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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: April 03, 2017, 05:40:40 AM »

Legends doesn't seem to take anything seriously, and that's fine as long as we get Mick/Heatwave continuing to be the best thing about the show. He takes *nothing* seriously - except beer - and that shows. Also "seriously? you idiots haven't worked this out by now?" and "who writes this crap anyway?"

Also, the Legion of Doom is much better with all three just chewing the scenery together and almost constantly bickering about everything is everything Savage just wasn't.

The show, however, does need to set its rulebook out very clearly though.

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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: March 30, 2017, 05:13:56 PM »

I don't understand how JL plans to effectively introduce 3 "new" characters reintroduce Superman, bring them all together and deal with the plot in 2 hours 50.

I wonder if Black Lightning will be set in the Arrowverse?

Also, apparently Joss Whedon will be directing Batgirl?

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: March 26, 2017, 03:42:40 PM »

Saw Power Rangers last night with one of those free tickets they were dumping online a few nights back and...surprisingly, I quite enjoyed it. Half-decent writing & solid character building. I actually didn't mind that there's only maybe 20 or so minutes of actual Power Rangers in this movie. But...Krispy Kreme...oh god...the Krispy Kreme... -_-

That scene made me instantly think of Man of Steel and IHOP and how blatantly WE PAID MONEYS!!!! it was.

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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: March 26, 2017, 08:07:02 AM »

How is it most recent Marvel's movies use CGI but you can barely notice some times (most notably the civil war airport scene; only half the actors were actually on set) but whenever Snyder is filming its a massive overuse of CGI to the point where you're just looking at green screen everything?

And that doesn't count his love of mucky colours, "aggressive zooming" (there was at least one in that trailer) and, especially recently, just stuffing too much content together.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: March 25, 2017, 06:12:32 PM »

Hopefully this will prove why i'm loving the expanse so much (even though insanolord is now fully on board...).

Spoilers for the book 1 (all of season 1 and first third of season 2) in that video. Shohreh Aghdashloo is utterly on fire, and her voice is one of the most enchanting i've ever heard.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: March 24, 2017, 11:27:24 AM »

Legion - I'm not sure if i completely understand the series, but i'm just completely swept away by the incredible set design and production value. Aubrey Plaza as Lenny is on fire.

The Expanse - Avasarala is by far the best character on the show. She's the only character who has her eye on bigger things and will mercilessly cut down anyone who gets in her way.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: March 19, 2017, 05:46:32 AM »

The party scene was super unsettling for me because i had something like it recently. I'm pretty sure BNM and Stogi probably had similar experiences.

I can say this without spoilers, this is my 10th year with my movie pass and this is the first time ever that people in the audience actually screamed at the characters "no dont do that!" "just drive away!" "don't trust the bitch!" and even applauded three times at the end.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: March 19, 2017, 05:41:07 AM »

As much as i like Arrow, i get super annoyed every time Mister Terrific is on screen and his hair is braided and then the following daytime its out again (or vice versa).

That takes hours to do, and yet we never see Curtis with a mirror preparing (or even anyone around him capable of doing it). It's a jarring little point thats been a thing ever since he went out into the field.

So, pretty much like every Star Trek series.

Yes in a way, the stories begin to get longer and more arc driven from S2 and the characters stop being reset so much and actually begin to wear their flaws and issues over time. Your view on Garak is largely accurate though.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: March 18, 2017, 09:56:12 AM »

DS9 is very wonky in Season 1 and early S2, mainly because the show hasn't found its tone or footing yet but once it starts to get more confident it starts to veer off in its own direction.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: March 18, 2017, 09:48:45 AM »

Get Out was released yesterday. It's deeply deeply unsettling (although i can relate to lots of it!) but is a fantastic movie. I don't even know where to start with it.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: February 27, 2017, 04:20:19 AM »

The UK release date is March 17. I gotta wait a while

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Movies & TV / Re: Khushrenada's Annual Oscar Thread. 2017 Edition.

