What movies have you seen recently?

Avatar: Way of the Water

I found this a struggle to get through, to be honest. You easily could have edited / cut half of the movie, so much unessential fluff. Sloppy writing & directing, unbelievable characters, mediocre to bad acting, scenes that exist solely for the 3D audience, uncanny valley moments galore, 3+ hours to tell a story that doesn't really advance the plot in any sort of meaningful way, etc.
 
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Plainview said:
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - Average

Third act was decent. Great soundtrack made up of 90s hop hop.
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So..... I'm a fan of the Transformers but just never got around to watch the Michael Bay films. Maybe the visual style or direction just didn't appeal to me.

Is this considered part of a Do Over starting with the BumbleBee movie even with several years apart?
 
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So..... I'm a fan of the Transformers but just never got around to watch the Michael Bay films. Maybe the visual style or direction just didn't appeal to me.

Is this considered part of a Do Over starting with the BumbleBee movie even with several years apart?
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Bumblebee world.
 
lowdru2k said:
The Flash - I really enjoyed it. Had some good laughs throughout and some cool action. Only knock is the effects were all over the place in quality, other than that a fun time at the theater.
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Didn't like the first 80 mins or so. Found it boring. The Flash is just annoying.

The last 40 or 50 mins were better. Keaton's first fight sequence was great. Supergirl seemed decent but underused and not much to her.

The Flash stuff is just terrible. The CGI, the character, the constant need to try and be funny. Ironically, the worst part of a Flash movie was The Flash.
 
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karmakid said:
@badmonk what say you?
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Yeah I agree Extraction 2>JW4.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed JW4 but wayyyyyyyyy too long and although I love action, they dragged the action scenes on too long with too much repeat choreography. EX2 also was guilty of that, but once the gag was done, it was done.

For me, and this is only my opinion, you have an action set piece, have a couple of WOW moments then finish! Leave the audience wanting more, otherwise they get desensitised to it, and something that was originally cool becomes not so cool anymore as its overused and abused.

In ex2 I did really enjoy most of the prison escape and the train sequence was dope. Also I am pleased as the directors of JW4 and EX2 were both stunt/action/fight coordinators so gives me more hope that one day I will get to make my own films….😊

Also DayShift on Netflix was also directed by a former stunt colleague JJ Perry, which is a fun action vampire romp with some great action if you liked ex2 and jw4.
 
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badmonk said:
Yeah I agree Extraction 2>JW4.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed JW4 but wayyyyyyyyy too long and although I love action, they dragged the action scenes on too long with too much repeat choreography. EX2 also was guilty of that, but once the gag was done, it was done.

For me, and this is only my opinion, you have an action set piece, have a couple of WOW moments then finish! Leave the audience wanting more, otherwise they get desensitised to it, and something that was originally cool becomes not so cool anymore as its overused and abused.

In ex2 I did really enjoy most of the prison escape and the train sequence was dope. Also I am pleased as the directors of JW4 and EX2 were both stunt/action/fight coordinators so gives me more hope that one day I will get to make my own films….😊

Also DayShift on Netflix was also directed by a former stunt colleague JJ Perry, which is a fun action vampire romp with some great action if you liked ex2 and jw4.
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Well then, guess I have homework 😂
 
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badmonk said:
Yeah I agree Extraction 2>JW4.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed JW4 but wayyyyyyyyy too long and although I love action, they dragged the action scenes on too long with too much repeat choreography. EX2 also was guilty of that, but once the gag was done, it was done.

For me, and this is only my opinion, you have an action set piece, have a couple of WOW moments then finish! Leave the audience wanting more, otherwise they get desensitised to it, and something that was originally cool becomes not so cool anymore as its overused and abused.

In ex2 I did really enjoy most of the prison escape and the train sequence was dope. Also I am pleased as the directors of JW4 and EX2 were both stunt/action/fight coordinators so gives me more hope that one day I will get to make my own films….😊

Also DayShift on Netflix was also directed by a former stunt colleague JJ Perry, which is a fun action vampire romp with some great action if you liked ex2 and jw4.
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Nut job :tounge:

JW4>>Ex2>>>>>>>>>Day Shift.


