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Andy Garcia was the coolest Muthafucker alive in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, a film which I remember very fondly. He hasn’t been in a good film for well over 10 years and so it comes to pass that he is in the god awful Geostorm. He ain’t in it much thankfully, no, the real star is Gerard Butler. Yup. Exactly.

The film sucks dick.

I also watched Enter The Dragon. Again.

It’s not my favourite martial arts film but, by god, it has the best soundtrack. That intro music is pure jive, you honky honk a honks. Honk.

And Bruce Lee? Man that guy looked like he was carved out of oak. What a beautiful man he was.

Bonus song:

Fucking

He was in Passengers, though, which was good.

And Ghostbusters, which was meh except for when Hemsworth was on the screen.

I’d say Passengers was average and it felt like #beautifulpeopleproblems

I’ve watched The Disaster Artist an’ all. It’s very good but it does require at least a basic understanding of The Room. I can imagine some people going in cold my be put off by Franco’s peformance but it might actually be a damn goood performance of a child-like nutcase. I’d recommend it but only with that caveat.

Coco is superb. I'm not crying, you're crying!

A challenge for you all: name a film with a stronger opening scene than The Lion King.

Raiders of the lost ark.
The shining.

Lion king is certainly up there though.

Shining is just drinking up the mountain, isn't it?

I was more thinking of the tour of the grounds.

Up
Saving Private Ryan (is the beach landing the opening?)
Lost in Translation (just for you,Grim...)

Nah, it's some veterans at a memorial or something I think.

Cancel that one then.

Difficult challenge to think of a memorable opening scene. But I can’t think of how the Lion King opens either.

Another guess though: Star Wars (take your pick) for the iconic crawl.

I’ve never seen The Lion King. I’m sure Russell told me it’s basically Hamlet, though. The only things I am aware of is some baboon holding the baby over a cliff, in homage to Michael Jackson waving someone’s baby over a balcony and Hakuna Matata, as my old workmate would sing it every day, despite knowing only two words of it.

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe starts with a pretty intense bombing raid.

Lethal Weapon 2 - the toilet bomb
Inglorious Bastards - the interrogation
The Matrix - face kicking in leather
Train spotting - choose narration

Also:
Casino
Mean Streets
Pulp Fiction

Though I'd go with Up or Trainspotting.

Up's opening scene isn't the sequence everyone is thinking about. The film starts with the old man as a young boy watching a news reel at the cinema about Paradise Falls and then has a little adventure with the wife to be.

That’s exactly the sequence. You have to introduce the characters before you kill them off in a bitter sweet montage.

Four minutes isn't enough for The Matrix.

Trainspotting is a good shout though.

Best opening sequence of recent films I’ve seen is Baby Driver, although I’ll need ten years to think about it before I can decide if belongs in the classics or not.

I'd put a joke here about using the 'Remind me' feature of the forum but I can't remember how to do it.

The opening scene of Baby Driver for anyone who, like me, couldn't remember it:



It's pretty good to be fair.

Baby driver is a good shout. On a similar tip, based on something I saw on Reddit this week, what about Shaun of the Dead? Apparently they lay out all the film's key plot points in a monologue about how their night will pan out. Not seen it for years so can't say for sure however.

You're thinking of The World's End.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/7r66zg/in_shaun_of_the_dead_the_films_key_events_are/

They may well have repeated the same trick in world's end though.

Natural born killers, but I haven't seen the lion king, so don't know what I'm competing with.

That's such an incredibly kinetic opening, especially in the uncut version.

Baby Driver is so consumed with being delighted at how clever its opening sequence is that I found it rather annoying. (And yes I did 'get it'.)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Jaws
Minions

Thrender.

Legit

Shock Wave was added to Netflix today. A Chinese Die Hard type of a film, that's half an hour too long.



Some of the dialogue is a bit crap too..

Just watched Good Time on Netflix. Fucking brilliant. Robert Pattinson can now be forgiven for the sparkly vampire films.

I think I’ve shown my distain for comic book films before and I maintain that Antman, Dr Strange and some others are, actually, a bit shit. I do like the Avengers movies though and the latest Spider-Man was great.

Thor: Ragnarok is next level shit. Hilarious throughout, brilliantly written, gave Thor a personality lacking from his own films (but on display in the Avengers), has some brilliant characters (villains aside, who are the least impressive), is far funnier than the “comedy” Marvel film Galaxy of the Guardians, and Hulk/Banner is/are hilarious, the last valkyrie was awesome. It’s just hilarious. Did I mention it’s hilarious? Man alive, I bloody loved it. Even the 80’s futurism, and synth soundtrack, the colours, couldn’t give a toss about the CGI for a change, etc etc.

Best Marvel film ever.

You didn't like Goldblum Goldblumming-it-up as Goldblum in a futuristic-Goldblum-robe dealy? That's like peak Goldblum.

#Goldblum

Goldblum was great, I was thinking about the main villain who was a bit crap in an otherwise epic film. Even Goldblum’s post-credits scene got a big laugh from me.

Black Panther has got a lot to live up to. If that borefest is getting his own film, Valkyrie should definitely get one. She was acebest.

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Really enjoyed this and wasn’t aware of the scandal. Stellar cast and great acting, obviously, with Streep and Hanks leading. Considering how timely it feels, dealing with gender politics, political douchebaggery and menacing threats from the White House to the freedom of the press, it’s surprising it doesn’t feel more on the nose. I suppose, knowing schedules the little that I do, it was probably written sometime before Donald Cunt came to power.

I also watched Ragnarok. It was... OK.

It's hard to put my finger on what I didn't like about. I enjoyed the story, I laughed at the funny bits, I marveled at the action, but somehow it felt... off. Like it was a fan fiction that somehow got made into a movie.

It'll be really odd if Hulk and Thor slot back into The Avengers and go back to being po faced and serious.

Yeah I only thought Ragnarok was OK. Didn't quite live up to the massive praise I've heard for it.

Feels like they properly wasted the Planet Hulk story, too. Would have made a great standalone movie.

Edit: I think I'd have preferred they'd gone full comedy, and not had a massive overarching threat to deal with, just had Thor and Hulk off in an alien world.

Hulk, for whatever reason, can't have a great standalone movie.

I know, it's because Marvel signed a deal with Universal back in the day, so they have right of first refusal to distribute any standalone Hulk (or She-Hulk, Red Hulk or other 'Hulk' characters) movie. So Marvel can include him in any of their other movies, but as soon as they put Hulk in the title, they don't get to distribute it, meaning Universal get a massive slice of the profits.

Still feels like it was squandered though.

Edit: Especially because the notion of Stark and others deciding Hulk is too dangerous so they have to banish him from earth is an interesting idea that would totally slot into the MCU, but they just kind of hand waived how he got from Age of Ultron to Ragnorok.

To be fair "funny movie about not much starring your favourite marvel characters" would be right up Taika Waititi's avenue, but that's not going to happen.

I'd love a "What We do in the Shadows" style film about say, Hawkeye, Peter Parker, The Vision and Stark.

Yeah I'd be all over that, although yeah, I can totally understand why they don't do it. I think it probably would be a success though.

Btw everyone should watch The Specials (written by James Gunn of GOTG fame) for a movie that is pretty much that. It's about the world's "sixth or seventh most popular group of superheroes" on their day off. It's fantastic.

And The Boys is coming out, which promises to be all kinds of superhero fucked-up.

Been meaning to read that actually. I liked Preacher a lot.

I must say, I think you've looked better, Grim...


It was added to Amazon Prime today.

Ooh! One to watch!

POTW!