« on: February 27, 2017, 04:18:48 AM »

The Annual Scifi Snub continues as normal, i guess.

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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: February 26, 2017, 02:09:26 PM »

While Khush has mentioned the DC shows in detail, Blindspot is arguably the worst of them all under that umbella.

In season 1, two of the main characters (Zapata and Reade) are defined away from the main plot as Zapata having gambling problems and Reade dating his boss' sister - literally nothing else. These two are friends. In season 2, Reade he found out he was abused as a child by his football coach but he doesn't remember, and when he went to confront the coach he was found dead and Zapata found him over the body who helped to cover it up.

They later find out one of Reade's school friends did it (who was also abused but does remember). Reade finds a tape with his name on it (with many others), but doesn't watch it. Instead he helps his friend leave town, starts dating his friends now ex-girlfriend and is now taking drugs all while telling everyone else that "everything is fine".

"Spinning its wheels" is a mild way to put it. At least with the DC CW shows, some elements (like Curtis and Mister Terrific) are going slowly, pieces are falling into place and has plenty more storylines going to keep things going around it.

Just make him watch the tape, fall apart and show us the fallout rather than manage to stretch this out for the season.

Blindspot has the pieces to make this good, but instead its trying to stretch this out over a season for no reason. Zapata has no storyline of her own this season. Both only have something to do when required by the main plot, otherwise.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: February 26, 2017, 07:59:52 AM »

I just watched the most recent episode of The Expanse (season 2), which ends the first book. This could have been a season finale.... its THAT good. And this is only episode five!

I'll avoid complete spoilers but everything that has been setup since the pilot really come to a head in this episode.

It really helps that the writers of the books are the creators of the show, too.

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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: February 25, 2017, 05:33:09 AM »

Black Lightning may be joining the Berlanti-verse on The CW
http://deadline.com/2017/02/black-lightning-dc-comic-drama-move-the-cw-greg-berlanti-1201901139/

I guess it's been confirmed that Black Lightning is coming to the CW (taking Vamp Diaries place?)
and they also cast their lead
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cress-williams-set-as-black-lightning-cws-greg-berlanti-dc-drama-979515?utm_source=twitter

It this goes to series this will be the seventh Greg Berlanti (and his studio) has going (the four DC CW series, Blindspot and Riverdale). We won't really get an Arrow season 2 again because all of these shows are pulling for focus.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: February 23, 2017, 06:29:34 AM »

AOS was fantastic. Whenever Simmons is the main focus of an episode, the show dramatically improves.

This three-arc format works so much better for the show. And to think i nearly dropped the show back in S1. What a turnaround.

Simmons focused episodes have been quite the treat.

and the 3 arc leave for practically NO filler, so I really am loving this season as it all just seems so tight, focused and moving so fast. They really waste no time to get in and out of trouble, only to get in more and more again. They wrap up plots so quick, that they've literally been covering seasons worth of story lines in small season arcs. There better be a season 5 & six if this is to continue.

This at least has to last till Infinity War tie in of some sort. Send this off with a BANG!!!

Gotham has been using the same idea with Rise/Wrath of the Villains and Mad City, but AOS went one further and changes its titles to match the tone, breaks the season up with gaps in each arc and has a clear single throughline (the darkhold) to keep it all tied together. It all feels very connected but distinct from each other (in a good way)!

Jed Whedon has never directed before and he pulls out the best episode in the series on his first attempt. I'm reminded of how Jonah Nolan directed his first episode in Person of Interest's Relevance (in season 2) did the same thing and bested his more well known brother. The same has happened with AOS.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: February 22, 2017, 03:55:51 PM »

AOS was fantastic. Whenever Simmons is the main focus of an episode, the show dramatically improves.

