Good or New Movies Review

Jaded

@Jaded

Because John Goodman is great in everything he does. He was great even in The Flintstones, even if the movie itself wasn't. I didn't see King Ralph, but I bet Goodman was great in that as well.

Agreed. He was the reason Blues Brothers 2000 was worth watching too.

Three-Eyed Crow

@Thenomain said:

@Jaded

Because John Goodman is great in everything he does. He was great even in The Flintstones, even if the movie itself wasn't. I didn't see King Ralph, but I bet Goodman was great in that as well.

The numbers do not lie.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/john-goodman-is-americas-greatest-supporting-actor/

He's one of the many reasons "Roseanne" is a show I will always, always watch if I catch a random re-run.

ZombieGenesis

I loved 10 Cloverfield Lane. I wouldn't call it a horror movie though. More like a drama with thriller and sci-fi elements. Some great scenes. And, yeah, best part was clearly John Goodman.

thebird

I just saw 10 Cloverfield Lane tonight, and really enjoyed it. I think the pacing could have used some work, but otherwise pretty good. John Goodman definitely carried the film for me, though. I wish we could have found out some more about his character. And the girl's, for that matter. But that's part of the suspense, I guess.

One of the friends I went with, stayed curled in her seat, watching through her fingers, while I didn't think it was very scary at all. Suspenseful, but not scary. Funny how people react to things differently.

Jaded

@thebird

Well I think tying it to Cloverfield dropped it into the horror field even if it wasn't meant to be. I didn't find the found footage film to be that compelling or good even, but it was billed as a horror style sci-fi movie. So any tied in sequels might be thought to be of the same genre.

Bobotron

@Jaded
Wait, it was tied to the shakycam Cloverfield movie?
Huh.

Derp

@Bobotron

Sooooort of.

Revealing how, though, would be spoilers.

ThatGuyThere

Yeah I have not seen it yet but I had heard they were connected.
Honestly the connection makes me less likely to see it rather there more.

Jaded

The first trailer for Rogue One came out. I found it to be a far better introduction to this Starwars movie than the first trailer to The Force Awakens.

I have a strong feeling it is going to be a better movie too.

Ganymede

@Jaded said:

The first trailer for Rogue One came out. I found it to be a far better introduction to this Starwars movie than the first trailer to The Force Awakens.

I have a strong feeling it is going to be a better movie too.

I think this is mostly because they can shed themselves of the "Star Wars" mythology here. The series is an off-shoot from canon, which means you can go in a whole lot of other directions that The Force Awakens really could not.

I mean, Star Wars: Rebels is pretty good for a kid's show, whereas I'm still meh about Clone Wars.

Arkandel

@Ganymede You know Darth Vader is going to be in Rogue One, right?

Ganymede

@Arkandel said:

You know Darth Vader is going to be in Rogue One, right?

Yeah, but the story ain't really about his family.

Jaded

Ratchet and Clank Fans, avoid the movie. It's just the cut scenes from the new game. Unless you won't play the game...then it may be worth it.

Arkandel

Spoilers free.

Captain America: Civil War was easily the best Marvel movie I've seen. Easily.

For starters it was the first superhero film which juggled so many characters successfully and did them justice at the same time; they all had a place, they had distinct personalities and they were believable - which I feel Age of Ultron failed to do, at least for the newcomers.

For another... well, wow. The whole film worked, beginning to end. The script was good, robust and funny despite the dramatic material. Spidey was awesome.

Coin

Black Panther and Spidey were the stand-outs. Ant-Man brought the hilarity.

I'm going for a second time today.

Vorpal

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

it was the first superhero film which juggled so many characters successfully and did them justice at the same time

Man, if this wasn't Disney/Marvel's "Watch how you do it right " to DC/Warner Brothers, I don't know what it was. Dawn of Justice tried to juggle three characters and two villains and it failed so hard...

Disney having the Force Awakens, Zootopia, Jungle Book and now Civil War up there in the 90%+ range versus WB's Pan and Dawn of Justice hovering around the 28% mark (WB was counting on Pan to be its new Harry Potter, and DoJ is their cinematic DCU kickoff) .... it's going to be a very tough year for WB/DC if Suicide Squad doesn't perform well. Pan was a financial flop and Dawn of Justice under-performed by WB standards, failing to break the billion.

I had hopes for "Wonder Woman", seeing how Jenkins gets the character... but the writer assigned for that is the man behind such gems as "Pan" and "Ice Age 4," and it is being produced by Snyder, so... abandon all hope. Gadot was pretty fantastic in her brief appearance, and Jenkins loves the character, but a terrible scriptwriter and the taint of Snyder may doom my favorite heroine

Jaded

In non-superhero related movies. I finally got to see 10 Cloverfield Lane and I was impressed by it more than I thought I would be.

Vorpal

@Jaded That's one of the ones I missed, but I've heard great things about it.

Arkandel

@Vorpal What I'm not sure about is how they'll launch the next Avengers movie without having to spend the first hour dealing with the fallout of this one.

Spidey and Thor 3 are coming next year and Black Panther is followed closely by Avengers: Infinity War in 2018, and only the Hulk is part of Thor 3... so unless Black Panther is is, it's hard to see it.

But since the Russo brothers are also in charge of Avengers now I have a lot of faith in them to pull it off.

Vorpal

@Arkandel Pretty much. Although I am a DC fan at heart and will always be, right now I trust Marvsney's vision for its cinematic universe over WarDc.
And to think that this could have been DC, when Disney was eyeing it for purchase way back in the day... sigh

Ah well. Maybe one of the next Marvel phases will include Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel or the Young Avengers. That would be cool, especially if they have a good America Chavez.