2025 movies

[mmbtvs]

Originally Posted by rms13

Gravity was 12 years ago. The only reason people watched Birdbox was because it was on Netflix.

You said she hasn't been relevant in 25 years. So both are valid.

[Brobocop]

Originally Posted by mmbtvs

You said she hasn't been relevant in 25 years. So both are valid.

They are going down with the ship over admitting they might have been wrong. Love to see it.

[mmbtvs]

Originally Posted by Brobocop

They are going down with the ship over admitting they might have been wrong. Love to see it.

Fortitude at it's finest yes sir!

[cdub6238]

Originally Posted by cdub6238

Welp..how about this then..

Love Hurts...dropped in theaters 02/07...will now be available to rent on Tuesday via VOD..

Not streaming for free...but still, 2.5 weeks?? Yikes lol

Man..the window keeps getting shorter and shorter lol

Last Breath, with Woody Harrelson..released 02/28...VOD 03/18

Riff Raff, with Pete Davidson, Gabrielle Union, Bill Murray..released 02/28...VOD, 03/21

Also...who the hell...asked for Spinal Tap 2 this year??

[rms13]

Originally Posted by cdub6238

Also...who the hell...asked for Spinal Tap 2 this year??

Spinal Tap is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love those actors. But Reiner is 78, Guest and McKean are 77 and Shear is 81. I hope it's good but I could see it going very badly.

[jdandns]

Plenty of people from the first one besides the main cast stayed alive long enough to at least cameo in the one, too.
A sense of humor keeps you young.
11/10

[sauceboy]

I liked Mickey 17, but I understand why some people didn't/wouldn't care for it.

[pejc300]

Originally Posted by jmarascojr

Kraven will be hitting Netflix on 3/13, guess it WAS as bad as everyone said it was, but I'm still gonna check it out...

I actually really liked Kraven. Saw it in theaters, despite the negative reviews. Sometimes I think it just becomes trendy to say a movie is terrible, and then that becomes the accepted opinion, without a lot of basis.

[jmarascojr]

Originally Posted by pejc300

I actually really liked Kraven. Saw it in theaters, despite the negative reviews. Sometimes I think it just becomes trendy to say a movie is terrible, and then that becomes the accepted opinion, without a lot of basis.

Watched it last night, thought it was ok, glad I didn't pay money to watch it in a theatre...

They obviously left it open for a second movie, but not sure with all the negativity it received that anybody would put the time and/or money into a second one...

Looks like Den of Thieves 2 will be hitting Netflix shortly, that'll be my next movie to watch...

[cdub6238]

Originally Posted by pejc300

I actually really liked Kraven. Saw it in theaters, despite the negative reviews. Sometimes I think it just becomes trendy to say a movie is terrible, and then that becomes the accepted opinion, without a lot of basis.

Originally Posted by jmarascojr

Watched it last night, thought it was ok, glad I didn't pay money to watch it in a theatre...

They obviously left it open for a second movie, but not sure with all the negativity it received that anybody would put the time and/or money into a second one...

Looks like Den of Thieves 2 will be hitting Netflix shortly, that'll be my next movie to watch...

I don't think it deserved all the hate it got.

Sure it was a little meh how he got powers, and was definitely cringe worthy at times watching the cgi on said powers..

But it was a legit decent story...and I actually liked what they did with Rhino...and the tease at the end with Chameleon..just a shame we won't get more

[rms13]

The Electric State in Netflix is garbage. I hung with it until the last 39 minutes and I couldn't take it anymore. I can't believe they spent $300 million on that. The premise feels lazy. There doesn't feel like enough believable motivation for the main character to even get involved in the quest yet it only takes about a minute for the character to be convinced.

[Corporal Lance]

I am excited for Spinal Tap 2.

I am also excited to watch the implosion of Snow White.

[Brobocop]

Originally Posted by Corporal Lance

I am excited for Spinal Tap 2.

I am also excited to watch the implosion of Snow White.

I predict Snow White has a rough opening weekend but legs out to okay numbers. Lilo and Stitch will make up whatever losses Snow White incurs and then some.

[Corporal Lance]

Originally Posted by Brobocop

I predict Snow White has a rough opening weekend but legs out to okay numbers. Lilo and Stitch will make up whatever losses Snow White incurs and then some.

I predict you will be wrong.

[jdandns]

I'm one of the 10 people or so who saw "Opus", the new horror movie from A24 that came out Friday. This one landed (although barely) on the top 10 list of worst openings for any film debuting on over 1,500 screens, grossing only 1 million total for the weekend.

I'm in the A24 club, so I get a free ticket opening weekend to all of their movies. I guess the hope is you'll take someone with you, and if the movie's actually good, provide some positive word of month early on from someone who has actually seen it. Well, I did take someone with me, so we did buy one ticket at least, and I can say it was worth watching if only for Malkovich's terrific turn.

It stars Ayo Edebiri (from "The Bear") as a young journalist and John Malkovich as a reclusive 90's music megastar who suddenly announces plans to release a new album after 30 years away from the limelight. To promote it, he invites a selected group of people (an online influencer, a print media publisher, an Entertainment Tonight-type TV anchor, a music critic, a papparazi photographer, and the young writer) to his compound, which is staffed by few hundred cult-like followers. As the weekend goes on and increasingly strange things occur, the artist's real plan takes shape and his motivation is revealed only at the very end as the picture fades to black. There's a lot of "Midsommar" vibes in this one.

Malkovich is terrific in a role that essentially required an acting master to play while Edebiri was also perfectly cast, given the many "what the -?" moments she has to react to. Still, I never saw much advertising for this one, and it is a slow burn at the start, so it was kind of up against it to do well.