This three-arc format works so much better for the show. And to think i nearly dropped the show back in S1. What a turnaround.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: February 22, 2017, 03:00:36 PM »

So last weekend i binged super hard (making full use of my cinema pass) and watched, over three days:

Hidden Figures
John Wick 2
Moonlight
Fences
The Great Wall

Hidden Figures, Moonlight and Fences all came out here last week. I realise the USA got them much earlier. All three, especially Moonlight, are fantastic films. Janelle Monae was in 2 of them, and she is just a delight (and so is her albums!).

Fences is 2 hours of Denzel and Viola Davis (two of the best actors on screen) absolutely tear it UP! Either one of them can act anyone else off the screen with no effort, but those two are just a force to be reckoned with.

John Wick was a great follow up with a unique twist on its own little universe. I'd have preferred it to be a little shorter, particularly the fight scenes, but it was a great world to jump back into. The scene BNM talks of is... something.

The Great Wall bore a lot of criticism for casting Matt Damon into what appeared to be a "white man saves another culture" like storyline, but in reality it didn't do that. His character stumbles into the events of the story by accident, and is told by other chinese characters that "they work because we trust each other". They even take this even further in the final battle by making him miss the shot, twice, to end the battle, and the chinese general has to do it herself.

But given the three "black movies" i watched over the same weekend, this was a good palate cleanser to turn my brain off to.

I'm coming up to the end of my 12 month period, but Arrival and Moonlight are my 2 favourite movies by a mile.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: February 20, 2017, 02:29:10 PM »

The Expanse is a fantastic series. Remarkably dense and rewarding loyalty, its the show that genuinely succeeds Person of Interest, BSG and DS9.

Although surpassing POI is a very high bar to cross going full-on serialisation like DS9 while on a US network is a risky ballsy move, Expanse is on a steady march into something special.

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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: February 15, 2017, 03:48:51 AM »

The Dark Knight trilogy is a bit of an outlier, especially in modern day action movies (not just comic book ones) because Nolan always opts for clarity and practical effects over 3D and both Nolan's prefer to write in slower, more literal terms (look at Person of Interest and Westworld...). Then it made a crapton of money and the studio liked their design and ran with it.

Thus no zany Snyder-edit cuts and zooming in aggressively to make something look stylish.

The best thing about Man of Steel was the soundtrack.

The Arrowverse's only weaknesses is the CW's love of soapy elements and in fight scenes (especially in Arrow and Legends) the use of stunt actors sticks out sometimes - the latter i don't mind really but you do actually see it. I'm fine with the CGI issues sometimes (like supergirl this week with the crane, but it's a TV budget!).

The DCCU's weakness is the filming style (much too aggressive black), the cart before the horse attitude (a whole bunch of characters appearing before they had a reason to be there, hence BVS), the horrible editing designed to hide the fight scenes as much as possible and the real lack of humour. Which is nearly everything except the actors.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: February 08, 2017, 05:27:55 PM »

Legends of Tomorrow - "who writes this crap anyway?" Rory went full-on Deadpool and the show is just better for it

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: I so want to run rampant through the rest of the forum in my new persona...

« on: February 02, 2017, 02:35:06 PM »

I thought the forum broke and we should collectively blame James Jessica Jones.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« on: January 25, 2017, 05:57:50 AM »

Lucifer is completely and utterly ridiculous, but the actors just jumped head first into it and is just a really funny show to just soak up because of it.

In terms of a primary storyline, AOS would win but in terms of just wanting the characters to hang out and watch the insanity unfold (which occasionally does... in the recent episode, Maze was sitting in Chloe's bedroom, munching on popcorn watching her have a sex dream) then Lucifer is better than all you listed.

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TalkBack / Re: Splatoon 2 Coming to Switch

« on: January 13, 2017, 10:18:16 AM »

I'm surprised they didn't call it Spla2oon.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch Launching March 3

« on: January 13, 2017, 09:03:05 AM »

£280, however, is too high. In current exchange rates that $350.