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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Lady Bird (2017)

    It's almost unbelievable that this is Greta Gerwig's first directed movie, and to top it all off she also wrote it. The story is about a teenage ( Saoirse Ronan) and many of the challenges of that age, particularely her relationship to her mother. The movie shows Lady Bird as a complex and interesting person, and not the usual movie teen girl (sex object, mobile phone-obsessed, rude and shallow etc)
    The story isn't very dramatic, it's mostly about …. life. But it's told so well here that it's very much worth watching.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    Cast a Dark Shadow

    In this 50s film, Dirk Bogarde seizes the chance to brush off his matinee idol image to play a nasty gold-digger with a taste for marrying and murdering old(er) ladies.

    Margaret Lockwood is unrecognsiable from her days in The Lady Vanishes and The Wicked Lady - I suppose the latter film not dissimilar to what we see here, someone on the make. Though Lockwood is now older, many a bloke would have settled for a bunk up with her anyhow.
    The film is in the same area as Brighton Rock, and seems to be set there too, but it is preposterous, knowing black humour and you wonder that the cast can keep a straight face.

    If you catch this on Talking Pictures TV in the UK, it's worth a look as they've redone the print so it looks pristine.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    I've just watched 22 July, it's a dramatisation on the tragic events in Oslo and Utoya Island when Anders Brievik commited his terrible murders.
    It's on Netflix now and is very well done. Some fine performances and although it can't give every story it follows the plight of one family and Brievik himself, really quite compelling.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    I haven't seen that movie yet. There is also a Norwegian movie titled "Utøya 22. juli" that follow the kids on the island in one take and our Public Broadcaster is making a miniseries. In think it's important these stories are being shown, but I haven't seen any of them yet.
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I haven't seen that movie yet. There is also a Norwegian movie titled "Utøya 22. juli" that follow the kids on the island in one take and our Public Broadcaster is making a miniseries. In think it's important these stories are being shown, but I haven't seen any of them yet.
    It's definitely worth a watch, purely for the young actor who plays Viljar Hannsen if nothing else, I noted that the actor who plays Brievik bares little resemblance, done on purpose I think.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Sir Hillary BraySir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    A STAR IS BORN (2018)

    This is pretty excellent across the board. Great acting from everyone, including the supporting roles, and very solid direction from Bradley Cooper. The songs are all strong and they're performed with appropriate skill and finesse. This thing is gonna clean house at the Academy Awards next year, with Lady Gaga a lock for Best Actress and Sam Elliot a lock for Best Supporting Actor.

    Recommended.
    I'll second this recommendation. I was warned that the film was too long and predictable, but it went quickly for me. The major performances are outstanding. Bradley Cooper is very credible as a boozy rock star, and does his own singing as well. I haven't seen Sam Elliott do work this compelling in years -- he's fantastic. And Lady Gaga is, well, a rare talent indeed, whatever one may think of her art.

    There was one plot element that bothered me (below), but otherwise this was a very good film.
    The one-on-one talk between Ally's manager and Jack near the end seemed like cheating on the part of the storytellers. First, it was a heavy-handed way to completely "villain-ize" the manager, who had already been established as something of a villain beforehand. Second, and more importantly, the conversation seemed to awaken Jack to ideas that he surely would have aware of already. It's as if the filmmakers needed a justification for Jack's final act, but they couldn't quite figure out how to build it up through the story, so they inserted a quick fix. It didn't ring true.
    Hilly...you old devil!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    I'm looking forward to the movie "The catcher was a spy". It's based on the true story of Moe Berg, a major league baseball player and OSS agent during WWII.
    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+catcher+was+a+spy+&&view=detail&mid=2701AA58E4BBEE8B60B02701AA58E4BBEE8B60B0&&FORM=VRDGAR
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    I saw 'First Man' during the weekend.

    I've been a bit of an Apollo nerd almost as long as I've been a Bond nerd. I really enjoyed the film, very good performances and great attention to detail. I loved the soundtrack as well. If I could change anything it would just be to make the film longer and allow more time to show more of the Apollo 11 mission.
  • DrydenDryden UKPosts: 131MI6 Agent
    Hunter Killer

    Well it's never going to win any awards or please the critics but I enjoyed it - the submarine sequences were well done but the SEAL team bits grated a little.
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent
    edited November 2018
    Going Berserk

    It's like the Manchurian Candidate, but with John Candy in the Sinatra role!
    written an directed by David Steinberg, who had collaborated with most of the SCTV people on his own teevee show before there was an SCTV.
    Also stars Joe Flaherty, who plays it pretty lowkey, and Eugene Levy, in full sleazoid mode, much like his tabloid publisher character from SCTV.

