Be Excellent To Each Other

Oh, you mean like The Lego Movie or Finding Nemo or The Incredibles or Frozen or Frankenweenie or Life of Pi or We Bought A Zoo or...?

"Inspired by" good, "rehash" bad. Got it!

I think the girls will remember the 2016 Ghostbusters. Anyway, what's your problem here? That modern cookie-cutter Hollywood isn't continuing to make the exact sort of films you nostalgically remember from your youth? Are you angry at there being too many remakes or not enough remakes?

Also: you're not a kid growing up now, so you're not seeing today's movies through kid's eyes, so you don't really know what kids will look back on fondly. Christ, the kids don't know yet either. Your parents and grandparents probably don't have the same affection for BTTF, Indiana Jones, or Ghostbusters that people our age do, either.

Yeah that's why I said that it's obviously not for me to say. But it just feels as though they have got so good at laser targeting films to make massive returns that there are very few total flops, objectively awful films but also as a consequence fewer stand out ones that kick off their own mini-genres.

I approached the new Star Wars in this way... Quickly realising that I wasn’t the target audience helped greatly with my enjoyment of the film.

I watched Jason Bourne last night. Decidedly average.

Way too much shaky cam and basically the same plot of all other Bourne Films only with more surveillance (but only when the plot needs it)

The message on privacy vs security is in there but it's touched upon at times but never properly explored.

I have been very excited for a long time that one of my all-time favourite books/trilogies are being turned into a film/films. That being Patrick Ness's "The Knife of Never LettingGo", the first book of the Chaos Walking trilogy.

I am now even more excited that Daisy Ridley has signed on to star in it. Yay!

I didn't like the TV show but I left partly due to not really having as much time as I originally thought. But even then the 30 minutes I sat through were pretty terrible, much like the TV show. Though Joanna Lumley remains brilliant.

I saw Finding Dory the other day. It's pretty good. The sploopy octopus kind of steals the show. Still pretty clever story about living with disability and finding what strengths you do have.

Is finding Dory sad?

Is Julia Sawalha still incredibly sexy as Saffy? So bookish and sexy and Saffyish.

Yes and no.

Lots of sad moments as certain events are related, that brought a tear to my eye.

Ultimately though plenty of sweetness and happy.

Plus it has Idris Elba and Dominic West as sealions, which is frankly worth the admission alone.

She doesn't seem to be ageing. Creepy.

so very much

I went to see Star Trek last night. I really enjoyed it, I like how it focused on there crew rather than the ship.

I'm not very good with sentimental things. I can't watch the first Finding Nemo film because I find it too upsetting, and then I end up thinking of it years later and getting upset.

I love Idris Elba, so I'll look for a clip of that bit.

I watched a clip. Nemo is in it. He's upset. Idris Elba is a sea lion but he sounds so much like Idris Elba always does that I'm just imagining him laying on that rock instead of the sealion.

Obviously he's naked.

ONLY BECAUSE SEALIONS DON'T WEAR CLOTHES.

It's more upsetting than Nemo, so I would avoid it.

Good film though!

I saw World War Z last night. It started off with some promise then quickly turned into a parody of itself. Pretty pap I reckon.

Did you watch the proper version of it?

The PG-13 version, which was released in cinemas as a 12 over here I think, had an astonishing number of changes made to bring it in at that rating.

The UNRATED or DIRECTOR'S CUT or HARDER VERSION or TOO HOT FOR CINEMA or BRUTALIX UNLIMITED or whatever the fuck they called it, doesn't fix the inherent problems the film has, but does at least tip it over into being a proper zombie style film. I'm not sure if the neutered version was even released on DVD/Blu-Ray or not.

There's no single thing that's different about the proper version, more a cumulative effect over the course of the running time that much improves the 'feel' of it.

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=594947

New Rogue one trailer

Lobster - I half watched this. It seemed really good. You have 45 days to find love or you get turned into an animal.

Watched Suicide Squad last night. It was a fun action flick, and they tried to allude to some deeper stuff with Harley, but overall nowhere near my Top 5 comic book movies/series. Or Top 10 for that matter. But it's fun.

Should have also been called "Deadshot is fucking awesome, also Harley Quinn does some neat stuff too and we zoom in on her butt in short-shorts every 5 seconds, oh and don't watch it for Jared Leto he's in it for like 10 minutes". Not as catchy though.

No, but with that title I'll probably go watch it. It was otherwise on my 'meh' list.

We all went to watch Finding Dory as part of Ms Z's birthday outing yesterday.

I really enjoyed it, loved Hank the cranky Octopus Mrs Z fell asleep for 10 minutes and Master Z only needed one toilet run. If you like Pixar films you (and your kids) won't be disappointed.

The short film "Piper" that was on before it started was beautiful.

That's a pretty short film.

Funny, the screenplay was exactly 1000 words

Rogue One continues to look utterly, utterly amazeballs.


In other news, Transformers Age of Extinction is actually watchable.

Oh, another Death Star. That's the last thing they'll expect.

Not sure if or not but this is set *before* a new hope - its the story of them stealing the deathstar plans that end up in R2D2

Looking forward to the "many bothans" scene

Wrong film Dave, that was for the Death Star mk 2.

In other other news, it turns out transformers age of extinction was pants

It's a mini adventure!

When I was a kid I heard it as 'Bothams' and wondered why the rebellion was cloning a boring, instantly forgettable cricketer of whom it is impossible to pay attention to for spy work.

No, wait...

Hercules is pretty watchable. The Rock is always good quality

He's so big

Just watched The Nice Guys, the latest Shane Black movie (he wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and wrote many great films.) It's fantastic, very much a spiritual sequel to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Interest piqued.

Rewatching Kingsman tonight, and it's still great fun.

The Nice Guys is pretty good but it's no where near as good as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

You shouldn't watch The Little Prince on Netflix unless you NEVER WANT TO STOP CRYING.

Oh my god.

I have no idea why this film got slated/lukewarm reviews, but The Lone Ranger is absolutely brilliant. BRILLIANT.

are you sure?

Also, unrelatedly, I tend to listen to film soundtracks. There are a couple of tracks from the How To Train Your Dragon soundtrack that will, without fail, make me cry. It's weird.

BRILLIANT

just checking

Is there an echo in here?

That's the problem with an all encompassing movie topic.