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Pinga said:
ok, i want to see the new pooh movie
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I saw the early trailers and it looks much better than expected. An adult recapturing his childhood fantasy life is hardly original, but something feels right about what I've seen of this one so far.

I'm now hedging on Mamma Mia 2. Initially, I dismissed it as a cash grab, but after seeing some of the trailers and clips, I'm coming around. Cher singing Fernando alone has me interested (she plays Meryl Streep's mother and, hence, Amanda Seyfried's grandmother). Andy Garcia has also joined the cast for this one as well as a raft of younger actors who play younger versions of Streep, Brosnan, etc. in flashbacks. And apparently Benny and Bjorn (ie. the guys who wrote all of ABBA's songs) are involved, which also gives me some hope as well. As long as they don't give Pierce Brosnan any solos. He's a great action star and a good actor but an awful singer (my ears are still bleeding from his voice in the first one:eek::rolleyes:).
 
Okay, so it's not a movie but a short run TV show: Good Omens. What's right about it? It's written by Neil Gaiman from the novel he co-wrote with the late Terry Pratchett. Gaiman is hands-on with it as the showrunner (first time he's showrun one of his own properties). The Pratchett estate's production company produced so they've got a finger in the pie, too. With Neil involved and the excellent cast he and his team have pulled together (David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Derek Jacobi, and more), it looks extremely promising.

Latest exciting news: Frances McDormand has joined the cast. As God.

Not sure how it's playing in Canada but probably on Amazon Prime. They have global first rights, IIRC, followed by the BBC who get to run it on broadcast in the UK after it goes up on Prime.
 
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Went to see Oceans 8 yesterday afternoon. Light fluff, nice cast of women, no violence, some humour, it was worth the $6 matinee price.
 
So, I thoroughly enjoyed (and reviewed on here, I think) both the 2014 Godzilla and the 2017 Kong : Skull Island, the first two movies in the Sony-Legendary Pictures Monarch monster universe. These movies are based on classic Japanese kaiju (giant monster) movies and, of course, the classic American monster King Kong.

Now we've had the first full trailer for the next movie, Godzilla : King of the Monsters. And it looks lovely. They are bringing together four of the best of the Japanese kaiju: Godzilla (everyone's favorite radioactive fire-breathing dinosaur), Rodan (giant bird who can fly at supersonic speed and generate hurricane force winds), Mothra (giant moth with a history of appearing in both moth and caterpillar forms), and Ghidorah (three-headed lightning spewing dragon). In the original Godzilla series, the same grouping met up in the movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, which is one of the best of the original sixties Godzilla movies. And this trailer looks very, very promising. Doesn't seem to be a remake of the Japanese movie, though, but it's own thing that happens to use the same monsters. For one thing, Ghidorah is an alien invader in the original, arriving in a large meteor, and that does not seem to be the case here.

 
Comicon saw a few trailers drop which I am excited for.

The Aquaman trailer looks really amazing.


The Shazam trailer scored huge in everything but the practical effects department. That costume is so obviously padded


And at long last a sequel to Unbreakable!


And having an affinity for Kipling thanks to scouting

 
revjohn said:
The Aquaman trailer looks really amazing.
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I'm not a big Aquaman fan (or DC fan in general beyond Batman) but I agree. They need another hit here and might just have it. Certainly, they seem to lightening things up a bit.

revjohn said:
The Shazam trailer scored huge in everything but the practical effects department. That costume is so obviously padded
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Deliberately so, I suspect. The tone of the trailer seems to suggest that tongues may be planted firmly in cheeks for this one. The lighter side of DC, perhaps.
 
Aqua man ... a creature 80% water? Sounds like a man of brae in matter ... a brae being a pipe or depression in the hard stuff! Could do Orwell NG up ...
 
Mendalla said:
Deliberately so, I suspect. The tone of the trailer seems to suggest that tongues may be planted firmly in cheeks for this one. The lighter side of DC, perhaps.
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Shazam is a "lighter" hero. Essentially it is "Big" or "Elf" in the superheroing universe.

The big red cheese has always had the power of a Superman with the naivete of a child so an origin story should play up the boy in the superhero body.
 
It is said a man shouldn't go that far ... ultimately it will test your patients ... even your anglio? Thus English spin on waiting for gratification of your avarice ... diminishes with time ... so rest it a bit ... like trypophobia induced by composts of tryptamines .. these may be encountered in solutions causing purging ... (check BBC for ayahuasca research).

Tis my topical area for the Dei ... just for the rub 'n ... as the Eire passes over ...
 
Captain Marvel has piqued my interest. While I have largely given up on ever seeing the Marvel Avengers series in full, Captain Marvel looks like it may be fairly standalone (set in the 90s so chronologically before most of the other Marvel movies) and Brie Larson looks great as the Captain. Never thought of her as superhero material, but she's a terrific actress so I imagine she can pull it off. I must admit unfamiliarity with the Carol Danvers incarnation played by Larson, as Captain Marvel was still the male alien warrior Mar-Vell back in my comics-reading days (Mar-Vell does, or is alleged to, appear, played by Jude Law). Of course, some of the thunder of being the first female-led superhero movie of this era got stolen by Wonder Woman but it is Marvel's first female-led effort and opens the door to Captain Marvel being a major character going forward (e.g. she will be in Avengers 4 AFAIK).
 
Mendalla said:
Captain Marvel has piqued my interest. While I have largely given up on ever seeing the Marvel Avengers series in full, Captain Marvel looks like it may be fairly standalone (set in the 90s so chronologically before most of the other Marvel movies) and Brie Larson looks great as the Captain. Never thought of her as superhero material, but she's a terrific actress so I imagine she can pull it off. I must admit unfamiliarity with the Carol Danvers incarnation played by Larson, as Captain Marvel was still the male alien warrior Mar-Vell back in my comics-reading days (Mar-Vell does, or is alleged to, appear, played by Jude Law). Of course, some of the thunder of being the first female-led superhero movie of this era got stolen by Wonder Woman but it is Marvel's first female-led effort and opens the door to Captain Marvel being a major character going forward (e.g. she will be in Avengers 4 AFAIK).
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Careful you don't get stuck in the fantasy! This can interfere with reality as a bump in intensive times ...
 
Was reading an article about Bo Burnam interviewed at the New Yorker festival (this might be video of that interview...it seems similar). It led me to look up his new movie, Eighth Grade. This is Burnham discussing it.

It sounds worth seeing. I tripped across Bo Burnham a few years ago, and watched some of his comedy/ musical/ performance art, and i remember thinking, “This guy is absolutely brilliant and everybody should see this.” He’d already had a following since about 2009. Some of the people I showed the clips to were less impressed, didn’t get him. He just seemed to me to have brilliant insight into current culture and a mind that connects all the dots in a way that was wise beyond his years. He just nailed all the cultural paradoxes of this age...the self conscious vulnerability and narcissism, the empathy and bigotry that can exist simultaneously in one person...and he exposed his thoughts and made it funny...the fears covered by the tendency to be ironic, the atheist who talks to God, etc...and put it into wild and funny performances. He started off as a young YouTuber, then went into stand up/ performance art/ beat poetry musicals (difficult to pigeonhole his work into a category), then went on to produce comedy shows for Chris Rock and others, now has written and directed a movie that may get some Oscar nominations. All in fairly short time. He’s still in his 20’s.

 
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I think this was the first performance of his that I saw...just a taste of his early talent. If anybody can identify with and help young people today, I think he can. He gets them, and the cultural age we’re in.

(NSFW May be cringey for some)

 
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