A24 and MAX have a deal in place, so I imagine it'll be streaming there sooner than later if you want to check it out, as I imagine that 1,764 screen release will drop to near zero by this Friday after the first weekend returns.

[rms13]

Originally Posted by Brobocop

I predict Snow White has a rough opening weekend but legs out to okay numbers. Lilo and Stitch will make up whatever losses Snow White incurs and then some.

All the early reviews say it's the best Disney live action remake ever! Of course they are all from the critics hand selected by Disney to see it early which means they have to right a positive review.

It's probably mediocre at best. I hate the politics of the two stars and of the studio and I hate that every movie has to be a pollical debate these days. But I also have an elementary school age kid and I know that on any given week there is 1 or 2 movies in the theater at best that are suitable to take younger kids to. The weather is also bad in much of the country this time of year so I'm sure there will be a lot of parents taking their kids to the movie next weekend and Snow White and King of Kings are the only movies in theater suitable for younger audiences. Some Christian families will probably go to see King of Kings and they are part the demographic of people that will be "boycotting" Snow White anyway. The rest of the people with kids will be watching Snow White and it will make plenty of money.

[jdandns]

It'll be tough for it to beat the live-action "Aladdin" in terms of quality, but with "Mickey 17" still holding on to 1st place after two weeks despite only 7.5 million in its second weekend, "Snow White" is set up to do very well indeed its premiere week.

After "Snow White And The Three Stooges", "Mirror Mirror" with Julia Roberts, and "Snow White and the Huntsmen" with Kristen Stewart, it's about time the animated Disney version is finally getting the live-action treatment.

It's not the kind of movie I usually go to the cinema for, but I like the previous work from its songwriters ("La La Land", "Greatest Showman", "Dear Evan Hansen", and the terrific "Aladdin" mentioned above) so I might see it on the big-screen as opposed to catching it on Disney+ like I normally would.

I'll give a review here if I actually do.

[patchgenie]

just watched Better Man. this movie is pretty good. a good Robbie Williams biopic. its on prime now.

[rms13]

Originally Posted by patchgenie

just watched Better Man. this movie is pretty good. a good Robbie Williams biopic. its on prime now.

The monkey movie as it's known

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by patchgenie

just watched Better Man. this movie is pretty good. a good Robbie Williams biopic. its on prime now.

I don't have Prime, but it's also on Paramount+, so I'll check it out there.
I see it comes in at a healthy 135 minutes, continuing the recent trend of longer movies.

[rms13]

Better Man was being discussed at work the other day and nobody under 30 has ever heard of Robbie Williams. Not shocking as he was never that popular in the US. I'm old enough to remember when Millennium came out in 1999 and got a lot of airplay on MTV when they still played videos. But I couldn't name another one of his songs. Never the less, I've heard nothing but good things about the movie.

[duwal]

Originally Posted by rms13

All the early reviews say it's the best Disney live action remake ever! Of course they are all from the critics hand selected by Disney to see it early which means they have to right a positive review.

It's probably mediocre at best. I hate the politics of the two stars and of the studio and I hate that every movie has to be a pollical debate these days. But I also have an elementary school age kid and I know that on any given week there is 1 or 2 movies in the theater at best that are suitable to take younger kids to. The weather is also bad in much of the country this time of year so I'm sure there will be a lot of parents taking their kids to the movie next weekend and Snow White and King of Kings are the only movies in theater suitable for younger audiences. Some Christian families will probably go to see King of Kings and they are part the demographic of people that will be "boycotting" Snow White anyway. The rest of the people with kids will be watching Snow White and it will make plenty of money.

wait, why would Christian people be boycotting Snow White?

[rms13]

Originally Posted by duwal

wait, why would Christian people be boycotting Snow White?

They tend to be conservatives and part of the group of anti woke crowd. And one of the many issues people have had with this movie over the past couple of years is the woke aspect having a Latina Snow White and originally having the merry group of non binary companions replacing the dwarves. But I'm sure plenty of Jewish and Muslim groups will be boycotting the movie as well because of the the two stars. But I think the majority of the people that will be the target audience won't care about any of those issues and will see it because they have kids or they are adult Disney nuts.

[Ty Hope]

Didn’t help that that Rachel crapped all over the original many, many times.
Calling it “weird”, saying the prince is a stalker, calling it problematic, etc.
It’s a beloved classic and the movie that literally made Disney. Walt bet it all on that movie. She comes across as narcissistic and extremely unlikable in interviews.

Then there’s the hypocrisy over race. Look at the new Lilo and Stitch trailer and how the same people that have no problem with a Snow White race swap are going nuts saying that Nani is “too white.” They make up the rules as they go along. Nothing makes sense.

Add in the controversy from Peter Dinkledge (spelling?) and the CGI dwarves.

This movie is the perfect storm of train wrecks.

[rms13]

Originally Posted by Ty Hope

Didn’t help that that Rachel crapped all over the original many, many times.
Calling it “weird”, saying the prince is a stalker, calling it problematic, etc.
It’s a beloved classic and the movie that literally made Disney. Walt bet it all on that movie. She comes across as narcissistic and extremely unlikable in interviews.

Then there’s the hypocrisy over race. Look at the new Lilo and Stitch trailer and how the same people that have no problem with a Snow White race swap are going nuts saying that Nani is “too white.” They make up the rules as they go along. Nothing makes sense.

Add in the controversy from Peter Dinkledge (spelling?) and the CGI dwarves.

This movie is the perfect storm of train wrecks.

ye

Yes. But I still think parents with young kids and adult Disney fans will see it and it will make at least enough to not be a flop.