Film you recently watched: part 3

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I've never watched any GoT episodes or Marvel films, nor any Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter film. Apart from an occasional 'What am I missing out on?' twinge that soon passes, I've survived intact.

I also hate going to screenings that are sold out. Noisy kids, people eating popcorn with their mouths open,rustling sweet bags, people talking and/or checking their phones with bright screens. Moving to let people in/out of your row. Paying a lot for the privilege. If there's something I really want to see I'll wait until near the end of the run!

 

We’ve been watching Line of Duty after all the recent hype, one episode left of season two having done a couple of episodes a night this week.

I thought the first series was crap, weak characters, hammy script, too much Neil Morrissey. The second series has been much better, quite silly but much more entertaining.

 

Me too, especially when Pereyra plays. East Wing not so good but it's not Hughes' natural position.

 

The only ones I've seen on that list are the Star Wars ones - I was a big fan of them as it's what I grew up with in the 80s. The rest just make me shrug. As an adult they don't interest me.

I went to Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago for a trip with the family. I was amazed just how many tourists there were, but even more amazed that the majority seemed to be there simply for Harry Potter related sights. Loads of them dressed up as characters and it seemed like the history and culture of the place had been bumped down to second place with Potter the main attraction.

 

Have hated Morrissey ever since Risky Business. He came across as an arrogant and hugely dislikeable person.

 

Palace fan of course.

 

Yep, I knew there was another reason.

 

This thread has reminded me of an incident many years ago. 4 of us were playing a fruit machine/computer game in a cinema foyer and Rocky IV ended and as people flooded out some weirdo shouted excitedly, punched my mate in the face and then ran out!

 

So's Jonathan Pie

 

I watched End Game tonight and now I can brag to my wife that I have the identical body of Chris Hemsworth.

It's a real who's who of Hollywood talent. Must have been fantastic to have been a part if filming that.

Spoiler: Killed off characters

I was really surprised to see them killing off so many characters, although Black Widow is having her own film at the beginning of next year, so it's either going to be a prequel or a Search for Spock type film. Shame to see RDJ will no longer play a part. I loved his character. Captain America is out too, unless he's going to be Captain Grandad. He handed over his shield Falcon. Obviously Thanos was always going to die, but he had his head chopped off, then came back from his past due to a time machine bracelet. In the end he just disappeared, but then so did half the Earth's population after Infinity War, so when a time machine is involved, you can never be 100% certain anyone is really dead at all

 

Spoiler

I 100% guarantee we'll see him again at some point. His younger self still has the ability to time hop, so he'll appear for an important cameo at some point in the future, likely a future Avengers title.

 

Since watching it I've done lot of reading up on theories and possible futures.

Spoiler

To start with, Spideman Homecoming is the end of phase 4, not end game. So there will be a lot of things tied up in that on 5th July and may help direct the future of the film's.

Because of all the timeline variations there are a lot of opportunities to manipulate it to suit bringing characters in and out .

I thing it's generally accepted that RDJ's time is up. Was a fitting end but I don't think there's much coming back for him.

Captain America - I heard there are opportunities to reprise his role. 'Captain America and the infinity stones' adventures was something I heard. Or old man Steve wasn't the one that left but an alternate reality Steve so the original is still out there returning stones. But there are already talks of possible future films.

Black Widow - has her own film coming out soon. Prequel or sequel? Again with the timeline and alternate reality scenarios the may be able to come back. One theory I read was that when capt America returns the soul stone, could that release her soul again??!

Loki - has his own series coming out soon. Loki from 2014 escaped when the tesseract landed at his feet when they tried to steal that stone, and he warped out of there. So while present day Loki may have been killed in infinity war, 2014 Loki is all well and good.

Vision and Scarlet witch have their own TV series coming out soon. So maybe vision without the soul stone was saved in wakanda after Infinity war.

It would seem Thor is now part of the 'Asgardians of the galaxy' for GOTG3, but I have heard that a couple of the actors have already signed off on a Thor 4.

As for Avengers going forward, they are virtually printing money by carrying it on so if they are replacing then it will be Captain Marvel, Spiderman, Black Panther, Falcon as the new Captain America, and the loads of theories about replacing Ironman with an iron woman or the kid at the funeral (who was in iron man 3) being a new Iron Lad.