    …but funniest supporting actor is actually Ernie Hudson, who would one year later gain fame as the fourth Ghostbuster. Candy is arrested and handcuffed to Hudson, who makes a break for it, and literally drags Candy to his old lady's pad to fight and then get it on, all before thinking to remove the handcuffs. A very elaborate bit of physical comedy with Candy's style juxtaposed with the typical blaxploitation scene.
    (look: someone has uploaded this whole scene!)
    Also Flaherty at one point imitates Candy's signature style: "say has anybody seen my friend? kinda big, and gosh he's goodnatured and likable, with a laugh like this: (insert unflattering Flaherty style mockery of Candy's laugh)"

    As Levy's character is a filmmaker, there a couple of self-contained film-within-film inserts that could be SCTV outtakes. Within one, Candy reprises his Leave It to Beaver parody!

    checking the dates, I see this was made at the same time their buddies Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis made Strange Brew, yet this one I never heard of. Its actually much funnier than the other hosers' movie.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Loving Vincent (2017)

    Some movies are called "unique", but very few are. "Loving Vincent" is about the son of a postman who tries to deliver the last letter the painter Vincent van Gogh wrote before his death. This mission gives him insight into the life and death of van Gogh. This is the first and only oil painted movie ever made. Actors such as Douglas Booth, Aidan Turner and Saoirse Ronan played the roles in a green screen studio. Then each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 100 painters. This makes the movie a feast for the eyes. Many of the scenes are based on van Gogh's paintings. This movie is truely unique because every single frame was hand-painted in the style of Vincent van Gogh, but also because it gives a touching insigth into his life. Please take the time to watch the trailer in the link below:

    Trailer:
    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=loving+vincent+trailer&&view=detail&mid=9C6FFED81071D118A34B9C6FFED81071D118A34B&&FORM=VRDGAR
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    That's an interesting review. I suppose it could have mentioned that Geldof couldn't persuade Queen to do Live Aid cos Freddie Mercury couldn't give a damn about the cause, so he instead sold it to them on the basis that this was going to be the biggest rock show on earth so how could Queen, and the great showman not be involved? Then, as if to sum up what rock n roll is about, Queen is the band that steals the show. And gets a new hit song out of it, One Vision, of which none of the profits went to charity. :D

    Queen is one of those odd bands, like Abba, in that the journos really didn't like them and they didn't make great copy, but audiences did. Backstage footage seems to show them to be a bit boring, if you've been spoilt by the likes of the Beatles, Stones and the Who's personalities, but then again, if you're looking to do a musical based on the songs, then it seems you're better off with Abba and Queen. With the other bands, you miss seeing the band members perform the songs. Which might make an argument that Abba and Queen are better in some ways musically.

    I guess they had to decide whether to go with the debauched side of Freddie's life or not because once you factor that in, it becomes all about that I guess.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    The Children's Act

    Emma Thompson looks fit in this. It adds piquancy to the way her marriage to Stanley Tucci is not working out, and the lack of sex therein.

    She plays a judge who arbitrates in family law. One key case is that of Jehovah's Witnesses whose son is not legally old enough to decide whether he should have a blood transfusion, so should the State intervene to enforce it?

    This is an interesting film and it grips. It is hard to say quite what it is about however. It's not a courtroom drama. It's not a film about a marriage in crisis either. At some points you're thinking, well, where is this going? That's actually quite a pleasant sensation in a cinema where everything has the air of 'one we made earlier, only this time with CGI'.

    Like many such films, it's timeless. You don't get fashions in courts of law, and I suppose the posh rarefied world of upper class England doesn't date much either, it's always the land of Mary Poppins.

    Talking of which I don't much care for the Mary Poppins Returns trailer. It makes me uneasy in all the wrong ways. Should have had Emma Thompson take the lead, though of course she's done Nanny McFee.