I judge movies on 1 thing and 1 thing only, entertainment. It is why There Will Be Blood I deem boring, but Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford as great.

And why JW4 >>>Ex2. The JW4 action was more entertaining.
 
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That spoiler no show.

In my defence, that was one action sequence I didn't like.
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Ok my bad.

I didn’t say it was bad, but the scenes were too long and too much repeating of same gag/action. I LOVE action, the top down homage to video games is awesome, but have it less time, like I said, leave audiences wanting more, it went on too long. And this ain’t a spoiler as it’s in the trailer, judo throwing a dude into a car is awesome, but not 20 times in a row. Stair sequence the same, less time would be far better.
Shorter cooler sequences are way better than dragging it out and then there’s the chance of people getting bored and desensitised.
overall 7/10, have a runtime of 90 mins not 2 and a half hours IMHO.
 
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badmonk said:
Ok my bad.

I didn’t say it was bad, but the scenes were too long and too much repeating of same gag/action. I LOVE action, the top down homage to video games is awesome, but have it less time, like I said, leave audiences wanting more, it went on too long. And this ain’t a spoiler as it’s in the trailer, judo throwing a dude into a car is awesome, but not 20 times in a row. Stair sequence the same, less time would be far better.
Shorter cooler sequences are way better than dragging it out and then there’s the chance of people getting bored and desensitised.
overall 7/10, have a runtime of 90 mins not 2 and a half hours IMHO.
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But saying that after the audiences reaction seems almost universally great goes against you.

While I get the logic, and even agree with the thought process, these things aren't rules or fixed. Different things work for different movies. Take comedy in comic book movies: Works well in the Brighter more cartoony Marvel films, but not so much in the darker, grittier DC movies.

Look at all the flying Action in Man of Steel, works well. Didn't work so well in Matrix Revolution, though.

I just don't agree with the idea that something must be this or must be done this way.
 
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menace-uk- said:
But saying that after the audiences reaction seems almost universally great goes against you.

While I get the logic, and even agree with the thought process, these things aren't rules or fixed. Different things work for different movies. Take comedy in comic book movies: Works well in the Brighter more cartoony Marvel films, but not so much in the darker, grittier DC movies.

Look at all the flying Action in Man of Steel, works well. Didn't work so well in Matrix Revolution, though.

I just don't agree with the idea that something must be this or must be done this way.
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No I agree with you, there is no right or wrong way. it’s always open to artistic interpretation.. hence that’s why I said in my honest opinion.
I also see things differently as I work in the industry as an action choreographer.
this basically comes down to what I like to see in a film. Sorry if some of these sentences were a little bit stop start using text to speech while I edit.
 
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badmonk said:
No I agree with you, there is no right or wrong way. it’s always open to artistic interpretation.. hence that’s why I said in my honest opinion.
I also see things differently as I work in the industry as an action choreographer.
this basically comes down to what I like to see in a film. Sorry if some of these sentences were a little bit stop start using text to speech while I edit.
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Exactly, you do this for a living. Where the rest of us don't. So where you may come at it from a more artistic mind set. The rest of us are purely going by what entertains us. Which will differ from person to person.

If metacritic is any measure then JW4 was better received by critics and audiences than Ex2. Not that it should change your opinion and preference of either movie. Just some tangible measurement that elongated action scenes aren't inherently bad, boring, or desensitising....or detrimental in any way really.

No need to be sorry. Just a movie discussion. All things taken as opinion.
 
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Asteroid City - Huh?

I don’t know what I watched. Was beautiful to look at. Really well acted. No clue what it was about. Fell asleep three times didn’t help either, but it felt like it was his least accessible movie.
 
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Plainview said:
Asteroid City - Huh?

I don’t know what I watched. Was beautiful to look at. Really well acted. No clue what it was about. Fell asleep three times didn’t help either, but it felt like it was his least accessible movie.
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Yep. Not even the characters seemed to know what the play was about.

The issue, I think, is it seems to be a mash up of many things. Technology, the unknown, death, government conspiracy, film making, etc.

Very strange movie.
 
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