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If they really want to make a film about an Apple founder, they should really make a film about Steve Wozniak instead...

Crazed Java wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

I'm glad to hear The Last Witchhunter made more per screen than Steve Jobs did.

I like my iPhone but I am sick about hearing about Steve Jobs.

Me to. Not sure he warrants so many biopics.

I find his story interesting, but not one I want to watch on screen. It's been interesting finding out about the history of Apple and his role in it as well as going off to start Pixar, coming back to Apple, and then his most final of departures.

I'm also a technologist though, so his story crosses into my field all the time.

If you're not interested in the history of technology I don't see why you would sit in a dark room and eat stale popcorn to watch his story.

It would be really fun to see a documentary about his comeback. Not about the cult of Steve Jobs, but the individual engineers and other folks at Pixar and NeXT. It's an interesting story that deserves to be told without the melodrama and focus on Jobs. One of the most successful animation studios of all time and the foundation of the iOS and Mac operating system arose out of his time away from Apple.

Gremlin wrote:

If they really want to make a film about an Apple founder, they should really make a film about Steve Wozniak instead...

Woz plays a prominent role in the new movie.

Saw the second Maze Runners movie: Scorch Trials. I have no investment in the series beyond having seen the first. Yellek's listened to first two audiobooks so she wanted to see it.

Young adult post-apoc, but this one had some proper post-apoc to it. The first half had a

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Left4Dead

feel to it while the 2nd half was very

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Fallout

Also Alan Tudyk.

Not sure about the Scorch Trials but I did think the Mazerunner movie was far better than the book.

I actually saw the movie first, which is not unusual for me. I'll still read the book just to see what they left out etc.

The movie was much better. They moved some plot elements around, made the whole thing more coherent and the pacing was much better.

The book is just really bad. I couldn't care less about what was going on and even with the movie as a reference I couldn't care about these characters or what they were going to do. I probably kept at it longer just because I had seen the movie and so kept waiting for something to happen but it was just a jumbled mess. It is a very sloppy mess with horrible characterization and a plot looser than a nickel whore.

I thought the movie had a tighter and more streamlined narrative. Probably essential for moving the story into a movie format, but I thought some of the choices in how they rearranged the story worked much better.

Been awhile so I can't give specifics anymore, that is just what I remember after attempting the book shortly after the movie was in theaters.

Crazed Java wrote:

If you're not interested in the history of technology I don't see why you would sit in a dark room and eat stale popcorn to watch his story.

Having just seen the trailers for all of these movies I get the feeling they're trying to turn Jobs into an Edison or Tesla type personality.

Crazed Java wrote:

If you're not interested in the history of technology I don't see why you would sit in a dark room and eat stale popcorn to watch his story.

Having just seen the trailers for all of these movies I get the feeling they're trying to turn Jobs into an Edison or Tesla type personality.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

Crimson Peak is every bit the loving, unironic genre indulgence Pacific Rim was, but it's so sumptuous, the performances are so good I'm squarely in the loved it camp. It is absolutely not going to be for everyone though.

Oh, didn't realize. Might go see this then. Of course the closest movie I can think of is the Johnny Depp Dark Shadows (which was really awesome btw-I would love a sequel or two-no f*cking time travel though).

karmajay wrote:

I saw Hotel Transylvania 2 with my wife and grand daughter. We all liked it. The new running joke in the house is to say "Blah blah blah" and then "You said it!"

:)

Crazed Java wrote:

Also, he has a real Steven Seagal problem. Every character he plays is the ultimate badass with no weakness. It's not interesting for the same reason Superman is not interesting.

The two movies, Pitch Black and the other one I can't remember the name of, and All-Star Superman, and the animated series, and even Lois & Clark all beg to disagree with you!

I enjoyed The Last Witch Hunter more than I expected to. It's primarily a world building movie that gradually pulls together a blend of the modern and the occult. It reminded me strongly of the works of Neil Gaiman. I wouldn't say that it's entirely successful, and the final act is both rushed and a little cheesy, but I was entertained.

I can't help it, I want to see this new Rocky movie, Creed. It looks like a great twist on Rocky 3, where he and Apollo became friends. Now Rocky taking over the role of Mickey, and training the kid.

That's a Rocky movie? I thought it was odd to see Sly in a boxing movie not called Rocky, "Seems like a missed marketing opportunity there" I thought.

Yeah I'm kind of surprised it's not called Rocky 7: Creed or something. But whatever. Was pretty evident in the trailer when the kid starts talking about his dad being a boxer.

Not a new movie, but I noticed today when looking to see if you can stream the pilot for Into The Badlands on AMC.com (you can and should) that they have four Asian films available to stream. One of them is The Man From Nowhere, an awesome Korean martial arts movie. I know some other Goodjers have seen and enjoyed it. Basically, former Korean special agent tears up the underworld looking for a kidnapped girl.

Another of the films there is the recent Shaolin, which I look forward to seeing.

Stele wrote:

I can't help it, I want to see this new Rocky movie, Creed. It looks like a great twist on Rocky 3, where he and Apollo became friends. Now Rocky taking over the role of Mickey, and training the kid.

