movies

[ghostrunner]

You know, Ant Man was actually pretty fun. Never would have imagined a fight inside a briefcase with an iPhone blasting The Cure. That was great.

[mikechamp]

Just watched the final 2/3 of "Atomic Homefront". It's a documentary about the Bridgeton (MO)/West Lake landfill.

It's equal parts frustrating and gut wrenching. If you want to get depressed/feel borderline helpless watching people in the St. Louis area slowly die, then watch this 90-100 minute movie on HBO.

[CardsofSTL]

I think Guardians 1 is the only post Iron Man Marvel movie I'd be interested in seeing a second time. The rest are all fine, but that's it. They have their moments. Haven't seen Ragnarok yet, which I'm hoping feels a bit more unique.

Dr. Strange was a bit of a disappointment because my hopes were so high - really trippy and visually interesting, but I feel like they could've gotten much weirder. The Legion TV show comes to mind - sort of a middle ground between those two.

IMO, Thor Ragnarok is the best of the Marvel movies over the past couple years. Just wildly entertaining and comedic. Similar to how GOTG 1 was as well as the original Avengers movie.

I have VERY high hopes for Black Panther. He's still one of my favorite superheroes. Also looking forward to Captain Marvel coming out in 2019 - she makes her first cameo in Infinity War I think.

Black Panther looks so bad ass. I can't wait to see it.

Black Panther lives up to the hype I would say. I enjoyed it much.

[Momo]

Black Panther still felt pretty formulaic to me in a lot of ways, and the CGI looked really awful in certain portions.

But the movie is neat, if only for the fact that they got out of a super Anglo-Americanish setting and did something more unique. I hope they continue with non-American settings in the future...

[CardsofSTL]

I don't care about the non American setting or any of that. I just enjoyed the escapism of the movie.

[Momo]

I care. It’s boring if a vast majority of characters feel like they’re cut from the same cloth over and over again. At least BP doesn’t quite feel like that.

[Swirls]

I care. It’s boring if a vast majority of characters feel like they’re cut from the same cloth over and over again. At least BP doesn’t quite feel like that.

If nothing else, I feel that Black Panther was essential as a superhero movie for the same reasons that Wonder Woman was needed as well as the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. There are other races and genders besides white dudes, and it can't hurt in today's society to have movies devoted to those other races/genders showcasing the fact that there are in fact extremely badass superheroes who can stand on their own in those minority groups.

I remember back in the early- to mid-90s when I still avidly read comic books (and had a pull list) seeing a panel with two openly gay superheroes kissing. That will be the next big hurdle that the movie crowd should tackle, although there aren't too many gay superheroes actively in circulation that I'm aware of (if any - I know Shatterstar/Rictor referenced above are no longer around), so this may not happen for a while.

[pioneer98]

I watched both Blade Runners and would like to reiterate what a snoozefest the first one was.

The second one wasn't much better.

It pains me to say it because Villenueve is one of my favorites, but i must take a stern but fair approach to this.

I just rewatched the original Blade Runner for the first time in like a decade and then watched 2049 the next night. They should have condensed 2049 down into about 2 hours and it would have been a lot better. Making it 2 hours 45 minutes was just too long. Too many dull stretches, and a few tangents that they didn't really need.

The original one held up better than I thought it would. It was the right length at least. Comparing how I remembered it to what I thought of it this time around was interesting. My memory of it was more about the blatantly obvious stuff - the sci-fi themes and moral questions it was trying to raise. This time around I paid a lot more attention to how it portrayed this future society. I think it did a better job than a lot of other "dystopian" sci-fi movies in this regard. In most other movies like this, the dystopia plays a part in the main plot. For example, in Mad Max or Escape From New York, the dystopian elements of these future societies put constraints on what the characters can and can't do. Blade Runner is basically a cop story that, aside from the suspects being replicants, could just as easily take place today. The dystopian society is more of a backdrop to the main story than a central feature of the story. They do visually show you what it looks like, but you only get clues here and there as to how things actually work, and how things got so bad. You are kind of left to use your imagination based on all the visual portrayals of it. I don't know if I'm explaining this very well.

[tlombard]

I saw The Post on Saturday. It was a good movie although not what I wanted to see. I was more in the mood to see a comedy or something with some action. I didn't get to pick though.

It was definitely a reminder of how different things are these days when it comes to journalism and how we consume our news. The idea of them running to the news stand on the corner to buy multiple copies of the paper the minute they were dropped off was definitely a flashback compared to these days when everybody would have just been on their computer. All the old rotary telephones and people having to be on a call from different rooms of a house because they couldn't just pop a cellphone on speaker. I'd like to see the reactions to stuff like that from kids who have never seen a rotary phone, heard a dial tone, had to call an operator to find a phone number, etc. Kids these days will never get the experience of slamming a phone down on the receiver to angrily hang up on somebody and that's a shame.

[JoeMcKim]

Kids these days will never get the experience of slamming a phone down on the receiver to angrily hang up on somebody and that's a shame.

Even the few houses that still have landlines in are houses that have cordless phones so even having landline isn't the same way that it used to be.