I've not seen Aquaman, and I think I'll continue to avoid it then haha.
What film did you watch last night?
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Yep, good point. Out of interest, do you have any recommendations for something that's a little like this? Ta.
Soldato
If you haven’t seen it then The Boys on Amazon Prime.
I mentioned Chronicle on the last page when I said about Brightburn, definitely worth a watch.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593/
Soldato
Fifth element was great fun and had a certain style. Characters actually had some chemistry too. Unlike the steaming pile of excrement that is valerian.
Akira - the Japanese anime.
I’ve watched this many times but it’s only now that I can be honest and say it’s actually not that exciting. Perhaps more ‘important’ than it is good (for introducing western audiences to anime)? The animation is at times excellent but at other times very dated. The characters aren’t really developed at all and the plot can’t carry it through repeated re-runs... you just end up waiting for ‘the good bit’ towards the end which is still pretty slow paced. The ending is also infuriatingly vague.
Definitely worth watching if you haven’t seen it but otherwise 3/5.
I’ve watched this many times but it’s only now that I can be honest and say it’s actually not that exciting. Perhaps more ‘important’ than it is good (for introducing western audiences to anime)? The animation is at times excellent but at other times very dated. The characters aren’t really developed at all and the plot can’t carry it through repeated re-runs... you just end up waiting for ‘the good bit’ towards the end which is still pretty slow paced. The ending is also infuriatingly vague.
Definitely worth watching if you haven’t seen it but otherwise 3/5.
Thanks for the suggestion. I watched it earlier today and loved it.
Cheers, I will check it out later today.
Edit: forgot to mention that I saw Oldboy last night (Josh Brolin). I thought I had seen part of it before but as it turns out, I must have seen it all. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it again. Recommended.
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Now become enraged when you find out it should have had a sequel but Fox railroaded the director into making the Fantastic 4 reboot instead.
Now become enraged when you find out it should have had a sequel but Fox railroaded the director into making the Fantastic 4 reboot instead.
I've not seen any of those so I'm assuming I should keep well away from them.
I've not seen any of those so I'm assuming I should keep well away from them.
Put it on your watch list for tomorrow.
Soldato
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood.
I enjoyed Tarantino’s early work but the second half of his filmography hasn’t excited me. This film encapsulates that but in reverse. The film is almost a series of vignettes, there is no real as such we just follow a series of people through their lives in 1969. The first half I found somewhat pretentious and boring but the second half was excellent culminating in a sequence that earned the film its 18 certificate
First half 3/10, second half 9/10.
I enjoyed Tarantino’s early work but the second half of his filmography hasn’t excited me. This film encapsulates that but in reverse. The film is almost a series of vignettes, there is no real as such we just follow a series of people through their lives in 1969. The first half I found somewhat pretentious and boring but the second half was excellent culminating in a sequence that earned the film its 18 certificate
First half 3/10, second half 9/10.
Really? I thought it was pretentious and boring the entire movie. It's just Tarantino's own fears spread over a painful 3 hours.
5/10
why even include the mundane life of Sharon Tate if you're going to change it all anyway at the end just to construct the end scene (Rick walking into the Polanski residence) and thus reassuring the viewer everything is going to be ok? It's just so stretched and painful
I did enjoy the 60s retro feel and the cinematography.
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Interesting. Aquaman is the worst thing i've seen in recent memory, but I thoroughly enjoyed Valarian. Good, light-hearted space romp.
I drew their similarity from the heavy reliances on pretty visuals to keep the viewer hooked. While Aquaman at least has a charistmatic lead with Momoa, the two leads in Valerian were completely vacant. Also...eyebrows
Caporegime
As others have said, it has the bright pretty visuals things that Fifth Element (which was a good movie) and Valerian (which was a bad movie) had, which makes it marginally watchable.
The story, villain(s), etc are contrived, cliched and generally just crap.
That said, I would love to be the filling in a Mera and Atllana sandwich!
Aquaman film is still not sounding very enticing haha.
Soldato
I have purposefully stayed as far away from aquaman as possible. Looks utter garbage 
Caporegime
Tbf, I only watched it as it was on TV when we were on holiday