Not a big Rocky fan but for some reason I think it's cool they are doing this movie.

Stele wrote:

Yeah I'm kind of surprised it's not called Rocky 7: Creed or something. But whatever. Was pretty evident in the trailer when the kid starts talking about his dad being a boxer.

It's not called Rocky 7 because sequels to Rocky are literally a punchline in movies. They have a reputation as bad, unnecessary, and increasingly contrived. That's not something the studio wants you thinking about when you think about buying tickets to Creed.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Stele wrote:

Yeah I'm kind of surprised it's not called Rocky 7: Creed or something. But whatever. Was pretty evident in the trailer when the kid starts talking about his dad being a boxer.

It's not called Rocky 7 because sequels to Rocky are literally a punchline in movies. They have a reputation as bad, unnecessary, and increasingly contrived. That's not something the studio wants you thinking about when you think about buying tickets to Creed.

Wait, what?

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I'm seeing Creed mostly on the strength of Michael B. Jordan, with his working with Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler again an added bonus.

Stele wrote:

I can't help it, I want to see this new Rocky movie, Creed. It looks like a great twist on Rocky 3, where he and Apollo became friends. Now Rocky taking over the role of Mickey, and training the kid.

As a Philadelphian, we're obligated to be Sly fans, so I have to see Creed (the movie, not the band, oh God not the band...).

I enjoyed the final Hunger Games movie. As with the other three movies, it improves on the book in most ways by smoothing out the rough edges and better dramatizing some key scenes. I do feel like they dropped the ball a bit with two scenes near the end, and the thematic arc of the novel was unfortunately largely lost, but the movies stand well on their own and the final one wraps the series nicely.

I thought Mockingjay Part 2 was pretty much unnecessary. Very little actually happens, and there is little or no meaningful dramatic tension (the dramatic tension that *is* there consists of "when will Peeta's head explode" and "when will the next trap blow up in the gang's face"). The production design was abysmal, especially compared to the earlier movies. The trailer for Allegiant that showed before the movie had a far more interesting looking city, and it was just a trailer. Jennifer Lawrence was completely wasted in this movie, as she spent most of her screen time merely giving the camera dour looks.

Mockingjay part 2 also had three or four endings, including a completely superfluous postscript, which I didn't remember from the book. In fact from what I recall the book left the love triangle a bit open ended, but maybe that is just me remembering it wrong, because that part of the story didn't interest me in the least.

With the movie split into two parts the filmmakers had an opportunity to dig a bit deeper into the political machinations and make things a little more ambiguous, and I thought that opportunity was largely wasted.

Astoundingly, the premiere showing I attended was packed with teenaged girls, and there was no jibber jabber during the movie. I was impressed with that, at least.

That postscript and Katniss's final speech are straight from the book.

Okay then, I guess I misremembered because I thought it was superfluous there, too. It's been quite a while since I read Mockingjay.

By the way, I should add that I did enjoy the Darth Snow moment at the dinner table. I think the movie could have used more of that.

Just saw Mockingjay 2. It was ok albeit a bit slow but I think that was just the nature of it being "2/2". Definitely not a "happy" movie although the end which matches the book does point to a brighter future.

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Glad to see Coin get that arrow to the heart after trying to keep the games going though

Just saw Trainwreck over the weekend with Disco. I was actually surprised by how entertaining it was! At it's core it definitely fell into a "by the numbers" romantic comedy, but it was something about the acting that really made the movie memorable.

It's funny--I'm trying to pick out specific examples to give this post a little more weight behind it, but I'm just coming up short. The celebrities they chose to have appearances in the movie were all great--there wasn't anyone who I felt were just sort of there collecting a paycheck as some celebrity cameos can go.

Long story short--if you like Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, and seeing Lebron James actually be a great actor, check it out.

Bumping that up my list. So far behind on movies...

I will say to give it a chance...in the first 15 minutes or so I thought it was going to suck, but it really turned around.

CptDomano wrote:

Just saw Trainwreck over the weekend with Disco. I was actually surprised by how entertaining it was! At it's core it definitely fell into a "by the numbers" romantic comedy, but it was something about the acting that really made the movie memorable.

It's funny--I'm trying to pick out specific examples to give this post a little more weight behind it, but I'm just coming up short. The celebrities they chose to have appearances in the movie were all great--there wasn't anyone who I felt were just sort of there collecting a paycheck as some celebrity cameos can go.

Long story short--if you like Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, and seeing Lebron James actually be a great actor, check it out.

Schumer's show is really fantastic too, if you get to the chance to check it out.

Creed is the new Rocky. It's just great.

Thirteenth wrote:

Creed is the new Rocky. It's just great.

Is there a thread for that? I can't find it. I liked it. Maybe my second favorite movie in the series next to Rocky. One part made me laugh, though.

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When Rocky starts fighting cancer it made me giggle inside as I thought of all the jokes about Rocky's next opponent being incontinence, etc. It hit too close to the joke of Rocky being too washed up, so what are future movies going to be about.

I saw Sicario at a small indie theater here in town. Incredibly tense and fast paced. Great movie.