Amph At The Movies (film discussion thread)

but it only came out 4 days ago .

 

Over 4 days, Rogue One made $170 million. Solo has made $100 million.

That’s not bad, considering Rogue One went on to make over $1 billion. Solo could definitely reach $800 million + at this point.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.vulture.com/2018/05/zack-snyder-next-movie-ayn-rand-fountainhead.html

Zack Snyder doing Ayn Rand is the perfect marriage of an awful director and equally awful source material.

 

I cannot imagine why he wants to do this. It's so far outside of his wheelhouse it's ridiculous. Remember when Scorsese did The Age of Innocence? That barely registers as a blip compared to this.

 

Because he’s a libertarian wingnut pursuing a passion project.

 

scorsese actually has a pretty diverse filmography imo.

 

Maleficent sequel

I heard about this on the radio but forgot until now. I'm sold. I just hope to see Maleficent make the big transformation this time.

 

I don't see what they can do after the first one. I mean, the first one was basically the story of Sleeping Beauty, even with the twists and character changes.

 

In the sequel she needs to enter a breakdance contest to save the local community center from evil shopping mall developers.

 

The synopsis of Maleficent II smells like Avatar 2. Right now, I have no real interest in seeing this movie. But, I may see it if Maleficent turns into a dragon for most of the film and fights some ice zombies.


In other news, Jaime Foxx has been cast as Al Simmons, aka Spawn. I think this is some good casting to get a well known actor in the role. However, I'm still iffy on the "Jaws" approach to the film, meaning the character of Spawn will be featured the same way the shark in "Jaws" was, and that's just showing partial images of the creature and mostly focusing on the effects thereof.

However, I have some hopes for the film as it's a Blumhouse production that usually puts out quality budget films. And as a Blumhouse production, I would expect the film to lean more on the horror elements of the character, which should give Spawn the differential distinction from other super heroes.

 

Edit: The Navy and the Air Force being well being the Navy and Air Forice decided to have a twitter war over the pic:

http://www.wgal.com/article/tom-cruise-sparks-top-gun-feud-between-us-air-force-navy/20981403

 

I eagerly await this movie.

 

Yeah, he totally does. But it was kind of common to hear people talk about what an outlier Age of Innocence was back when it came out. But, yeah, you wouldn't think the same guy made The Last Temptation of Christ & Taxi Driver & Age of Innocence. And what's so great is that he's not backing down. He did Wolf of Wall Street and Silence back to back and I can't imagine two more different movies and I gave them both four stars.

I am expecting to actually cry when he dies. No one's ever been like him really, but he's also the last of a breed of filmmakers who were interested in filtering a new artistic vision through a classic Hollywood aesthetic. I remember walking out of Silence and thinking, "No one else would have ever made that movie." Once Scorsese's gone, there's a whole kind of film that is just never going to be made anymore. And it somehow has nothing to do with genre facility; it's just . . . a philosophy of story-telling and filmmaking that is represented nowhere else.

 

I'm intrigued if they stick to the source material and or elevate it.

 

Movies are so devoid of color now. This especially in comparison to the original.

That being said I like it. He definitely has the tone down.

 

It's really interesting how much thematic overlap this looks like it's going to have with what we saw of The New Mutants. Both got started in the pipeline over at Fox relatively close together. They would have actually been released only 4 months apart if Fox had stuck with NM's original date. I have to wonder if someone inside of Fox finally realizing that the two movies had too much in common played a factor in sending NM back to the drawing board or at least made the significant delay a little more appealing.

 

Like It. Also love Starscream transforming like he did in he G1 days with the colors and more accurate look.

 

When the hell did they make Bumblebee movie?? How did I miss that being in production.

 

Yes,Yes, A Thousand Times Yes

 

I like how the aging is more subtle on screen than on the poster. It looks like it should crumble to dust any second and it's only through the spirit of Halloween that its staying on the boogeyman's face.