Deadpool was garbage IMO. 13 Hours had phenomenal action scenes and The Revenant was a great performance by Leo. Very interested in seeing The Big Short.
Hey Colt - and welcome to the forum if we’ve not interacted before.
Just seen “Hail Caesar”. Am a fan of the Coen brothers, but this was not their best. Great cast as always. Some funny moments. Best was the final scene, with Clooney’s speech about faith - or is it!?
Thanks for the welcome, Private Panic!
So anyone seen Batman v Superman yet?
Based on the universally bad reviews and my experience of what kind of director Zack Snyder is… this is a wait til it hits the video store thing.
This looks way better. Best Batman movie ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJyp2LFHgk
Unfortunately not until 2017. Crap.
Heard B vs S is bad Hoff. :-(
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Heard B vs S is bad Hoff. :-(
30% on rotten tomatoes, Ben should stick to dramatic roles like Gone girl and Argo which are right in his wheel house. In fact it baffles me why he would do BM vs SM when it seemed like he was establishing himself as an Oscar worthy talent.
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Heard B vs S is bad Hoff. :-(
30% on rotten tomatoes, Ben should stick to dramatic roles like Gone girl and Argo which are right in his wheel house. In fact it baffles me why he would do BM vs SM when it seemed like he was establishing himself as an Oscar worthy talent.
From what I have read, his performance wasn’t the real fault of the movie. Seems like more of a director thing. I just really do not understand how such an important and anticipated movie could be allowed to turn out so poorly. Like, can’t these professional writers and directors tell what will be regarded as great or bad? I suppose if you play it so safe as to be dumb and boring and make the appeal as broad as possible, as long as your film makes money it doesn’t matter.
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Heard B vs S is bad Hoff. :-(
30% on rotten tomatoes, Ben should stick to dramatic roles like Gone girl and Argo which are right in his wheel house. In fact it baffles me why he would do BM vs SM when it seemed like he was establishing himself as an Oscar worthy talent.
From what I have read, his performance wasn’t the real fault of the movie. Seems like more of a director thing. I just really do not understand how such an important and anticipated movie could be allowed to turn out so poorly. Like, can’t these professional writers and directors tell what will be regarded as great or bad? I suppose if you play it so safe as to be dumb and boring and make the appeal as broad as possible, as long as your film makes money it doesn’t matter.
To tell you the truth, I have avoided watching super hero movies for the past few years now… I liked Kick Ass, Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Watchmen, and the Nolan Batman trilogy. After that, I don’t care to give away my money to the superhero comic book Hollywood gravy train. I haven’t seen any X-men movies after the first, haven’t seen Thor, Captain America, or the Avengers for that matter… I really associate this stuff with the mindless comedies big studios would manufacture back in the early 90s, because they were a big draw at the box office no matter how bad they were… and that’s what the super hero genre has come to. I’m glad to hear that Affleck’s performance was not to blame… but it’s still career suicide to take on the risk of these roles especially after the whole Dare Devil fiasco.
I guess I’m just bitter that my 2 favourite comic books growing up (Ghost Rider, and the Punisher) had epic fail movies.
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Heard B vs S is bad Hoff. :-(
30% on rotten tomatoes, Ben should stick to dramatic roles like Gone girl and Argo which are right in his wheel house. In fact it baffles me why he would do BM vs SM when it seemed like he was establishing himself as an Oscar worthy talent.
It’s a cash grab but at least in his case he can use it to self-produce films. He was fine as a middle-aged Bruce Wayne, he certainly had the jaw for the cowl.
The movie was so long, loud and dumb that the blame falls squarely on the writers and director. I’m scratching my head over Christopher Nolan’s involvement, maybe he wants his Batman movies to look better and better as time passes.
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To tell you the truth, I have avoided watching super hero movies for the past few years now… I liked Kick Ass, Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Watchmen, and the Nolan Batman trilogy. After that, I don’t care to give away my money to the superhero comic book Hollywood gravy train. I haven’t seen any X-men movies after the first, haven’t seen Thor, Captain America, or the Avengers for that matter… I really associate this stuff with the mindless comedies big studios would manufacture back in the early 90s, because they were a big draw at the box office no matter how bad they were… and that’s what the super hero genre has come to. I’m glad to hear that Affleck’s performance was not to blame… but it’s still career suicide to take on the risk of these roles especially after the whole Dare Devil fiasco.