    Fionn Whitehead is the young lad in the movie (Children's Act, not Mary Poppins), oh, he's the lead character in Dunkirk. That's where I saw him. He's very good in it too.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent
    edited November 2018
    Gymkata wrote:
    BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
    amazing that a rock bio-pic should be doing so well at the box office, It really goes to show the longterm impact of Queen's music.
    Queen was the very first band I ever saw live in concert. In high school we used to argue whether what they were doing was truly significant or just enjoyable pop product, like Meat Loaf or Styx. I often heard them compared unfavourably to Led Zep in particular, as if it was assumed Led Zep had already earned some sort of position in the pantheon of greats Queen could never aspire to. Nice to see in the long run they've become much more respectable than Led Zep.
    Gymkata what's your favourite Queen album?
    ...Some major hit songs are excluded for unknown reasons ('Crazy Little Thing Called Love' and 'Somebody to Love' aren't in the film).
    it would be very strange to leave out 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' since that marks the major turning point in the band's style. They never really did the baroque-prog-glam-novelty thang again after that. I suppose 'Another One Bites the Dust' could represent that change just as well, but those two songs were both huge, and completely different, they ought to spend time on both, just to dwell on that big change in direction. I think their many 80s hits that followed were less significant in and of themselves, everything they did does not deserve equal weight when shaping it all into a story.
    Mike Myers in a cameo. He's terrible here and sticks out like a sore thumb.
    Mike Meyers did them a big favour by lipsynching 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the first Wayne's World movie, it inspired a revival much like Apocalypse Now did for the Doors. They owe him a favour for that.
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent
    I would probably name the exact same two albums. A Night at the Opera is the more prefect album, in concept and execution, but those two just move me more. Maybe because they still retain a little of the heavy metal roots from their first album, but now with the more ambitious and silly songwriting that would lead to ...Opera?
    specifically: Side Black of Queen II (the all-Mercury side) is possibly the greatest album side ever.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Enjoying an Ocean's 11,12 and 13 marathon
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    Like a good many, I watched They Shall Not Grow Old, a soundbite documentary about The Great War, its USP being that much of it is colourised, and quite effectively too.

    Letters have been written about whether it should have gone with the original quote from the poem, which is 'They Shall Grow Not Old' which has a different implication.

    The documentary begins in black and white and goes on that way for a while, it turns out that once the soldiers hit France, it goes into colour and the screen broadens out. This makes the whole thing effective, because it implies that nobody had any idea of what they were letting themselves in for, and those back home could never really absorb it (the film reverts to black and white footage upon their return from the war.)

    Some of the colourised faces put me in mind of the Italian charlady who tried her hand at retouching a Renaissance masterpiece, and I'm not sure the recruits would have been so tanned back then (though they were outside in the sun all the time, so maybe.) It is very talky, being made up of the voices of unseen soldiers reminiscing - it doesn't distract by showing their faces or giving their names out as the film runs, but I could have done with some silence from time to time. It also seems to shorten the war a bit, implying that after one really horrific battle the Germans were ready to give in, as if to say, well, you just get through the worst part of it and it's all over.

    The personal hygiene issue was pretty horrible and the blokes had awful teeth anyway. It could have done more to explain what happened when the soldiers got leave, it is a common misunderstanding from things like Blackadder Go Forth to think that they were in the trenches all the time, when in fact I think they were there nine days at a time then got sent away to town, then sent back, sort of revolving. I don't know if this allowed them time to get deloused, get the clothing clean, have a decent wash and so on.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The Omen 1 & 2, saving 3 for tomorrow night.

    I love these feel good comedies ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    Yeah, that's a good movie, a lot more raw than you'd think given the Bee Gees soundtrack, but of course back then the whole glam dressing up vibe was what working class kids with a bit of money did to take themselves out of things, like the Mods in the early 60s and glam rock in the early 80s.

    Bombshell

    This is a documentary about how the actress Hedy Lemarr was actually pretty smart and in WW2 patented a scientific invention - frequency hopping, which could be used between a ship and a fired torpedo to prevent the signal being intercepted and sabotaged by an enemy vessel.
    The idea is that the radio frequency would keep changing so the enemy couldn't get a handle on it.

    The idea was summarily rejected - only after the war it was farmed out to a contractor who did something with it, and it went on to make estimated billions. Lamarr wasn't informed at the time and lost out, besides there is a time limit for claiming on money made from patents, it emerges. She also suffered because her Austrian origins had it filed as unAmerican or something. Her invention is also the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

    Lamarr didn't have a great life, she made bad business decisions and choices of husband.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • rebentonrebenton Birmingham ALPosts: 276MI6 Agent
    I would probably name the exact same two albums. A Night at the Opera is the more prefect album, in concept and execution, but those two just move me more. Maybe because they still retain a little of the heavy metal roots from their first album, but now with the more ambitious and silly songwriting that would lead to ...Opera?
    specifically: Side Black of Queen II (the all-Mercury side) is possibly the greatest album side ever.

