Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 29, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted May 29, 2019 4 minutes ago, johnnyboy said: Godzilla: King of the Monsters Two solid hours of massive beasties knocking the shit out of each other. Adjust your excitement accordingly as to how appealing that sounds. Worked for me, with all the monsters that I could ever have wanted to see. Does suffer a bit from "wow, another lucky escape for our heroes" but then Godzilla appeared again and I didn't care about the number of black cats they must have skinned for that amount of good fortune. I watched the first one a couple of nights ago and there wasn't nearly of the monsters fighting stuff, so this already seems like an improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 The hacks at Empire gave it one star so im all in on Godzilla. Still, if the third doesn't have Godzuki then im done with the Monsterverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted May 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted May 29, 2019 I'm seeing Rocketman tomorrow, but I ummed and ahhed about seeing Godzilla instead because I really like Thomas Middleditch. It does look a bit shite though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 29, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted May 29, 2019 The Secret Life of Pets 2 was odd because it felt like three films stitched together. It was alright though and inoffensive, with Harrison Ford stealing the show, as expected. Just watched Lars and the Real Girl, which is absolutely lovely. Ryan Gosling's such an interesting and good actor when he's not in Nicolas Winding Refn films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted May 30, 2019 Awards Moderator Share Posted May 30, 2019 Love ‘Lars and the Real Girl’, Gosling’s best performance for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted May 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted May 30, 2019 I do find it funny that they're trying to make the Monsterverse a thing, yet spaffed half the big names into a single film. Glorious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 30, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted May 30, 2019 This is what MCU and DCU are doing to blockbuster cinema. Studios trying to desperately create lazy franchises as a result. That's why they're going to be so damaging to big budget filmmaking in the long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 30, 2019 Moderators Share Posted May 30, 2019 Weren't lazy franchises already a thing anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted May 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted May 30, 2019 Yeah, they always were. And the "Cinematic Universe" idea, for pretty much everyone but Marvel, is really no different to what Toho have done with the Godzilla franchise since the 1960s, and arguably just an extension of the "Frankenstein Vs. The Wolf-Man" Universal Monsters crossovers of the '50s. Marvel have just realised that they can do what they did with comic books, and make you feel like you need to have seen all of them to understand the new one. Like how old Spider-Man comics would have a line of dialogue with the foot-note, "see Incredible Hulk #62". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 30, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted May 30, 2019 24 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Weren't lazy franchises already a thing anyway? Of course, but not on the scale they're being done now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said: Of course, but not on the scale they're being done now. Yep, we've had shit with franchises, just look at horror films for the best examples, but I didn't need to catch up with Saw 5 to get the full gist of Friday The 13th part 42.  Even Freddy Vs Jason may have been a "Multiverse" type but you could watch it as a standalone if you like awful films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 30, 2019 Moderators Share Posted May 30, 2019 You can watch the comic films as standalone as well. I don't bother watching them all, just the ones that look appealing. I'm sure there's some things that might've sailed over my head bit nothing that materially impacted the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 5 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: You can watch the comic films as standalone as well. I don't bother watching them all, just the ones that look appealing. I'm sure there's some things that might've sailed over my head bit nothing that materially impacted the plot. I disagree. Â I've seen about half of the Marvel ones, mainly because my girlfriend is a fan, but I still had to ask her who characters were and their significance in the last two and why so and so didn't like each other etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 30, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted May 30, 2019 16 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: You can watch the comic films as standalone as well. Can you? I can't see how you could watch the most recent Avengers one without having seen the previous two, Captain Marvel and a bunch of other stuff from what I can gather, but ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 30, 2019 Moderators Share Posted May 30, 2019 Well obviously to watch Avengers you will need to have seen the other Avengers movies. They're sequels. But I don't think you need to have seen all the other characters' solo efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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