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I feel the opening of Casino Royale is the best intro of any Bond movie. From the trippy visuals, to Chris Cornell's fantastic vocals and the build up to reveal Daniel Craig's first portrayal as James Bond, all falls in place perfectly.
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Hobbs & Shaw (2019) | Review Megathread
Rotten Tomatoes: 77%, with averages 6.18 out of 10 and 34 Reviews Counted.Critics Consensus: Hobbs & Shaw doesn't rev as high as the franchise's best installments, but gets more than enough mileage out of its well-matched stars and over-the-top action sequences.Metacritic: 61 out of 100 with 18 Reviews CountedWritten ReviewsThe film's highly elaborate physical scenes and innumerable effects reflect the money said to have been spent, and they mostly pay off in action that's both visceral and amusing.Todd McCarthy - The Hollywood ReporterMake no mistake: “Hobbs & Shaw” is fun, but it’s so ludicrously over-the-top, it makes the comic-book logic of your average Marvel movie look reasonable by comparison.Peter Debruge - VarietyHobbs & Shaw is an action movie as a meme; the entire film is a self-effacing wink at the audience. It delivers to us what we want in a movie where Johnson and Statham are filmed 85% of the time in slow-motion: good dumb fun.Hoai-Tran Bui - SlashfilmIf you can ever be too fast or too furious, too banter-y or too bald, that’s a vanishing point that goes unrecognized in Hobbs & Shaw — a testosterone motherlode so relentlessly, ridiculously adrenalized, it doesn’t so much unfold as steadily defibrillate you.Leah Greenblatt - Entertainment WeeklySomewhere around the midpoint of Hobbs & Shaw, the action sequences become so elaborate that they start to weigh the movie down; it becomes less a lean machine than an unwieldy, chubby sausage. And even if you feel certain there’s no such thing as too much action, you surely know when you’ve had too much sausageStephanie Zacharek - TimeBut in trying to break free from being “Fast and Furious,” “Hobbs & Shaw” forgets to maintain the balance of insanity and heart that makes the series special.Brian Tuitt - USA TodayStrip away the meandering exposition and “Hobbs & Show” is an old-school screwball comedy that just happens to feature two major action stars.Eric Kohn - IndiewireVideo ReviewsJeremy JahnsChris StuckmannSteve Weintraub and Coy Jandreau - Collider Videos via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2KgrgYb
Leonardo DiCaprio & Quentin Tarantino Break Down Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Main Character
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Amazon Prime mixed up 'The Wailing' 2008 and 'The Wailing' 2016 and it has led me down a bizarre rabbit hole
Amazon tricked me into renting a movie and I can't find any info on it.I put The Wailing on my short list of horror flicks after it got 99% on RT. As a rule I go into movies blind so that's all I knew - a 2016 Korean horror flick with stellar reviews. Sold!It just popped up in Prime's recommendations so I rented it. The 2008 release date seemed off but the reviews clearly mentioned a 2016 Korean horror film. Maybe 2016 was the US release date?Nope! The movie I got was a 4:3 retro horror movie made to look like a crummy VHS transfer of an early 80s ghost story flick.THIS is the correct 2016 film. Note that it shows the same reviews as the 2008 page so there's obviously a data mix-up happening.So what the heck is this 2008 movie? I DON'T KNOW.It's not on IMDB. I can't find any articles about it. The 'director' listed on Amazon is 'CreateSpace' which appears to be a now defunct self-publishing platform.Now I'm fascinated. Anyone know who made this thing?Edit: I've watched 40 minutes now and while it's not exactly good it's an impressively faithful nostalgia project. They've nailed the tone and the production values of the period without tipping into absurdity - the Italian-style dubbing is especially accurate. You could actually mistake it for the real thing if you stumbled across it in the wild, unlike (say) Kung-Fury. If I'd produced it I'd want some credit!Edit 2: I am beginning to doubt my sanity. This has to be an Italian movie shot in the 80s, it's just too perfect to be an imitation. But what kind of official transfer would be so sloppy? It opens with 'SP' displayed in the screen corner and comically bad VHS tracking, which I naturally assumed was part of the aesthetic gag. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2LNWU2F
Revisiting the film 15 years later, The Village is a much more impressive film than it was back in 2004. Unfortunately, time has also made some of the film’s flaws even more apparent.