    Glad to see someone agrees with me regarding Freddie’s Queen II side. I grew up listening to Queen’s Greatest Hits album. In high school, I started getting into all their albums and Queen II just blew me away.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    Sahara, or a bit of it.

    It's a sort of hybrid Bond/Indiana Jones thing while seeming more entertaining than either of late.

    I mention it because parts of it seem a bit like Spectre, in particular the old car in the desert.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    First Blood

    Being a precocious teenager, I knew the Bond films were better than this stuff, offering as they did one-liners, a big song by a big name star, action across two or three continents, gals and gadgets.

    Well, what did I know?

    First Blood is a brilliant, stripped down action film.

    You've got to hand it to the actors in the first 10 mins for setting the film up, esp those in the sheriff's office with their low-level, petty vindictive ways.

    You have a bike chase and a wrecked police car in the first half hour - that's Bond!

    Of course, Never Say Never Again came out around this time. What if Connery's comeback had been like this? Bond alone and embittered, seeing his 00 number usurped by a smirking dandy, he wanders the UK with his napsack, drifting. Then he happens upon a small village, in the Lake District perhaps, or near Snowdonia, and they all go a bit Hot Fuzz on him, cos he's not from round there.
    The sheriff might be played by Fulton Mackay off Porridge. Or Grouty actor Peter Vaughan, esp as they had the same writers as NSNA!
    At some point M could turn up and say: 'Do you boys really know what you've taken on? You remember that Japanase volcano meltdown in 67? Or Crab Key 62? That was him. He's now going to do that to your lovely village... What's more, he has access to some of his old hardware in a lockup near here... he's bound to be back...'
    So the last reel would be Connery eviscerating the town with his Aston Martin DB5, and then Little Nellie, setting off explosions...

    Well, maybe not. Actually, the CIA herbert who turns up does spoil things a bit. With his beret and raincoat he looks a bit like sitcom character Frank Spencer. You could imagine Frank standing there, doing his mincing grimace and saying: 'Hm-mm! Your boys seem to be in a bit of trouble there!'

    I must say, there aren't many drifters with such lovely henna'd hair as Sly in this film. Bit of a day-night thing going on maybe, which you get with Bond sometimes, by the time he arrives back at the town for the final showdown it's dark, mind you, it is Xmas time so shorter days.

    Anyway, this is great stuff, wish I'd seen it at the cinema at the time, mind you, was too young probably.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    I've not really seen the other ones, and the final film doesn't come on telly ever, prob for the reasons you give; its brutality.
    I think the Nap Solo actor Robert Vaughan might have been better in the role of the CIA man, he had more credibility but was the same type of actor. Maybe they couldn't get him.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Sir Hillary BraySir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent
    Green Book

    Inspired by a true story, this is basically a road movie involving a mismatched pair.

    It's 1962. Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) is a bouncer at the Copacabana who is temporarily out of work when the club closes for repairs. He's a first-generation Italian-American and lives with his wife and two sons in a one-room apartment in the Bronx neighborhood in which he grew up. He's a bit of a hustler, very good with his fists, and a racist.

    Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) is a black jazz pianist with multiple doctoral degrees, erudite and sophisticated as can be, but also quite tortured and lonely. He needs a driver to shuttle him on a two-month concert tour, which includes numerous dates in the Deep South.

    The two connect, and Dr. Shirley hires Tony. Of course, at first they are oil and water, but long drives force them to learn about one another. Not surprisingly, they form a bond.

    This is a feel-good film whose intentions and plot can be sensed from a mile away, but it was fun -- and quite funny. The two lead performances are excellent. Ali has a royal bearing that is perfect for the imperious jazzman. And Mortensen hasn't been this much fun in years, maybe ever -- his Tony is a hilarious "deez and doze" kind of guy whose heart and mind have more room for growth than initially seems possible.

    Ultimately, I can't suggest you rush out and immediately see this one, but it's worth spending a couple of hours on. If you're like me, you will be smiling for most of it.
    Hilly...you old devil!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    U - 22 July

    This is a movie about the terror attack on Utøya in 2011. Erik Poppe is one of Norway's best directors and and his approach is worth writing about. He interviewed survivors and involved them in the scriptwriting and behind the scenes of the filming. The movie was filmed on an island next to Utøya. The camera is almost always on Kaya (Andrea Berntzen) who is looking for her younger sister while she tries to keep herself alive. Everything is filmed by one handheld camera, but it's not "shakycam". Only the cameraman, a grip and a soundman followed the actors, the the rest of the crew hid in a boathouse. The director followed the filming on a screen and gave directions to the cameraman via earplugs. The whole movie (other than a few minutes of real footage from Oslo at the begining) is in seemingly one long take. There are in fact two hidden cuts, but only to mask the longer distance from the tent camp to the shore in the location compared to Utøya. The three-man crew just turned off the camera, walked a couple of hundred meters, turned on the camera and continued filming. They had only five days to try to get the perfect take and could not attempt more than one take a day. The take from the fourth day has been used for the final movie.

