The Movie Review Thread

The Deadpool looks like a good Blu Ray purchase when it gets released.
 
Only crappy seats were available for Deadpool. So it's postponed and will probably go Monday.
 
Just took the kids to see Kung Fu Panda 3. Not sure i saw the 2nd one but this one was pretty solid

Just got back from taking the kids to see it too. Was definitely good.
 
Saw Deadpool today with the wife. We thought it was a great movie for the same reason that that Mad Max: Fury Road is a great movie: It's an exciting ride from start to finish.

Being a big Firefly fan, it was nice to see Morena Baccarin back on the screen.

It makes full use of its R rating so be ready for all the boxes to get checked: lewd behavior, violence, gore, nudity, language...
 
my 9 yr old wants to see deadpool. too bad its R and has nudity.
 
my 9 yr old wants to see deadpool. too bad its R and has nudity.

How old do you have to be for rated R. Alberta has it listed as 14+.
 
It's definitely not a kid movie.
 
How old do you have to be for rated R. Alberta has it listed as 14+.

Well a kid can go see them with parental consent. I just am not sure if I want to give consent…. Bad language and violence he can handle. nudity and subjective matter of the like, not quite sure.
 
How old do you have to be for rated R. Alberta has it listed as 14+.

Well a kid can go see them with parental consent. I just am not sure if I want to give consent…. Bad language and violence he can handle. nudity and subjective matter of the like, not quite sure.

Got it through Google. 17.
 
No. Not for a 9 year old.
Wife almost had me take him to see it today, glad I didnt. Not after finding out it was r rated

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Wife almost had me take him to see it today, glad I didnt. Not after finding out it was r rated

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It's not just an R. It's a hard R. I'm not sure if a 9 year old will get a lot of it, but they can learn swear words.
 
I'd be less worried about the nudity than the other things but that's just me.

Regardless a 9 year old in an R rated movie is probably a bad idea.
 
It's not just an R. It's a hard R. I'm not sure if a 9 year old will get a lot of it, but they can learn swear words.
He knows those words unfortunately but other content I'm definitely not liking for him... so no he doesn't get to see it....

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I'd be less worried about the nudity than the other things but that's just me.

Regardless a 9 year old in an R rated movie is probably a bad idea.

It's not run of the mill nudity. It's stuff you get online and shipped in an unmarked box type of nudity.
 
It's not run of the mill nudity. It's stuff you get online and shipped in an unmarked box type of nudity.

That's my kind of nudity!
 
Saw the Revenant yesterday with the wife. She fell asleep and I was disappointed with the movie.
How many times can a guy almost be killed and come back to life only to be almost killed again?
He barely stumbles to walk with a stick in one scene only to be walking just fine only a few minutes later?
The awards this movie gets proves that all the awards shows are a joke.....even though I watch them...lol
 
James Gunn (director of "Guardians of the Galaxy") on facebook, just nailed what's wrong with the film industry:

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"The film has a self-deprecating tone that’s riotous. It’s never been done before. It’s poking fun at Marvel. That label takes itself so seriously, can you imagine them making fun of themselves in a movie? They’d rather stab themselves."

That's a quote from Deadline Hollywood, attributing it to a Hollywood "suit." I love Deadline and get a lot of my film business news from them. And I love Deadpool even more - the film is hilariously funny, has lots of heart, and is exactly what we need right now, taking true risks in spectacle film - but COME THE **** ON. That's no reason to rewrite history. This quote has to have been said by the dumbest ****ing Hollywood exec in the history of dumb ****ing Hollywood execs.

Let's ignore Guardians for a moment, a movie that survives from moment to moment building itself up and cutting itself down - God knows I'm biased about that one. But what do you think Favreau and Downey did in Iron Man? What the **** was Ant-Man??!
Come on, Deadline.

After every movie smashes records people here in Hollywood love to throw out the definitive reasons why the movie was a hit. I saw it happen with Guardians. It "wasn't afraid to be fun" or it "was colorful and funny" etc etc etc. And next thing I know I hear of a hundred film projects being set up "like Guardians," and I start seeing dozens of trailers exactly like the Guardians trailer with a big pop song and a bunch of quips. Ugh.
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

Deadpool wasn't that. Deadpool was its own thing. THAT'S what people are reacting to. It's original, it's damn good, it was made with love by the filmmakers, and it wasn't afraid to take risks.

For the theatrical experience to survive, spectacle films need to expand their definition of what they can be. They need to be unique and true voices of the filmmakers behind them. They can't just be copying what came before them.

So, over the next few months, if you pay attention to the trades, you'll see Hollywood misunderstanding the lesson they should be learning with Deadpool. They'll be green lighting films "like Deadpool" - but, by that, they won't mean "good and original" but "a raunchy superhero film" or "it breaks the fourth wall." They'll treat you like you're stupid, which is the one thing Deadpool didn't do.

But hopefully in the midst of all this there will be a studio or two that will take the right lesson from this - like Fox did with Guardians by green-lighting Deadpool - and say - "Boy, maybe we can give them something they don't already have."

And that's who is going to succeed.

Have a great day.
 
Saw the Revenant yesterday. It was long winded and scenes dragged on at times but overall it was a decent flick. Make sure you smoke a little weed before you go in it really adds to the experience and intensifies the fight sequences. The arrows looked amazing slicing through skulls and bodies. Wow. The film is based on the life of Hugh Glass and to a lesser degree Jim Bridger.
 
Saw Deadpool over the weekend. Damn that is a unique, hilarious, badass, hot mess of a movie. Laughed my ass off, so I'm calling it a success!
 
Saw Deadpool over the weekend. Damn that is a unique, hilarious, badass, hot mess of a movie. Laughed my ass off, so I'm calling it a success!
It's such a self aware movie. I loved that part about it. I hope that doesn't become a trend. Because it's a shtick that may become tiresome.
 
Saw the Revenant yesterday. It was long winded and scenes dragged on at times but overall it was a decent flick. Make sure you smoke a little weed before you go in it really adds to the experience and intensifies the fight sequences. The arrows looked amazing slicing through skulls and bodies. Wow. The film is based on the life of Hugh Glass and to a lesser degree Jim Bridger.
Since I'm a grown up, looks like I'm skipping The Revenant
 
It's such a self aware movie. I loved that part about it. I hope that doesn't become a trend. Because it's a shtick that may become tiresome.

Agree with that. It's the first flick I've seen that is THAT self aware - usually there's a fourth wall break here and there, but nothing like that.
 
Agree with that. It's the first flick I've seen that is THAT self aware - usually there's a fourth wall break here and there, but nothing like that.
I had to explain to my wife that all of the over-the-topness was related to the movie knowing it was a movie. She still didn't believe any of it was necessary.
 
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