July 30th marks the 15th anniversary of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village. It was Shyamalan’s fourth film, coming off the critical and box office successes of 1998’s The Sixth Sense, 2000’s Unbreakable, and 2002’s Signs. At that point in his career, Shyamalan’s name was synonymous with high-quality commercial thrillers, making The Village one of the most highly-anticipated films of 2004. However, upon its release, the film was met with bewilderment from both critics, as well as the average moviegoer, with its multiple plot twists leaving audiences angry and cheated. This sparked the decline in Shyamalan’s career, which would continue to plummet until 2015’s The Visit. Revisiting the film 15 years later, The Village is a much more impressive film than it was back in 2004. Unfortunately, time has also made some of the film’s flaws even more apparent. On its anniversary, it is time to revisit the most underrated film in Shyamalan’s filmography. The inhabitants of Covington live a peaceful life in 19th century Pennsylvania. They eat dinners together at a communal table that accommodates every member of the town. Their days are spent working to make the best lives for themselves and their fellow neighbors. Their only major sources of concern are the tall and imposing red-cloaked creatures referred to as “Those We Don’t Speak Of,” who dwell in the woods just outside Covington. Although the town’s residents try to appease the beings by entering the woods only to deliver slaughtered animals as a form of payment for safety, the menacing humanoids seem to be getting closer and closer. The people of Covington must decide how to contend with their threatening, imposing visitors, while keeping everyone unharmed.In the first act, the true star of The Village comes out: cinematographer Roger Deakins. The dark and dreary setting of Covington is captured masterfully by Deakins. Shot from a distance, every scene takes on an almost voyeuristic quality. Characters conversations occur in the distant foreground, with no attempt to move the camera closer. This creates a wonderful tension. Often, filmmakers will push the shot in close, creating a sense of claustrophobic worry. Here, Deakins and Shyamalan choose to show how unprotected the members of Covington are. It is incredibly effective at setting an ominous tone.Unfortunately, the first act is too rushed. Characters are painted in the most basic and obvious ways. Joaquin Phoenix plays Lucius Hunt, a timid young man who hides behind a piece of paper as he reads to the town’s council all the ways in which he intends to help his fellow neighbors. Adrien Brody plays Noah Percy, another young man in Covington with a nonspecific mental health issue. Percy alternates between playful lucidity and erratic behavior for no clear reasons. Then there is Bryce Dallas Howard as Ivy Elizabeth Walker, a young woman who doesn’t let her blindness keep her from being an outspoken individual in the community. There is no real attempt to make audiences truly connect with the inhabitants of Covington. In its quest to get to the suspense, we don’t connect all that much with anybody except Ivy. It is difficult to worry about ghouls attacking the town if we don’t have a reason to root for them. Not gonna post the full 2k word writeup on the legacy and twist of the films so no one is spoiled but for those who are interested in the full read: A Trip Back to 'The Village" 15 years later. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3312bJy
If you loved Hereditary, check out the korean horror The Wailing
I just watched Hereditary and I loved it. Immediately after finishing it I thought of The Wailing. If you need another movie like Hereditary, The Wailing will scratch that itch.The Wailing is about a policeman who investigates a series of mysterious killings and illnesses. It's a slow burn, like Hereditary. Beautifully directed and with a more satisfying, shocking ending, in my opinion.The movies both share the obsession with the occult, with possession and demons, with rituals and old fairytales.But while Hereditary gives a clear cut of what the ending is, The Wailing leaves it more ambiguous who the real bad guy is, which makes for a better ending imo.Bottom line, definitely check out The Wailing and suggest some other movies like these two: via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2YtDS3s
