movies

[The Third Man]

I like the theory that all of the movies are post-apocalyptic legends, so there's no worry about continuity.

[go birds]

ahhh ok. I poked around and couldn't really find any concrete

[ghostrunner]

Yeah. I don't recall the Gibson movies tying together neatly. Or at least there was little attempt to establish continuity.

[Swirls]

And god, the previews were terrible. San Andreas - how many times can this exact movie get made? Fantastic Four - I saw enough of the first one to know it was terrible, and it looks like they're making the exact same movie all over again. Then an awful looking Vin Diesel movie where he plays a witch hunter.

The Vacation reboot was actually the best of the bunch. Looks like they're going for a Gremlins 2-style, self-mocking thing and the jokes all landed.

Fantastic Four reboot was because Fox had to have a FF movie come out this year or their cinematic rights would expire and revert back to Marvel. Marvel is actually in the middle of a huge feud with Fox right now over cinematic rights - they sold basically all film rights in the 90s when they were about to go bankrupt, and now that they are back and worth billions, they've been able to buy everything back except X-Men and FF (both of which are owned by Fox).

X-Men is still a huge sell for them, so they can't put the kibosh on it in terms of comics and such, but Marvel has completely disbanded the FF comic and pulled all merchandise etc from it. They've completely mothballed the entire group. X-Men they can't quite mothball, but they've stopped creating new characters in the comics and such.

This article explains it pretty well: http://www.dorkly.com/post/69649/8-insa ... vel-movies

(This is also why on Captain America: Winter Soldier during the end credits they had to refer to Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch as miracles rather than mutants, because the rights to the word mutant is still owned by Fox as part of their cinematic rights to X-Men, and also why right now Marvel is pushing the Inhumans as another variation of the word so they aren't violating copyright)

[ghostrunner]

I don't mind them trying again but it looks almost the same.

[Schlich]

I don't really care about FF but the tone looks completely different and more in line with the more recent superhero films.

[Maclowery]

Holy [expletive] stains, Mad Max was so entertaining, I can't even type more yet.

[ghostrunner]

I don't really care about FF but the tone looks completely different and more in line with the more recent superhero films.

I don't know. Visually it's a little darker but it looks like a mainstream action movie with a little humor, telling yet another origin story (the same one they told before) and they're fighting the same villain. The character archetypes seem to be the same. The major difference seems to be that they got a better lead actress. The Thing also looks better.

Its not like we need another dark superhero movie either. If it has to be made, just tell a story with them already together. Fewer origin stories in general would be a good thing.

Anyway, it was just one in a group of uninteresting trailers, and then I saw a great movie that made them look even worse.

[Jocephus]

[docellis]

We saw Mad Max Friday night and accidentally went to a "3D" version of it. At first we were like, should we wait until the next showing (which was not 3D) but decided to go ahead and see it in 3D. I am glad we did.

Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron were perfect. The whole theater was freaking out almost non-stop. I loved it.