Marvel have apparently reserved 9 film weekend release slots over the next 2 years so there must be a lot of films coming up. Black panther 2, GOTG3, Dr Strange 2, Thor 4? Captain Marvel 2? Spiderman 3? Ant Man 3?

So seems that there's some exciting stuff still to come.

 

Watched Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile last night. If you had no idea who Ted Bundy was, this film portrays him perfectly. A likeable guy who in no way could have done the things he was charged with doing. It was only the very end of the film just days before his execution does the mask slip. I thought Zac Efron did an excellent job and got his mannerisms spot on.

 

Batman vs The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a great deal of fun.

 

The amount of criticism leveled against this production is baffling to me.

There's a section of the public who aren't happy unless you whitewash history and pretend things are other than what they are.

Bundy was a very real person, and hiding who he was by pretending he was something else doesn't benefit anyone. Real life isn't as straightforward as "the monster is the unlikable ugly one", but that seems to be the level of discourse many want. In fact, I believe hiding the truth is what allows real monsters like Bundy to escape detection for so long.

There's an excellent Bundy documentary on Netflix for those who enjoyed this movie, "Conversations with a Killer". It really lays bare his character.

 

I watched that not long ago. I found it a little spine tingling but could not stop watching it

 

Rocketman. Good film, rubbish soundtrack.

 

The best film ever made everrrrrr has just been made*:

Spoiler: I counldn't find...

...theo original thread where I mentioned these masters of entertainment but:

*Usurping this for that prize/accolade.

 

Cashing in their chips for horror?

 

Watched 'Us' last night.

My initial reaction...what?

Anyone care to explain it to me...no idea what was going on.

 

Cringed when I read he was being portrayed by Zac. He was excellent in the part and looked uncannily like him too. Just showed you how cunning he was and how inept policing in the States is.
Linked with so many unsolved murders during that period too.

 

"Shazam" - I hoped it would be loosely based on "Miracleman"/"Marvelman" (the comics that kicked-off the UK graphic novel Renaissance)... Just don't...

 

Thanks for the memories. Back in the mid-late 70's my first car was a little mini-moke, which I tended to drive around from beach to beach at weekends, usually wearing an old Watford top. Needless to say, this quickly earned me the nickname 'Fleegle'.

Thought I'd left all that behind...

 

Untrue.

Bundy was known to be active in the late 70s. That was before the FBI even had a psychology/criminal profiling unit.

Also worth noting that despite all the mistakes, a complete lack of psychological profiling tools, no national database and no way for police forces to share info easily across state lines, he was still only (known to be) active for four years.

That's pretty damn good considering the technology and techniques that were available at the time. It would be fair to say there was a degree of luck involved, but judging 70s US cops by modern standards with 40 years of technological and systemic advances sitting in between is a bit unfair. It was a different world back then... and it's far removed from modern US policing.

 

Apologies Mr Trump never meant to ruffle your feathers.
I wasn't talking about profiling units. It's how easily he slipped there grasp. OK once from court and the other Prison but you catch my drift. Oh and if you think the police in the USA share information amongst themselves you are sorely mistaken.

 

...in the 1970s. You really think it's like that today?

Of course they share info. It's not everything (for some unfathomable reason the US still doesn't have full connectivity and interoperability across all systems in all states) , but claiming it doesn't happen is absolutely wrong.

In practice most warrants etc end up in the NCIC unless they're for insignificant offences (e.g. traffic ticket).

Some light reading:

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-w...rces/2142-law-enforcement-information-sharing

Could it be better? Sure. The fragmentation is a long way from ideal.

 

Last night I saw the, frankly abysmal, "Spider Man Far From Home" with my littlest one - highly recommended if you found the previous "Avengers..." films too intellectually demanding. But I was very pleasantly surprised to see this advertised in the trailers. As it's got Cameron back on board (and claims to be the equal to T2 - which is a cracking movie) I really, really hope that all of his work on the various "Avatars..." hasn't sapped his creative abilities to produce a heavily SFX-ladden epic that isn't a crock of incomprehensible infantile shyte.

 

Interesting concept for a story but for me it's being pushed a bit too much on telly on the usual chat shows and adverts. Almost as if they're afraid it whiffs a bit.

I shall wait until it's on TV/Sky as I don't have to put up with the general public when I watch it then.

 

Spiderman into the spiderverse. Very very very good.