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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.

Intrigued by the pair of original movies by this Team OneOne studio. They seem to share the same universe maybe? Do people who follow the industry know more about these two movies?

There was. There is also a well known animated serie. I think, a bit like Lupin the 3rd, the serie is more light and comedic than the original manga? Never read the manga and only watched a bit of the serie back in the '90s (the french dub was notoriously goofy - with some quote becoming memes -...

Binged this show through the last few days. Never read the books. Enjoyed it. It's not amazing or anything, but in this type of stories with mysteries or some sort of hidden conspiracy it's critical to find the right pace at which to reveal things and I felt they did a good job with that. My...

Not sure were to put this, but a bunch of Super Mario Maker 1 players are racing to have all the levels ever uploaded to SMM beaten before Nintendo shuts the servers down on the 9th of April. Amazingly, they are down to just 8 levels at the time of writting! (A site was made to track the...

Well... that's a 2002 movie and we are in 2024, so it's been a while. Also, the last french films based on this are from the '60s. There was a more recent and popular TV show, but it still was in 1998! Time flies I guess.

If you clutch these pearls harder they might turn into diamonds.

As someone who saw it at the time of release, I am not sure I agree with this analysis. That being said, reception probably greatly varies based on your general exposure to anime and, more importantly, what range of anime you have been exposed to. In France and Italy for instance, anime have...

Brikker is the mother in law in the movie: "Oh! Are there Jews walking around?" "Oh no! these are girls from the neighbourhood. The Jews are on the other side of the wall"

It takes a certain kind of maestria to keep us at the edge of our seat with a movie that tells so little... and yet so much at the same time. Very impressive. It should be noted that it is an adaptation of a novel, except he basically removed all the fictional plot of the novel to keep tightly...

No idea, but if I had to guess I would say it's some anime opening or closing music.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of an american movie with a main character who is an author and the film being a back and forth between reality and the fictional world of the author that riffs on reality. I have not seen it, but The Lost City with Sandra Bullock plays out like that I...

I am a bit conflicted, because I wish I liked it more than I did. It is pretty damn cool on paper, but most of the episodes suffer from the classic "short story" syndrome: they are twice as long as they need to be. The pace is so glacial that, as soon as you lose a modicum of interest in the...