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Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself
Pure entertainment from start to finish
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Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute. -
Shadowlands (1993)
Antony Hopkins and Debra Winger playing C S Lewis & poet Joy Gresham in a film about their relationship. Watched it with Mrs M last nite.
Didn't think I'd like it as it really isn't my thing, but ended up really, really enjoying it. Brilliant acting from Hopkins, Winger and Edward Hardwicke (Dr Watson to Jeremy Brett's Holmes) drew me into the film and made it's 2 hour length fly by.
4.5 Fern Cascading Style Sheets out of 5 Fern HTML coding errors.
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@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute.If you watched the theatrical cut then the story won’t make sense. The director cut solves that problem, but if you didn’t like the dialogue then that doesn’t change much.
He makes long movies that are a bit like vegemite. Im a fan, particularly of the visuals and the larger than life style he has. It’s the closest to the actual comics out there, much more than the Marvel movies.
But I understand it’s not for everyone.
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So watched a few movies over the last week.
Saw these two at the movies (have vouchers to use so have been watching lots of non blockbuster type movies lately that the cinemas are showing just to have content):
The Little Things: Denzel, Freddie Mercury actor, Jared Leto. Supposedly this is a poor imitation of Seven. I didn't think that at all. I found it a decent thriller, which I actually had no idea where it was going, with good actors.
Synchronic: This movie was ok, but it kind of went in a direction I didn't expect. Starts as a fairly gritty drama/thriller, morphs into a kind of scifi. @R-L Jamie Dorman is in it. I only had two choices of movies to see that day and he was in both ... the other was an out and out chick flick.
These ones at home:
News of the World: Tom Hanks is an ex US civil war Confederate veteran who goes from town to town reading the news from the wider area. Comes across a little girl who has to take with him to her distant family. Typical decent Hanks performance.
Galaxy Quest doco: I think this has been mentioned on here, good doco about a great movie.
A Matter of Life and Death: I've been meaning (pun maybe intended) to watch this classic from the 1940s for ages. It lived up to the hype. Surprised me that it was in colour actually (well mostly) and seemed a lot more modern than expected. It's probably only the pacing in parts that dated it - and the sound mix.
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Little Things: Denzel, Freddie Mercury actor, Jared Leto. Supposedly this is a poor imitation of Seven. I didn't think that at all. I found it a decent thriller, which I actually had no idea where it was going, with good actors.
Think the script for this has been in development since 1989! Was it a bit of a throw back to an earlier age?
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@kirwan oh yeah, the visuals were good. But I'm looking at it from a writing and story perspective, so goal, motivation, conflict angle. Batman's reason to have a beef with Superman was pathetic, and then got resolved super quickly (with safe word Martha, lol) I'm guessing a lot of Lois Lane's stuff got edited out because badass reporter got reduced to stupid damsel getting rescued, rinse repeat. It was such a long movie and yet in terms of story it felt wickedly shortchanged. We didn't need the bat origin story for the billionth time, yet that soaked up a good 10 mins at the start. Also needed far better set up of Wonder Woman than a few random shots of her in a plane, at an atm, taking the tech gadget at the party.
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@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute.I genuinely don’t know how Ben Affleck is a star. He is SUCH a cock, possibly only eclipsed by Shia LeBoef
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 you probably only think that because of all that time you guys spent together.
He never listens and we haven’t even been out in I don’t know how long.
Fucken hell, what a cock.
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@bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 you probably only think that because of all that time you guys spent together.
He never listens and we haven’t even been out in I don’t know how long.
Fucken hell, what a cock.
I’m demanding
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@bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 you probably only think that because of all that time you guys spent together.
He never listens and we haven’t even been out in I don’t know how long.
Fucken hell, what a cock.
Sometimes that's not enough though right, you need am emotional connection too
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Little Things: Denzel, Freddie Mercury actor, Jared Leto. Supposedly this is a poor imitation of Seven. I didn't think that at all. I found it a decent thriller, which I actually had no idea where it was going, with good actors.
Think the script for this has been in development since 1989! Was it a bit of a throw back to an earlier age?