    The terrorist is only seen for a few seconds as a shadow in the distance. We hear shots from loudspeakers from factually correct distances, directions and rates of fire along with cries for mercy. It was a very demanding shoot for the crew and actors.
    Nearly all the actors are young unknowns with little or no acting experience. Especially given the very difficult job, both technically and emotionally, the actors give us hugely impressive perfomances. The director claims Andrea Berntzen is one of the most talented actresses in her generation in the Nordic countries and perhaps all of Europe. I don't disagree. They are playing fictional characters, but the situations they are put in and their actions are based on fact. The director has been very careful not to make this an action movie or a gore-fest. I think he handled it all very tastefully while not sugar-coating it.

    I have rated this movie among one of the best I've seen this year. I can recomend it highly, but the subject matter is very difficult and it's not for everyone.


    English trailer: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=u+22+july+erik+poppe+trailer&&view=detail&mid=FC4AB59BE8A9BFA9004CFC4AB59BE8A9BFA9004C&&FORM=VRDGAR
  • Sir Hillary BraySir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent
    Roma

    Alfonso Cuarón's autobiographical film depicting the Mexico City he grew up in during the early 1970s, told from the perspective of the domestic servant who raised him. There's been a lot of buzz for this one within the film festival circuit, and for good reason. It is a stunning film to look at and listen to, shot in black and white with many long-track and wide-pan shots, and entirely without a score. It is also entirely without a conventional plot, but rather a series of anecdotes that sometimes are resolved but often are not. The actors are mostly first-timers that Cuarón and his team found through auditions, often in small villages. Wow, are they good.

    Without being preachy or heavy-handed, the film depicts the racism, sexism, class divisions -- and especially the brutally repressive political climate -- that plagued Mexico back then (and in some ways still do).

    It's not for everyone, but this is a true work of art in the best sense of the term. Highly recommended.
    Hilly...you old devil!
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    From the sublime to the ridiculous...

    Rambo III


    Belated, out of time sequel from 1988. Rambo goes into Afghanistan to vanquish the Soviets when at that time they were pulling out of their own accord anyway. Worse, Sly's unironic big haired look had fallen behind to the clean-cut quippery of Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson and Arnie. Oh, and Timothy Dalton... :#

    That said, decades later, none of that irks so much. I enjoyed this movie in a lazy sort of way. It's set around the same time as GoldenEye, or I should say, GE's pre-credits sequence. So it's pleasing to see the same detonator timers in use to go off in a few minutes time, as well as the Soviet tanks - Sly's posturing with a machine gun seems to be used by Brosnan in his debut too.

    The film lacks a third act or maybe new reveal. You might expect Rambo to realise once he's got out there that he's been tricked by the Americans in some way, to give more fire to his ire. Instead it becomes a rather conventional thing - his boss gets held hostage when he's out there, so he goes into rescue him and lay waste to the Russian army. Okay, but it's not exactly vengeful, so it removes a vital ingredient of Rambo's character, that sense of betrayal we saw in the first two films.

    His boss is better in this film than the first but is given some horribly corny lines.

    I think Douglas Slocombe, whose mentor was legendary lenser Jack Cardiff, was cinematographer. He also worked on The Italian Job, The Lady Vanishes and Never Say Never Again.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I expected this to be pretty much a jokey mash-up, and in some respects it is--you've got Spider-Man Noir and The Spectacular Spider-Ham rubbing shoulders with more serious versions of the hero--but it's also a well-written, often exciting, and (surprisingly) often moving foray into the Spider-Man mythos. Oh, it's also a blast. Go see it!
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    Finally watched Aquaman. Not as good as Wonder Woman, but a thousand times better than Suicide Squad. It starts a little slow, but once the heroes go into an adventure to find a triton it becomes a lot of fun. In fact, at times it reminded me one of those old Ray Harryhousen Sinbad movies. I hope this shows that the DC movies are getting in step. . .
    Vox clamantis in deserto
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