Good or New Movies Review

[Arkandel]

@ZombieGenesis I have... no desire to watch Aladdin.

It seems summoned entirely out of nostalgia and greed. That's not a combination I'm very fond of - but I'll be happy to be proven wrong.

[ZombieGenesis]

@Arkandel Yeah, I have no desire to watch it either but I have no doubt it'll do well enough in the theater.

[Sparks]

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

@ZombieGenesis I have... no desire to watch Aladdin.

I thought I'd have zero desire to watch it when I heard about it, but the more I encounter the trailer, the more I realize I was wrong. My desire to watch it is not zero.

My desire is, in fact, actually in the negatives; I'm increasingly uncertain I could be paid to watch it.

(Godzilla, though...)

[ZombieGenesis]

Godzilla. Endgame was awesome and all but THAT is the movie of the summer for me. I can't wait to watch it like eleventy-three times in the theater.

[Ganymede]

@Sparks said in Good or New Movies Review:

My desire is, in fact, actually in the negatives; I'm increasingly uncertain I could be paid to watch it.

Of the movies that could use a reboot, the best ones are the movies that did poorly on their own or as a musical.

Beauty and the Beast didn't need one. The Lion King doesn't need one. Aladdin certainly doesn't need one.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame? Could use one. Especially the musical version: Menken and Schwartz at their best.

[Sparks]

@Ganymede - If we're doing live action versions of Disney films that didn't perform to expectations, give me The Black Cauldron. Even adjust the script to be a bit more true to the books.

...so basically just use it as an excuse to give me a proper live action version of the Chronicles of Prydain.

[Ghost]

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Sparks said in Good or New Movies Review:

My desire is, in fact, actually in the negatives; I'm increasingly uncertain I could be paid to watch it.

Of the movies that could use a reboot, the best ones are the movies that did poorly on their own or as a musical.

Beauty and the Beast didn't need one. The Lion King doesn't need one. Aladdin certainly doesn't need one.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame? Could use one. Especially the musical version: Menken and Schwartz at their best.

I wanna see Don Bluth stuff get a reboot/resurgence.

A Rats of NIMH reboot? Live action Anastasia?

Who's with me on this?

[Taika]

Live-action Land Before Time.

[faraday]

Most movies are inherently cash grabs...that’s kind of the business I think the live action versions are as much about expanding to a new audience of tweens than nostalgia though. My kids and their friends are starting to outgrow cartoons and they love the live action ones.

[Three-Eyed Crow]

@Taika said in Good or New Movies Review:

Live-action Land Before Time.

They're talking dinosaurs it's not...

I see what you did there.

[Auspice]

Discovered today that the Alamo app ('Victory' their awards program thing or whatev) gives you a FREE movie ticket on your birthday?!?!

Imma go see Brightburn this weekend fo sho. I fucking love Alamo.

Now to see John Wick 3 (got that ticket with Regal Reward points I had lingering around).

[Wretched]

@Auspice I will try to remember this... Alamo?

[Ganymede]

@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:

Live action Anastasia?

Go see the musical.

The pacing sort of sucks, but the music is good.

I will never stop praising The Hunchback, though. The musical score is bone-chillingly good. The choral work is beastly and beautiful.

[Ghost]

@Wretched said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Auspice I will try to remember this... Alamo?

Alamo Drafthouse. It's become my go-to movie theater.

They throw loud people out after one warning (seeya, loud-ass teens and crying babies!), do a lot of cool movie festival things (I saw THE MONSTER SQUAD there and met 3 of the actors), and deliver beer and burgers to your seats.

[Wretched]

@Ghost

[Ghost]

@Wretched said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Ghost

Yes. And they play movies in the basement.:)

[Wretched]

@Ghost That sounds like a movie theatre that respects it's customers... we dont believe in that around here. Unless its the super fancy dine in ones that'll charge you 3x normal for a little extra food and booze.

[Ghost]

@Wretched said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Ghost That sounds like a movie theatre that respects it's customers... we dont believe in that around here. Unless its the super fancy dine in ones that'll charge you 3x normal for a little extra food and booze.

OH ABOUT THAT.

Alamo Drafthouse has 10 dollar movie tickets, $13 chicken tenders, $5.50 unlimited refill sodas, and 8 dollars for Guinness.

So...yeah. That. Now that I think about it...If I'm paying 13 dollars for chicken strips...

Then they better be some kind of Wellbutrin Enhanced Mar-A-Largo Gold Foil chicken strips with honey mustard that comes from the fabled HONEY MUSTARD TREE ORCHARD OF FILLORY. Shit better fill my tummy, battle my depression, and prove to me that magic actually exists all for $13 or fuck you, I'm getting McDonalds nuggies.

[Wretched]

@Ghost Oh shit, this reminds me.

So my wife likes big pretzels, you know soft ones with the big chunks of salt that can comes with garlic and mustard and are basically classic foods.

Well the AMC suddenly stopped carrying them and instead offered 'pretzel bites' which just aren't the same so she has been disappointed in theatre going lately because thats her 'treat'

Last time we went there they had the 'bites' and something called the 'Bavarian Giant' or something, and they warned us it was 'big'.

No, it wasnt big, IT CAME IN A FUCKING MEDIUM SIZED PIZZA BOX WITH A TUB OF NACHO CHEESE.

This pretzel could feed a family with 5 kids.

WTF WHY?! Why would you sell this as a 'snack to see a movie'?!

[eye8urcake]

@Wretched I need this RIGHT NOW.