what ones did you see? 5 & 7 are the best imo.

I understand that as far as the first Resident Evil going hand in hand with the first game but I don't mind that they went off the path and created their own character with minor references throughout the rest of the series.

The first four, as they were coming out.

The arc that happens from 4 ends up seeming like a reboot and they head into a certain direction.

Pick up from there and go forward to the last 3 after that. You'll see that they fleshed out the movies more and changed up their formula somewhat.

I might, probably won't though. Got a lot of movies on the queueue.

Yeah whenever you just want something to take a break from all the regular stuff you watch and want to just indulge in some over the top action. Give it a go.

Y'all seem to think I have a problem with OTT action. I don't. I have a problem with the Fast and Furious films that I've seen sucking. I might just hate Vin Diesel and that one guy nobody gave a **** about until he died.

I hate both of them too, doesn't change how fun the movies are. especially after rocky joined the cast.

They (well not really Paul Walker, I just hate all the media around his death) are actually a big factor in sucking the fun out of those movies for me.

for real though where would you guys rank Vin Diesel in terms of least charismatic actors of all-time? he's literally the worst.

He was born to play Groot tho.

I was going to say Owen Wilson but his issue is more about the fact that he doesn't act than his charisma. I think he very well may be the worst.

agree

and agree

Owen Wilson was great in Midnight in Paris though. not that he acted any differently, but the role fit his personality so well it was clearly written with him in mind.

Throwing **** at Owen Wilson is like punching a really friendly but dumb dog.

Dogs should not be actors.

So I'm watching the film Hotel New Hampshire because I just finished the book Hotel New Hampshire and I wanted to see how it was adapted.

The answer is terribly. Dear god, the direction of this film is truly terrible. The pacing is awful because the script writer tried to cram an entire lifetime into a film AND chose not to show the passage of time by keeping the characters the same age for all of it. The acting is hammy. There are comedic moments which are entirely inappropriate, and direction decisions to accompany them (such as the speeding up of the film during comedic scenes). The relationship between Franny and John feels gross because we didn't see how it progressed; it was just THERE, with no nuance or organic explanation. NONE of the beauty of Irving's language was even attempted in the direction or setting of the film. I mean, with writing like that the least you can do is make a visually stunning film to try and reflect it.

I mean, of course it was garbage. That's why I didn't know a film had been made until after googling the book cover, but it's a shame because it could be so beautiful. In my mind it looks much more like a Wes Anderson film (of course, he could never direct it because it's halfway between the Royal Tenenbaums and the Grand Budapest, so it's derivative of his existing work. Perhaps that's why I read it with him in mind in the first place).

Irving himself said that if he had to level a criticism at the film, it would be that it was too faithful to the book and tried to include too much. I think that's fair, but also encouraging. Honestly, films should be different from books. What you can do in a book is VERY different from what you can do in a script. They're completely different mediums of artwork that necessitate different approaches, and while we all want films to be faithful to the books they came from, it's not possible to replicate a book onscreen. Telling and showing are two completely different processes that allow different liberties and require different structures.

I'm honestly pretty surprised the ****ty 80s version was made given the nature of Franny and John's relationship. Anyways, point is, I still think a stunning Hotel New Hampshire could be made.

EDIT: Also, the film makes no ****ing sense if you haven't read the book. One of the most important things about an adaptation is that people can follow the plot if they aren't familiar with the book. You still have to tell the story, you can't just film a hodgepodge of scenes from a book and hope it makes sense with no underlying structure, character development, or exposition.

Presently watching Metanoia Films' documentary Psywar (The Real Battlefield Is The Mind).

I'd previously enjoyed Counter Intelligence, Plutocracy, and Human Resources: Social Engineering int the 20th Cenutry.

Each features interviews with Chomsky, Zinn, and others on the history of government propaganda.

Not as riveting as Adam Curtis' The Century of the Self but just as relevant.

Spent the day at my wife's parents house in the suburbs, and it's always a massive culture shock because they have a television and several hours of each holiday are spent in front of the set.

I've mentioned before that I've seen very, very little tv after 1999 so it's always overwhelming and often stupefying what I see when I'm over there.

Please understand - this is a household whose ultimate favorite works of cinema are Waterworld and Independence Day. (I am being totally serious.)

So tonight's film was Batman vs Superman, and holy shnikies was it a trainwreck. From the 45 minutes I was able to endure, there were several mind-bending flaws with the picture.