It was set in the early to mid 90s I think, which seemed weird as it seems like it would have worked just as well as contemporary story.
But yeah, probably a bit throw backy.
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@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan oh yeah, the visuals were good. But I'm looking at it from a writing and story perspective, so goal, motivation, conflict angle. Batman's reason to have a beef with Superman was pathetic, and then got resolved super quickly (with safe word Martha, lol) I'm guessing a lot of Lois Lane's stuff got edited out because badass reporter got reduced to stupid damsel getting rescued, rinse repeat. It was such a long movie and yet in terms of story it felt wickedly shortchanged. We didn't need the bat origin story for the billionth time, yet that soaked up a good 10 mins at the start. Also needed far better set up of Wonder Woman than a few random shots of her in a plane, at an atm, taking the tech gadget at the party.
Yep, Lane had more investigation on the Africa incident and ties that part of the story together. In the theatrical cut that subplot makes no sense at all.
The bat origin redo was serving two purposes, the obvious establishment of Wayne's mother's name, but also setting the casting of Wayne parents for the upcoming Flash movie he was planning. That was going to be based on the Flashpoint comic series where in one reality Bruce Wayne is killed in Crime Alley and Thomas becomes the (very violent) Batman and Martha becomes his Joker. It's why they had two name actors.
Also less clear in the shorter version is Lex has been pushing/manipulating Batman for years to make him more paranoid and more violent. The basic plan is for Batman to be killed by Superman and for humanity to see Superman has Lex sees him, which is a outsider/alien that will reduce humanity to his sheep (basically).
The much criticised scene ("Why did you say that name!) was poorly executed but the thought process behind it was sound. Hearing his mother's name was supposed to jolt Batman back his core beliefs, he was fighting crime to prevent what happened to his parents happening to anyone else. Not branding criminals, killing people, etc.
And it was also supposed to make Bruce see Superman as a person, not as an alien entity that might rule over the human race. Could that have been done better? Sure. But it is character development, no matter how clumsy he is at it.
And to be honest, I cut him some slack for how well the fight sequences were done. The most comic accurate Batman every seen, and coming up with a lot of gotchas about people recognising Batman (the voice alteration) and how Batman could compete with Superman.
All framed in a Frank Miller view of the comics.
The Wonder Woman stuff was just a teaser for her origin film. He's said when asked about that is he didn't want to handcuff the director of that film, so deliberately kept her character mysterious.
Probably his biggest problem with these films is he has packed them with homages and nods to the comic book fans (right down to famous panels), he was also rushing to set up a DC universe to compete with Marvel (which he should have taken more time with). The side effect of that is there is assumed knowledge, and important aspects glossed over.
Add in the studio demanding 30mins to an hour be cut so they can show more screenings in a day, then you get a bit of a mess.
The Directors cut is a much better film, but probably not enough to make you like it.
The new four hour Justice League is due next month. Using only 30mins of the theatrical cut, and not a single shot from the sex pest Joss Wheddon. I can't wait
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute.I genuinely don’t know how Ben Affleck is a star. He is SUCH a cock, possibly only eclipsed by Shia LeBoef
Seen Gone Girl? Argo? The Town? Dude can act.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute.I genuinely don’t know how Ben Affleck is a star. He is SUCH a cock, possibly only eclipsed by Shia LeBoef
Seen Gone Girl? Argo? The Town? Dude can act.
His presence is enough to make me not bother
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute.I genuinely don’t know how Ben Affleck is a star. He is SUCH a cock, possibly only eclipsed by Shia LeBoef
Seen Gone Girl? Argo? The Town? Dude can act.
His presence is enough to make me not bother
He was particularly good in GOne GIrl. The director used his pubic perception as a bit of a jerk well.
But if you haven't seen them, it's fair to say you have an uneducated opinion
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Batflecck is one of the better things in the DCEU. He’s just surrounded by poor scripts, tone, visuals ....
I get Binge for free off a mate so might even watch Hack’s version of JL. It’s been a while since the clock stopped with 300, it might be due again.
Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself (2020) ⭐ 8.2 | Documentary
