The Movie Thread Reloaded

[hedgehobbit]

I watched Small Soldiers (1998). It was pretty entertaining. Basically story is: through a short-cut in manufacturing, toys come alive to wage war. There's more to the story. Entertaining, and I think better than its reviews suggest.

A couple months ago they released a Small Soldiers 5-minute short as a tech demo for Unreal Engine 5. Not much happens but it does look pretty real.

[hedgehobbit]

Took daughter to see Five Nights at Freddy's. She wore a red sweater and an eyepatch and took her Foxy plush.

Saw it with my own daughter. Despite knowing almost nothing about FNAF, I followed along well enough. My only real confusion was why there were 5 kids but only 4 robots.

But it did have one line of dialog that seemed like it came straight from an RPG session:

BIG BROTHER: So the kids are ghosts?

LITTLE SISTER: Of course. How else could they move the robots?

[Thornhammer]

Saw it with my own daughter. Despite knowing almost nothing about FNAF, I followed along well enough. My only real confusion was why there were 5 kids but only 4 robots.

The 5th robot was Golden Freddy, the one that left the pizza restaurant and ganked the aunt.

That isn't unreasonable confusion - they didn't explain Golden Freddy, and there was really no reason given to think it was a separate robot.

[Tod13]

I watched Small Soldiers (1998). It was pretty entertaining. Basically story is: through a short-cut in manufacturing, toys come alive to wage war. There's more to the story. Entertaining, and I think better than its reviews suggest.

A couple months ago they released a Small Soldiers 5-minute short as a tech demo for Unreal Engine 5. Not much happens but it does look pretty real.

That's so cool! Thanks for posting. I like the wordless storytelling.

[Omega]

I watched Small Soldiers (1998). It was pretty entertaining. Basically story is: through a short-cut in manufacturing, toys come alive to wage war. There's more to the story. Entertaining, and I think better than its reviews suggest.

Saw it when it came out. Was interesting if a little disjointed. But at least it was done with mostly practical effects.

[Omega]

Came across another odd one while trying to find an old supernatural soap opera.

What came across instead was a Canadian supernatural soap opera called Strange Paradise from 1970. Apparently ran nearly 200 episodes.
 
About a man on a tropical island who's wife had just passed away. He though is hellbent on bringing her back. The first episode had the character contacted by the cursed ghost of his infamous ancestor from the 1700s. The ghost has a really interesting voice that made me think of Sutekh from Doctor Who.
 
The spectre tempts the hero with supernatural aid to bring back his wife. For a price.

Not bad production for a soap and it seems to hie off in a different direction than that of say Dark Shadows which came out a few years prior. The first two episodes I had a look at keep switching to some sort of business and the ups and downs of running it. Curious how those might converge.

Apparently around episode 60 the show was retooled, recast, and the setting moved to some manor in the US.
 

[Trond]

My wife just started watching Fall of the House of Usher miniseries. First few minutes seemed fine, and then holy crap they hit you hard with the pandering. Every crook is a rich evil white guy, the good guy is black and gay. Oh, by the way, nearly everyone is gay apparently.

[Thornhammer]

It does wield a rather outsized Diversity Stick, doesn't it?

The Usher kids are all just fucking awful people, though, and they do get what is coming to them.

[Thornhammer]

Watched Bullet Train the other day.

Absolutely ridiculous, but extremely violent and builds up to a titanic destruction of the train. I had a lot of fun watching it and Junior also had a good time.

It's John Wick but much more light-hearted.

[Lurkndog]

Yeah, I enjoyed Bullet Train.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is great in it.

I wouldn't compare it to John Wick, though. It's much more Tarantino-esque. It's like Smokin' Aces on a train, only it's better than Smokin' Aces.

[hedgehobbit]

Watched Bullet Train the other day.

Absolutely ridiculous, but extremely violent and builds up to a titanic destruction of the train. I had a lot of fun watching it and Junior also had a good time.

It was frustrating to watch because the train would randomly switch from being crowded to empty, sometimes within the same scene.

[Ratman_tf]

Anybody seen Rebel Moon?

[Omega]

Anybody seen Rebel Moon?

Not yet. But the basic premise reads a little like Battle Beyond the Stars, except with a girl as the one to go out and get help. I doubt they will all have cool starships though. 

[Omega]

Sat through an old Japanese metal hero series called Guyferd finally after many many a year trying to find a copy.

Fairly standard plot of a person getting turned into a super-being. In this case a bio-mechanical one. Nice suit design.

Takes some interesting divergences from the standard pattern too. The heroes family actually get in and fight the villains minions quite a bit. The hero has no vehicle or giant robot. And the main villain is defeated less than half way through and the real mastermind then kicks in. Also the hero gets only a slight power upgrade late in rather than the usual mid-series overhauls some of the henshin heroes undergo.

[yosemitemike]

I came across a horror movie called The Pyramid while looking for something to watch on Amazon Prime.  I knew I had seen if before but I couldn't really remember a thing about what happened in it.  I watch it again.  Now I remember why I didn't remember anything about it.  Most of the movie is characters that I didn't care about being chased through tunnels by cgi monsters and dying.  The specifics are already disappearing from my brain.