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I guess it was not crystal clear the way I worded it before or I am confused. Let me try again: Civil War, the movie this thread is about, is written and directed by Alex "Ex Machina" Garland, *not* by Neil "The Descent" Marshall.

@Dr.Retarded The Descent was directed by Neil Marshall (who also directed Dog Soldiers). Alex Garland is the director of Ex Machina and Annihilation as well as the writer of 28 Days/Weeks later, Sunshine and Dredd.

Ice hockey layman here. I have a question: what is the balance of forces in a shootout? In soccer, the strikers score something like 90% of the time, so any miss or save is momentous. Is it more balanced in ice hockey or is it expected for the keeper to block most shots? :emoji_thinking:

The whole point is that you don't understand what is going on and that everything is ambiguous. While a very different movie, Annihilation kinda worked on the same principle.

We live in a world with Sonic games on Nintendo consoles, so I must confess I am unfazed by an empty shell buying another empty shell. Atari is now a french company, as the french developper Infogrames bought the brand and changed its name to it, and the Intellivision brand has been sold by...

On the other way around, I had the misfortune of seeing the second of these movies (To the swordsmith village) without seeing the show and that must take the cake of the most obscene cash grab in the universe. These movies are the last two episode of a season and the first of the next put back...

It must be very tiresome to be the communication manager at one of Elon Musk's companies... if these positions exist.

They have very little in common except they are both about a boy who lost his mother during WWII. One is about the struggle to survive and the other is about finding a magical land near a mansion in the countryside!

Fanfic.... somehow an 80+ director, that has not made a movie in more than a decade and whose last few films have been mixed bags at best, had trouble to finance an ambitious movie. Shocking! That said, he attracted a bunch of big names for his cast, so it's still a bit surprising that he had to...

That article about the Rock reads from top to bottom as "Some mysterious insiders told us something terrible and when we asked for confirmation we were told it didn't happen".

Because it is? This is from an AI powered fake trailer. Media literacy will be a whole new cattle of fish when AI will be able to generate videos that are not longer distinguishable from man made ones. At this point that sounds like a question of "when" not a question of "if" and the answer...

Obviously it is better if you have seen the show and the previous movies, but can it be seen as a stand alone movie? I recently saw Cucuruz Doan's Island and Hathaway that both fit in a longer continuity but both also work as stand alones.

Not unpleasant but not great. Does not have much in common with the original show. Comedy is mildly amusing but you will not find yourself rolling on the floor. It is supposed to be an ode of sorts to stuntmen, but that aspect takes second fiddle to the mystery. On that topic I would recommend...

Oh! I see what you mean. I am not sure that will do it though. Considering he had to produce the movie himself, I doubt that distributors are more excited than the production companies were. Maybe it will get a broader release if it does well at the Cannes Film Festival though (be it winning...

Somehow these armchair historians who just want "credibility" never complain about the use of modern English language, just about the use of modern English people.

It's based on a book serie by Anthony Horowitz who seems to be a pretty competent and prolific author. He wrote a couple Sherlock Holmes novels with the benediction of the Conan Doyle Estate, so there is that. I recently read from him The Word is Murder, which was okay I guess. Its main...

You are saying this like there are not many movies that are wildly different from the norm constantly being made. Now, some are easier to have access to than others. I was going to mention Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, but apparently it can be seen on Amazon Prime Video!

Maybe you do not realize that PirateSoftware alone reaches several hundred of thousands of people.

The game ended up being a huge hit, but when Sony put the money on the table for the game to get made, it was certainly not a foregone conclusion. It's not exactly surprising that they contractually demanded things that could extract the most value out the project, like having to link a PSN...

This is not good. The initial idea, if well executed, could have lead to a pretty ok film, but here it fails. Let me explain: Having all the protagonists do a horoscope/Tarot reading at the start of the movie could be a fun thing to underline their archetypes and then play with them. Having the...

Been watching Twin Peaks The Return

There is a Lucas Pope game and a Bennett Foddy game on this thing. I like these dudes and I am curious about their games, but not $205 curious (Foddy's game comes with the system, Pope's is $6).

I am not sure there is a coherent "canon" timeline for the Godzilla films, but at the very least this one is set before the events of the first film (toward the end of WWII and a little after VS contemporary to the first film release, so 1954). Why not Zero? Maybe they wanted to leave some room...

Unsurprisingly, when you have a continent-sized country with many different languages and cultures, a very long and rich history in all kind of arts and probably the most prolific national cinematography in the world, the end result is that "indian films" is a term that covers a very complicated...

I read the previous posts, but just added some finer points about the content of the movie and a little bit of nuance: the style and form we associate with Bollywood movies is not true for all Bollywood movies and also not exclusive to them. While it's rare to see european or american movies...

I know you jest, but while the movie is set in India, is written and directed by an english actor who has indian roots (oddly, his parents were actually both born in Kenya) and deals with indian themes (corruption, the influence of sects, hijra, references to the Ramayana), it does not take the...

Mandatory reminder that the only good thing about Garfield is that it allowed the existence of Garfield Minus Garfield.

Directed by Brian Yuzna! That's a name I didn't heard in a while! And to be fair, looking at his filmography, I am not exactly sure why I know the name. I guess The Dentist was kinda known at the time. One of those VHS rental era horror film... He also co-produced Crying Freeman... other than...

This is somewhat competently done, but feels more like a string of citations of other revenge movies than something original. There are buds of ideas here and there, but they never really bloom. I did not time it or anything, but if I had to guess, I would say about a third of the movie is...

I'll bite on that one since it's unbearably stupid. There is clearly a deliberate effort to increase the diversity in the casts of Hollywood movies. Of course, as a spectator, the narrower your tastes, the more affected you are (negatively, like in your case, or positively). The notion though...

The average concurrent viewers is 2.5 millions, but for a live streaming platform to make money the maths are rather complicated. It's all well and good to have more sets of eyes to show ads to, but that also means more bandwidth costs. I am not sure if there is some sort of composing factor...

The main problem is that half the people posting in this thread don't watch Twitch. They just regurgitate whatever pops in their Twitter or their righteous outrage reddit feeds. As a result we have posters who think all IRL streamers are of the pranking douchbag variety and that 99% of female...

Yeah, CDawgVA is such a blight with his cycling around Japan in lesser known places while collecting funds for the Immune Deficiency Fundation :rolleyes:

He co-wrote the screenplays and it's an adaptation, so whatever will happen to the characters in the next movie (if there is one) is up to him really.

Not bad, but not very memorable as I saw it a few months back and had to think a minute before remembering what it was about and that I even saw it.

What is "common sense" and how do you deem something is "overtly sexual" though? The nature of the beast is that rules will be set and then some people will try to explore the limits of these rules, which automatically will result in some back and forth. That will happen no matter what the rules...

Proof this a documentary: aliens computers making our auto-correct softwares turn "pilot" into "piolet". What insidous agents of chaos! :lumie:

Did not enjoy that part two as much as the first part. I think one of the main aspect is that in part one we discovered Villeneuve's vision for the Dune universe and it was literally awesome. This time around that discovery is obviously no longer there or at least not as much (there is still a...

I guess it should also be mentioned that the Jackie Chan movie has very little to do with the original material.