I guess I’m just bitter that my 2 favourite comic books growing up (Ghost Rider, and the Punisher) had epic fail movies.
Well, that is just what I have heard or read about Affleck anyway.
I am very much over the superhero craze. Been going on for over 10 years now and of all the movies made in the genre in that time, there are only a couple really great films and a few more than that which are good, IMO anyway. I am generally interested to see how the latest one fares, because there is always the chance that it is good… but I am definitely not going to the theater to see each one.
One of the real problems, I think, is the lack of creative liberty and continuity among the glut of comic book films of late. These cinematic universes have greater story arcs that need to be followed and multitudes of characters to introduce. Christopher Nolan’s Batman films were the notable exception. The world was his; he was free to approach the mythology in his way, tell the stories he wanted and include the characters he felt appropriate. It was all very self-contained and focused. I don’t know how much influence the studio had in making the films, but it seemed that Nolan had almost total creative control, especially as the films went on. Obviously this continuity was a benefit to the films, though that isn’t to say anyone could have made them so successfully. Nolan is a special director.
Sam Raimi had a similar run with the first three Spider-man films. You can argue that he was successful or not, but he was able to direct all three and make the world his own to some degree. I personally do not like his treatment of Spider-man and think his trilogy contrasts well with Nolan’s. They were certainly made in different styles, so there is a degree of subjectivity. However, Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is far more lauded than Raimi’s Spider-man.
The movie was so long, loud and dumb that the blame falls squarely on the writers and director. I’m scratching my head over Christopher Nolan’s involvement, maybe he wants his Batman movies to look better and better as time passes.
How much was he involved? I remember reading that he was, but I cannot imagine why or how much he actually did. Nothing in what I have seen or read from Batman v Superman in any way says “Chris Nolan” to me. Zack Snyder fingerprints are plastered over every slow-motion stylized frame.
Definitely some Superhero fatigue around.
Seems like only yesterday Sam Raimi was making Spiderman films; it’s been rebooted twice since then.
Enough already!
They even cast Ben Affleck as Batman - he isn’t even British!
When did Batman become British?
When Christian Bale played him!
Ben Affleck tells a story of bumping into Christian Bale and being congratulated on gaining the part. Until that conversation BA had thought CB to be American, so I imagine many other Americans do too.
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When Christian Bale played him!
So it takes only one british actor and Batman is Brittonized??
Correct AetV. :-D
On that basis pretty much all the superheroes are British, which is fine by us. The Americans can play the baddies. Actually they are usually British too!
Tom Holland = Spiderman
Henry Cavill = Superman
Christian Bale = Batman
Aeron Taylor-Johnson = Kick Ass
Every Imperial officer of the Empire in the Star Wars franchise… British… we always knew you guys were evil.
And who played Obi Wan? Or the two young heroes in the last one for that matter ……
Us Brits do have a proud history of playing Hollywood’s baddies. But increasingly we seem to get to be the good guys too.
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Us Brits do have a proud history of playing Hollywood’s baddies.
There’s indeed a long cinematic tradition for this sort of thing. In American sword-and-sandal movies, ancient Romans – who typically serve as the bad guys – are almost invariably portrayed by British actors, whereas the oppressed and heavily taxed subject peoples of the imperial provinces are usually played by Americans. The 1950s version of Ben-Hur, with the American Charlton Heston in the title role and the Irish Stephen Boyd as the evil Messala, is a good example. You can see the same principle at work in the 1981 TV miniseries Masada, in which Peter Strauss (a New Yorker) plays the leader of the Rebel Alliance (oops – sorry, wrong movie) and the very British Peter O’Toole plays the commander of the Imperial forces, Lucius Flavius Silva. In that one, there’s even a touch of class structure: the Roman officers all speak in BBC English, while the enlisted men – one of them played by Warren Clarke – have Cockney accents.
I guess that this movie tradition evolved when American casting directors realized that, by casting British actors as Romans and Americans as non-Romans, a nice contrast of accents would be produced: the Romans would sound “foreign”, while nevertheless still speaking the same language (English) as the non-Romans.
The biggest crisis facing American actors today is the influx of Australians who can effortlessly wriggle into leading, big time roles (that many stage-background English actors have struggled with) for the American movie-goer: Mel Gibson is the trailblazer*, followed by Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman, and now we have the Hemsworth brothers. And I haven’t even gotten into the actresses, including Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Naomi Watts.
*in the modern era, Errol Flynn is the true original.