First off, who the hell thought it was a good idea to cast Ben Affleck as Batman?! Or frankly, any of the rest of the cast? Was this a direct-to-video sequel in the franchise? The acting was appallingly overdramatic. The cinematography endlessly jerky handheld nonsense which nauseated the viewer more than it created any sort of suspense. And the storyline was painfully contrived to the point of being comical, (no pun intended).

Each of the scenes where Bruce was using his supposed "advanced" computer system was baffling in that his user interface is apparently trapped in 1996 a la Hackers. And why the hell did Alfred slam down a newspaper headline in front of Bruce to communicate the public perception of Batman? How is a newspaper going to reveal anything of value beyond what his "incredibly advanced" computer has already told him? Is it just the trite old spoonfeeding of familiar memes to the viewer, like using the stock audio ringing of a land line phone in a contemporary film?

And who the smeg cares what the Daily Planet has to say in 2016? The largest news conglomerate in a metropolis like Metropolis would simply be parroting a feed from the AP / Pentagon - why do they have a staff of reporters?

And is Metropolis really a convenient 20-minute drive on the freeway from Gotham? And yet this is the first time any socio-cultural interaction has transpired between to the two internationally-lauded superheroes of their respective zip codes?

Jesse Eisenberg!? (That's really all I have to say there.)

And who said, "we've got two superheroes... why not throw in a third?"

And why did the film score consist of an endless barrage of gothic choral vocals and drumming with no discernible cadence or variation? It's essentially keyboard mashing on a sampler with zero attention paid to plot or characterization.

I know I'm a bit of an outsider here, so I'm probably missing some fundamental social element which justifies this aberration of cinema. I just sincerely hope that this is a fluke of a picture and that the world actually demands something less... sh***y from their media.

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i thought Ben Affleck's Batman was the best part of the movie.

I really enjoyed Ben Affleck and really didn't enjoy anything else.

I think Ben Affleck's Batman was pretty good, but yeah, the movie sucked and I agree with mostly everything you said.

DC movies suck anyway

So basically, **** DC.

Yeah nobody likes Batman v. Superman. And yes, Gotham and Metropolis are in fact oddly close to each other in the comic books.

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I missed out on the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost Cornetto trilogy discussion, so now I'm here

The World's End > Shaun Of The Dead > Hot Fuzz

Literally all brilliant comedies though.

Good grief. I could breakdown and explain every single one of your gripes related to BvS. It just isn't worth it. Not for someone so far removed from media and then there are just the typical DC movie haters. BvS was an improvement over than stand alone Superman movie that this is a sequel to. Thank Christopher Nolan and how he made the super serious Batman movies for why Superman took this approach of trying to be this way stylistically. All the people that hate on this movie and the first one Man of Steel but loved the Dark Knight Trilogy are just hypocrites that ended up creating the monstrosity.

"DC hater" isn't even a real thing, just because every single movie in their Cinematic Universe is ****e doesn't mean I hate them. I just hate their films. if you can't see how they're just trying to rush things out to try and catch up to Marvel, and how badly they've failed in the process, you're the one removed from media.

DC has some of the finest animated films and series ever.

ya but the Cinematic universe only refers to the live-action films... I think? could be wrong there but I'm quite sure.

**** yeah. Batman: The Animated Series is goat.

No you're right. The cartoons are part of the DCAU (DC Animated Universe).

Sure. Just sayin'.

The thing is that DC's live action universe is just starting out and yeah some of their entries might not be that great but they aren't as bad as people are making them out to be.

they're pretty bad. couple that with the super hero fatigue people are starting to suffer from due to the amount of movies being pumped out by Marvel and DC and suddenly it makes sense why nobody is excited for the DCU.

I got superhero fatigue in like 2002.

The only related movies I have seen since were the Nolan Batmans.

I'm excited for DCU. I'm ready for some Justice League action and the Aquaman movie and the Wonder Woman movie coming out next year. Comic Book fans don't get super hero fatigue sooooooo.

Gone Baby Gone. Third time watching it. Good movie and an awesome directorial debut by Ben.

what? if there's anyone that should be tired of all these ****ty reboots and mass production of super hero movies it should be comic book fans. why would you want your favourite super heroes getting the DC treatment right now? im still pretty mad about Suicide Squad tbh.

What!?

Why are you mad about Suicide Squad? The only reason I could see being mad about that is if you are a Joker fanboy other than that it was great!

do you judge super hero films in the same way that you do horror? at least in the sense that you judge them seperatley from other films.

i tend to hold all movies to a similar set of standards, for the most part. Suicide Squad just flat out sucked.