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Christopher Nolan loves this movie; TV series confirmed for NBC's Peacock Network
GQ interview - Robert Pattinson thinks working out is overrated and isn't doing anything for Batman role
Did Will mention what his occupation was? That was a huge house
There's a lot of cereal eating in this movie
This movie could've been campy, but it's quite emotional thanks to great peformances by Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum
Bryce Dallas Howard will be the director for Episode 4
Turns out Nick Nolte was in the first episode. Guess which character he was (Spoilers)
RottenTomatoes reviews are coming in now (currently 61% with 28 reviews total)
How do you get Negative numbers next to your screenname? I just saw one user here with that
Did Todd himself hold white nationalistic views?
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[quote]And a living and defeated and likely vengeful defeated bad guy from the first movie.[/quote]
Maybe the villain has outside friends pull some strings to get him out of prison early.
And it would be fascinating if they explored the idea of A.I. living in a Utopia and how that may also not work. In The Matrix universe, it was revealed the earlier generations were at first given a Paradise that was perfect in every way (and the Agents were actually Angels in this first simulation), but the human minds rejected it because they naturally knew it was too good to be true. And humans are hardwired for [i]some[/i] struggle, ambition, drive and purpose. A perfect Utopia almost makes humans turn into dissatisfied lazy zombies. Things can't be beautiful, valuable and precious if everything is perfectly beautiful, valuable and precious.
Since the Free Guy AI are now living in a perfect world where there is no danger/threats, perhaps they start feeling a need for some kind of change. To go from a hellhole like the previous one (a GTA world with explosions and crime every day) to a Utopia without any problems, the sequel could perhaps explore the psyche of these increasingly complex AI even more.
Yes, my comment was from 4 years ago and things have definitely turned around. I still believe things were very bumpy and rough for DCEU in the beginning, but there are now some bright spots to look forward to like Shazam 2, Aquaman 2, etc.
It's my personal belief that Zach Snyder stepping away, and a management shift at the top of WB helped contribute to these changes for the better. I don't think it's gloriously perfect by any means, as I personally did not like Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman 1984 (and I really wanted to like both movies), but I can definitely say I feel more optimistic now than I did four years ago.
[quote]I don't understand why it took Gi-Hun a year to touch the money. He and the others knew the risks when they decided to come back to play the game again. e certainly shouldn't have any hard feelings about Sang Woo's death since Sang Woo would have slit his throat to get ahead.[/quote]
I guess we could see it as him having the worst PTSD and with his mother dying (and being the one of the reasons he tried to earn that money), I could see him drifting off mentally and being completely shaken to the core. Also, in the beginning he was probably caught up in the fervor of it all along with the other contestants vying for the same prize money that will change their lives. But then, after winning and being the final survivor, all he sees in that money are the hundreds of dead bodies, dreams and ruined lives that were involved in the collection of that prize money. As he got to know people more, he really understood the crushing loss and futility of it all. Outside of a few necessities like food, he was probably so disgusted at the thought of using that money and saw it all as dirty.
The 2nd season will be very interesting. It hasn't been formally announced, but it has to be a certainty at this point considering the shows massive global success. The director said he doesn't have a thoroughly developed plan for Season 2 though. It may only exist as rough brainstorming ideas in his head now, and the story can certainly go a number of different ways (does Gi-Hun infiltrate it all himself? Enlist help of authorities? What if some police authorities are actually in on this wicked game show idea?)
What I don't get is, that one scene where there was a crazy riot and people were getting murdered...how come the guards didn't care? I thought the idea was to keep things "fair" unlike the outside world (although I understand hardly anything was fair regarding these games).
Because if the guards didn't care that scores of contestants that were so carefully vetted and gathered up can be injured or literally murdered in their sleep on the second or third night, then what is to stop future groups from even greater riots and mass murdering and ending the game fast?
But I guess VIPs don't care about losing contestants so quickly and life is expendable to them, and money is endless. Maybe I've answered my own question.
So the show was so violent and terrible to you, you sat through all [b]9 hours[/b] to the end. Brilliant move.
I went in cold not knowing the twist around 40 minutes in. At first it bothered me how at one point the director broke the fourth wall and pointed at the camera and yelled "Keep filming no matter what!". I preferred it if the camera was a disembodied floating thing rather than an actual person holding the camera, because so many sequences don't make sense if it was an actual person (who watches innocent people get chases or die, but says nothing and does nothing but films it all).
Good thing the twist showed this was all a low budget, live, amusingly clumsy TV show all along. Very clever idea and glad they thought of something different like this for the zombie genre.
[quote]And it was boring too. Also, while admittedly this one was the best adaptation so far (because the others were abysmal), I can't stand Robbie's Harley Quinn. She doesen't possess the quality to make sympathetic an unsimpathetic character. Look at Emily Blunt in Jungle Cruise. Lily is an insufferable character and yet Blunt played her with intelligence and charm, making her tolerable. Robbie just can't, as an actress she lacks this particular skill.[/quote]
That's an interesting comparison, and the Lily character was definitely more likeable.
I will say, I think Robbie can do better, but ever since Birds of Prey, they really dumbed down her character. The first Suicide Squad wasn't that great, but I thought her Harley was very different and more enjoyable to watch. She was actually getting a chance to act and express more complex thoughts/feelings, and her lines weren't all quippy airhead one-liners as they were in The Suicide Squad/Birds of Prey. Seems like someone over at WB decided to turn her into a Marilyn Monroe ditz who never says more than 1-2 sentences as a punchline.
Maybe others like Harley being a crazy airhead the whole time, but I find her less interesting to watch when this happens. And I also find it a waste of Margot Robbie's potential.
I really liked Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn in the first Suicide Squad. I found her kind of boring in this one. And her scenes in that Embassy wasn't even that great and felt too long. Her escape scene was visually nice, but also kind of ridiculous.
I couldn't believe some early impressions said this was easily Top 5 best comic book movie ever, or "easily the best DCEU film" (not including the Nolan films).
Maybe I went in with too high of expectations after the early impressions were through the roof. I know a lot of them can be inflated as they usually are, but I thought this time it would be different since many weren't just saying it was "great", but belonging on Best of All Time lists.
I didn't hate the movie, but I'd probably rank it somewhere near the middle-bottom of comic book films. Ironically, it's technically well made. No fault to be found there. But a lot of the gore and humor was either too much or not very interesting to me. Some scenes also felt too long or unnecessary.
Could also be that -- the comedic timing does seem better in GotG. And funnily enough, perhaps the PG-13 rating helped it, because they can only hint at certain things without being too explicit. Innuendo, puns and layered meanings give the audience something more to work with, if done well.
Whereas the "island of dicks" joke in The Suicide Squad did nothing for me. It was okay in the trailer, but turns out it wasn't even that funny when they expanded it in the movie. Gunn might need a co-writer to rein him in next time (he writes all of these himself).
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