BunsenLabs film thread

Döbbie03 · 2022-11-16 06:34:06

I loved The Batman. Up in my top 3 Batman movies. I am really hoping they make a sequel.

Robert Pattison was great as Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Batman is my all time favourite comic book hero.

hhh · 2022-11-16 06:34:30

BTW, major Blade Runner influence in The Batman.

Döbbie03 · 2022-11-16 06:35:24

They had a very similar feel. I love how dark and dingy The Batman was. As it should be portrayed.

hhh · 2022-11-16 06:45:23

Similar pacing as well. Sssllllloooooooooowwww.

Döbbie03 · 2022-11-16 06:46:11

Slow but rewarding. I enjoyed both movies.

hhh · 2022-12-07 10:01:12

Watching Blade Runner 2049 for the second time, and I have to say my reaction is similar to the first time watching it. Slow, convoluted and BOOOORRRRIIIING! I realize it's intellectually superior to nearly everything else in recent times (who gets a Prokiev "Peter and the Wolf" reference these days?), but really? The reason the first one bombed was it was up against ET and the pacing was slooooowww.

So they fixed that by making the new one 10 times slower? With a much more convoluted plot that makes the first one (Final Cut version) seem positively zippy? Then throw in a bunch of obscured dialog that rewinding 10 times doesn't get you closer to what's being said? No wonder it bombed!

I have to say the same for Villeneuve's "Dune". Critical and commercial success, but I haven't made it through my first viewing yet because it is so slow, ugly drab cinematography and flat out boring. I go running to the Lynch film with all its flaws instead. A decent screenplay by Lynch. I can hear the dialog and monologues. Great actors. Brad mother f**cking Dourff. Beautiful cinematography, set designs and costuming. Crazy old school CGI that's not CGI. I'll forgive it for its glaring flaws, almost every great movie has flaws, and it's soooo much more entertaining to me than the new one.

A trusted friend recommended Sicario, but I'm just afraid of a Villeneuve film after those two cherished classics being remade by him.

el_koraco · 2022-12-07 10:11:35

hhh wrote:

A trusted friend recommended Sicario, but I'm just afraid of a Villeneuve film after those two cherished classics being remade by him.

Sicario is drab and slow too, but it really works there. I agree with you about the Bladerunner movie 100 percent and maybe like 95 percent about the Dune movie - Herbert's dialogues are so horrible that cutting out as much of them as possible is actually a good thing.

Sector11 · 2022-12-07 12:56:57

hhh wrote:

A trusted friend recommended Sicario, but I'm just afraid of a Villeneuve film after those two cherished classics being remade by him.

I quite enjoyed that one

But then I enjoyed both Bladerunners.

Döbbie03 · 2022-12-07 22:51:49

Just watching Dune Part One. Still one of my favourite recently released movies.

ratcheer · 2022-12-08 14:22:00

Dobbie03 wrote:

Just watching Dune Part One. Still one of my favourite recently released movies.

I hope it's a lot better than the film from the 1984. I had read the book twice, but I had very little idea what was going on in that movie.

PackRat · 2022-12-08 18:51:05

el_koraco wrote:

hhh wrote:
A trusted friend recommended Sicario, but I'm just afraid of a Villeneuve film after those two cherished classics being remade by him.
Sicario is drab and slow too, but it really works there. I agree with you about the Bladerunner movie 100 percent and maybe like 95 percent about the Dune movie - Herbert's dialogues are so horrible that cutting out as much of them as possible is actually a good thing.

Sicario is a good movie. I lived in that part of the US for a while; the movie and it's sequel get a lot of that right.

Döbbie03 · 2022-12-08 23:57:16

ratcheer wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
Just watching Dune Part One. Still one of my favourite recently released movies.
I hope it's a lot better than the film from the 1984. I had read the book twice, but I had very little idea what was going on in that movie.

I only have a passing acquaintance with the books but I was comfortably able to follow the storyline. I am just finishing up book 5 of GOT and I plan completing the first Dune book for the first time.

hhh · 2022-12-26 06:08:02

Lynch's Dune from 1984 is one of the best bad movies of all time! I'll fight you! BREAAAAKKKKK!!!!!

Watched Forbidden World (1983?) last night. It's a bad Alien ripoff. Talk about a good bad movie! Some fantastic retro sci-fi stuff in there. Lots of stealing from all sorts of other movies besides Alien.

Döbbie03 · 2022-12-26 06:10:10

hhh wrote:

Lynch's Dune from 1984 is one of the best bad movies of all time! I'll fight you! BREAAAAKKKKK!!!!!

I'll definitely fight you on that one. Shall we reconvene in the parking lot?

hhh · 2022-12-26 06:15:19

I'll need the Emperor's blade and a vinyl crotch thingy, some blonde hair dye and hair gel, and body oil. I WILL KILL HIM!

hhh · 2022-12-26 06:22:16

^ And I just listed some of the elements needed for a truly great bad movie. Add one of those shaved-looking cats duct taped to a mouse, a brilliant 7 year old girl actor, some really expensive sets and costumes, some really bad spaceship effects, and a giant slug thingy. And a floating fat man.

This movie is sounding better all the time. Are Max von Sydow, Brad Dourif, Dean Stockwell, Linda Hunt and Patrick Stewart, and Toto (the band) with Brian Eno all available?

I think I win this fight.

Döbbie03 · 2022-12-26 06:26:38

LOL. Indeed.

It was all fair until you brought Patrick Stewart in to it, though I see that Sting is suspiciously absent from your list there.

P.S. I wouldn't have included Sting either if I wanted to win a 1984 Dune vs. 2021 Dune fight either.

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hhh · 2022-12-27 05:59:13

Dobbie03 wrote:

... though I see that Sting is suspiciously absent from your list there.

Covered under "vinyl crotch thingy", "body oil" and "I WILL KILL HIM!!!"

Döbbie03 · 2022-12-27 06:03:13

hhh wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
... though I see that Sting is suspiciously absent from your list there.
Covered under "vinyl crotch thingy", "body oil" and "I WILL KILL HIM!!!"
Score, 1984 +1, Jared Leto -100.

Cover your ears, naughty words incoming, Jared Leto is a fucking tool.

I hate the fact he is in Bladerunner 2049. He's such a dick. It's got to the point where I generally will avoid movies he is in.

P.S. Dune Part I is still better than Dune 1984..........let me remind you why......Sting.

hhh · 2022-12-27 06:22:34

I edited my OP, because I was getting confused between BR and Dune. Sting is awesome, that's just the metal in you talking. He was trying to save the Amazon rainforest in the mid-eighties!

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