light and unfocused action. Some really good scenes snuck in here and there. Nothing really bad, it just didn't hold my interest.

[Reckall]

The Sound of Freedom is really good - and the media reactions are truly baffling, to the point that they condemn the movie for things that are not even in it.

Remember: these are the same outlets who defended "Cuties", a film that I watched and made me to shower because I felt dirty (not to mention that it was a bad movie in the first place).

[Reckall]

Moonfall was really good. The family relationships stuff in the first half was kind of rough, but played really well into the second half for character motivation. Second half was way better than the first half. It felt like maybe the writers had the point from where they launched the shuttle and worked backwards from there. Again, really neat premise too.

The idea behind "Moonfall" was truly awesome. The problem I had is that we are told about it in a summary made by a NPC. The movie should have been about the characters... dunno, going back in time and discovering the truth bit by bit. The idea was straight out from the Golden Age of Science Fiction: made me live through it instead of getting a ten minutes summary of the plot.

[Tod13]

Moonfall was really good. The family relationships stuff in the first half was kind of rough, but played really well into the second half for character motivation. Second half was way better than the first half. It felt like maybe the writers had the point from where they launched the shuttle and worked backwards from there. Again, really neat premise too.

The idea behind "Moonfall" was truly awesome. The problem I had is that we are told about it in a summary made by a NPC. The movie should have been about the characters... dunno, going back in time and discovering the truth bit by bit. The idea was straight out from the Golden Age of Science Fiction: made me live through it instead of getting a ten minutes summary of the plot.

That would have been a different movie about different events. And way longer. It would be a good sequel or mini series though. I'd definitely watch it if they made it.

But the summary method doesn't bother me if done well, and I thought this one was done well. YMMV. (And looks like it does. LOL)

[Tod13]

Just finished Greenland - comet destroys the Earth disaster.

I wonder about the stability of Greenland during an asteroid strike. The dino-killer strike activated a lot of volcanic activity, and Greenland is already pretty active because of plate tectonics. But good movie. There were good people, bad people, and just plain people in it.

[DocJones]

Disney's cast of "dwarves" for Snow White movie.

[Rhymer88]

Disney's cast of "dwarves" for Snow White movie.

It looks like an extremely low budget comedy flick from the 1970s

[Omega]

Cant be any weirder than casting the Beetles as hobbits for the unfilmed live action Lord of the Rings movie.

[Trond]

Cant be any weirder than casting the Beetles as hobbits for the unfilmed live action Lord of the Rings movie.

Yes that would have been odd, but it totally can be weirder.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs now have a Snow White who isn't white and dwarfs who aren't dwarfs (with one small exception 😄)

So the title should have been something like Senorita and the Seven Weirdos

[Ratman_tf]

Cant be any weirder than casting the Beetles as hobbits for the unfilmed live action Lord of the Rings movie.

Yes that would have been odd, but it totally can be weirder.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs now have a Snow White who isn't white and dwarfs who aren't dwarfs (with one small exception 😄)

So the title should have been something like Senorita and the Seven Weirdos

https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/disneys-live-action-snow-white-under-fire-for-replacing-seven-dwarfs/

It's not the only modernization that the film has made, as it was announced earlier that there will be no Prince Charming coming to save a lost Snow White, but instead focus more on the main character following her leadership dreams.

"It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come.'"

There isn't a rolleyes big enough for this garbage.

#1. The fairy tale existed before Disney adapted it, so it's more than 85 years old.
#2. This isnt' "refreshing", it's the new, old, tired "woke" tropes that have tried to replace good storytelling with terrible storytelling and "diversity" signalling.
#3. Fairy tale dwarfs are not human beings with dwarfism.
#4. I only care because the only entertainment value in these pieces of film-crap is in mocking them.

[oggsmash]

Cant be any weirder than casting the Beetles as hobbits for the unfilmed live action Lord of the Rings movie.

Yes that would have been odd, but it totally can be weirder.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs now have a Snow White who isn't white and dwarfs who aren't dwarfs (with one small exception 😄)

So the title should have been something like Senorita and the Seven Weirdos

  So...odd thing there her name is literally snow white because of her very fair skin right?   I get that people want "representation" but why the fork remake classic tales with clearly defined characters into something else....just WRITE YOUR OWN STORY WITH THE NEW DIVERSE PERSON and be done with it.

[Omega]

  So...odd thing there her name is literally snow white because of her very fair skin right?   I get that people want "representation" but why the fork remake classic tales with clearly defined characters into something else....just WRITE YOUR OWN STORY WITH THE NEW DIVERSE PERSON and be done with it.

Outrage marketing. The equivalent of clickbait.

They know people will complain and that will drive up attendance. Free advertising.