I really loved that book and I'm very excited to see how the movie turns out. I hope they do it justice. I've heard only good things about the production so far, but I'm very curious as to how they are going to pull off some of the more "elaborate" final scenes. Also, ever watch Bloodline? Ben Mendelsohn (Danny) is going to be Nolan from RPO. That seems like a perfect fit.

No. Don't know who greenlit that. Probably the same people that gave the thumbs up to the awful Clash of the Titans remake and its even worse sequel. Bastards. I think a MichaelBaysplosions version of Lawrence of Arabia is up next.

Glad i found this thread.

I just looked up the full cast of that and wow, impressive, but i feel like those salaries must have accounted for a big chunk of the entire budget. Chris Pratt alone commands who knows how much now.

Watched John Wick the other night and it was actually pretty good. Not too deep, but certainly fun and well-done mindless action.

Also, I'm pretty sure we can also all agree that Army of Darkness is a cinema classic.

Ben Affleck is arguably a better director than actor...

Cool. I mean, they'd be crazy if they didn't renew it, but it's nice to hear they did for sure. Also, very pleased that there will be more episodes.

Anyone else ever see Murder Party? Pretty low budget but really fun film.

It was a BBC miniseries, not a movie, but did anyone else watch Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell? It's on Netflix now and it was quite good, though a bit slow to start. I'm going to have to read the book now.

I thought this new one was bad too but the wife insisted we see it since she liked the first one. I hated the first one too and honestly can't decide which was worse. Same basic premise, but this one has even more elaborate weird shit going on. That doesn't really work in its favor though.

Overall I'd feel much worse about it if we didn't catch it at a $5.50 matinee and our theater serves beer...

Yeah, that's a really fun movie. It's worth watching just for the last 15 min or so even if you don't care for the rest of it.

Sucks that's not on Netflix anymore. I'm not into wrestling either but that was a really good one.

It's my understanding that Alan Moore has always been against almost any movie adaptation is any of his works.

Like V for Vendetta, i felt Watchmen the movie wasn't anywhere close to being as good as the graphic novel, but it was still enjoyable in its own way.

I thought Rogue One was very good. I personally liked it a little better than force awakens. Acting quality was some of the best of any star wars film, imo. The movie wasn't perfect but it lacked any major (kylo-ren-shaped) annoyances and, as everyone else has mentioned, the end is awesome. Also, one of the best done droid characters of any star wars film. Alan tudyk did not disappoint.

Split.

McAvoy does a great job with the different characters. He's definitely the highlight of the film. Otherwise, most of the other characters and the story itself were fairly two dimensional and, as a whole, the movie was very predictable. It doesn't even have much of a Shyamalan twist as one might expect. Still, it's best Shyamalan film I've seen in awhile and middle of the pack overall for his films, so i didn't regret seeing it for matinee prices. Also, there's a very tiny cameo at the very end (before credits) that nearly made the whole thing worth it.

Best part (tie): either McAvoy's acting or the last 15 seconds or so of the film.

Worst part: super-predictable, emo-teen protagonist

6 popcorns.

Yes, yes i did, in fact. Too much x-men and not enough sleep for me i guess

Very excited to hear about his next potential film.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/jordan-peeles-next-project-is-a-terrifying-lovecraftian-1795275560

As a longtime Lovecraft fan, i absolutely loved that book.

So, has anyone seen Alien: Covenant yet? Was thinking about going tonight but what I've heard so far has been pretty mixed.

Saw Despicable Me 3 this past weekend. It was pretty fun. Probably better than the second, but not as good as the first.

I can't bring myself to see the Mummy when there's anything else out to see, particularly because Cruise is such a clown. Perhaps later on Netflix. That said, i hope at least some of the "universal dark universe" thing succeeds. Some of them seem like they could be good.

I've heard good things about Baby Driver, so I'm considering heading to that next weekend. This review made me really want to see Transformers though, particularly because my nearby theaters is cheap and serves beer:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/transformers-the-last-knight-the-spoiler-faq-1796409426

My wife has expressed (mild) interest in both so we'll see.

I think that the term you're looking for is "trepanning."

I agree. Saw this one Sunday and found Michael Keaton to be a very good, atypical villain and the movie overall better than expected. I was worried that the new actor's "teenagerness" from Civil War would be too annoying at feature length, but it ended up being a good balance.

Saw Dark Tower on Sunday. I have not read the source material, but am generally familiar with it and have a lot of friends who are huge fans.

Acting was good, action was pretty good, but overall i found it somewhat vanilla and unmemorable. Maybe if the trailers hadn't been so good and i hadn't had such high hopes, i might have thought a bit better of it. That said, i still hope they make more since there's a lot left to be said, and that the future ones are less bland. One particularly fun part was trying to pick out all of the many Stephen King references throughout.

6.5 popcorns.

I was very excited for this film and really really wanted to like it, but just couldn't. I love a lot of things by Luc Besson and Fifth Element is one of my all time favorite films, but the story was just ok and predictable and the dialog was downright cringeworthy at times. It seemed almost like the two main characters were an unfunny take on Archer and Lana (Valerian was a dick whose only redeeming quality was that he was very good at his job).

Still, it wasn't THAT bad overall. It was visually beautiful and conceptually interesting. I get the feeling it's something i might have loved if I'd seen it first as a kid. Also, i did like it better than Avatar.

5 and a half-ish popcorns with some disappointment-flavored butter topping.

Saw it last night and I'll raise you 8.5 popcorns. Maybe nine.
It was pretty great. One of the best Marvel has done, imo.

Saw RP1 last night and was actually kind of disappointed. It strayed very far from the book in nearly every respect aside from general theme and character names. I was certain that was going to be the case after watching the trailers, but after leaving the film, I really think it only had something like 15% of in common with the source material.

To quote my friend who saw it with me. "It was very Spielbergey, but not at his best." I guess i was hoping for more D&D and Joust and instead got more WoW and Avatar. I understand why they had to go that route to update it and make some money, but i wish it were at least a little less "stylized" or "modernized." For example, will someone please explain to me how every "geeky teenager" in every new movie also manages to be athletic, attractive, and good in a fight? Seriously, a large chunk of the film were these kids fighting/running from "the man" quite effectively in the real world. Art3mis and Parzival were a lot more Trinity and Neo than they probably should have been.

On the upside, acting was pretty good overall (as always, Ben Mendelsohn was excellent). A surprisingly large amount of the dialog was quite cringeworthy, but some was fun and smart, making it really feel like the film was written and/or put together by 2 (or more) different people.

Overall, it was still an entertaining film that served up a rarely-seen breadth of pop culture all together and a lot of fun action scenes. A few parts were really great even (the shining, chucky, etc). Just understand that the target market for this film seems very different from that of the book.

6.5 Popcorns.

8, if i pretend I'm a nine year old into escapist fantasy films.