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daifo

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Supposedly it got approval to play in China then there's a story that when being interviewed for the movie, Pierce Brosnan for some reason shows off a necklace he says he got from the Dalai Lama and now there's an unconfirmed report that China ain't showing Black Adam now.

Meh, these comic book movies are unwatchable these days when the stories splits thru 20 other movies or its just all sfx explosions.
 

MwRYum

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Supposedly it got approval to play in China then there's a story that when being interviewed for the movie, Pierce Brosnan for some reason shows off a necklace he says he got from the Dalai Lama and now there's an unconfirmed report that China ain't showing Black Adam now.
Funny, that they whine about the movie's poor box office performance without a China release, yet the same bunch love to trash talk about China everyday and twice on Sunday.
 

Lethe

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Whenever someone points to Marvel unironically as an example of "masterpiece movies" I lol.

I greatly enjoy hearing Alan Moore rubbish today's comic book film industry, as in
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His own career in comics – The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell are just the highlights – is too well documented, and too long past, to bear much rehashing here. Suffice to say he helped transform the medium, showing a formal command and ambition that few contemporaries matched, but struggled – just as Superman’s creators Siegel and Shuster had before him – with the rights over his own creations. His fallings out with DC Comics (among others) are the stuff of industry folklore. “I’m definitely done with comics,” he says. “I haven’t written one for getting on for five years. I will always love and adore the comics medium but the comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable.

And he now looks with dismay on the way the superhero genre in which he once worked has eaten the culture. “Hundreds of thousands of adults [are] lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys – and it was always boys – of 50 years ago. I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare. I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s – to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional – when things like Watchmen were first appearing. There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’. I tend to think that, no, comics hadn’t grown up. There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they’d ever been. It wasn’t comics growing up. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way.”

He thinks that’s not just infantile but dangerous. “I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.” He points out that when Trump was elected in 2016, and “when we ourselves took a bit of a strange detour in our politics”, many of the biggest films were superhero movies.

It would be easy to dismiss this kind of rhetoric as "old man yells at cloud", except that it's coming from one of the most revered figures in the history of the medium. It's as if Akira Kurosawa were to turn around and say that, actually, Samurai films are just a bit shit.

I've never been a comic book or comic book film fan per se, though I've certainly encountered individual films that were compelling and intriguing. Among those are the film adaptations of Moore's V for Vendetta and Watchman, though I understand Moore himself thoroughly dislikes both.
 
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tygyg1111

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How many folks are watching Amazon's Lord of the Rings? I gave up after three episodes. I think it was too dramatized for my liking or I'm just done with the movie genre.
Ever since the Hobbit turned battle scenes into ridiculously choreographed hype-pieces as opposed to semi-believable battle scenes, I lost all interest in the series.

Best battle scenes IMO:
1 - any battle scene in Braveheart, but especially the start of the film where WW goes back into town searching for his lost girlfriend, and proceeds to ransack all things English after he finds out she was killed by them

2 - Eric Bana vs Agamemnon in Troy (judge me as you please, I still enjoy the movie from time to time :cool:)

Anything newer becomes too choreographed and CGI heavy
 

phrozenflame

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How many folks are watching Amazon's Lord of the Rings? I gave up after three episodes. I think it was too dramatized for my liking or I'm just done with the movie genre.
I'm a sucker for anything war-fantasy-period genre. I watched it all and it really does picks up pace later. If you're LOTR fan you should definitely watch it.
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Any eastern movie recommendations in similar genre? war-fantasy-period genre
 

Helius

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Finally, movie's coming out on April 12th -
Мировая премьера трейлера первого в истории кинематографа и космонавтики художественного фильма, снятого на Международной космической станции.

В главных ролях: Юлия Пересильд, Милош Бикович, Владимир Машков, Олег Новицкий, Антон Шкаплеров, Петр Дубров, Елена Валюшкина, Варвара Володина и другие.

Космическая драма «Вызов» от режиссера Клима Шипенко – во всех кинотеатрах с 12 апреля.



The world premiere of the trailer for the first feature film in the history of cinema and astronautics, filmed on the International Space Station.

Starring: Yulia Peresild, Milos Bikovich, Vladimir Mashkov, Oleg Novitsky, Anton Shkaplerov, Pyotr Dubrov, Elena Valyushkina, Varvara Volodina and others.

The space drama "The Challenge" directed by Klim Shipenko is in all cinemas from April 12.


 
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